 | Marshall Brown - 1997 - 372 pagina’s
...frontispiece, "The sad historian of the pensive plain" (136). His "flowery tale" replaces the village garden: "Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, / And still where many a garden flower grows wild" (137-38). His reiterated "sweet" is even more emphatic in Goldsmith; his lovers' chase, his empty town,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pagina’s
...the whisp'ring wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. 4153 The Deserted Village A man _ z | NN8 5+Ao @%m Ţ ѭ _ 4~7 r X i 1} ͒ v c ^ $ , 00 t Ex 1 9 * 4 1 54 The Deserted Village He chid their wand'rings, but relieved their pain. 4 1 55 The Deserted... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 662 pagina’s
...train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. 80 Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd. And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There,...a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's'4 modest mansion rose. nie the loud laugh of the village simpleton. 12. In eighteenth-century... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 2000 - 324 pagina’s
...THE VILLAGE PREACHER From the 'Deserted Village 1 NEAE yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change, his place Unpractis'd he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the... | |
 | Sean Dunne - 1957 - 496 pagina’s
...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden-flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place...e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims... | |
 | Mavis Cheek - 2002 - 356 pagina’s
...was a pragmatist and now here she was, a romantic. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild. There...disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. 'Royal land/ said Mrs Perry. 'Never to be built on.' She came and stood by Angela. 'And we own that... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pagina’s
...faggot from the thorn, She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And...e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims... | |
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Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with... 
