 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 pages
...meaning of every or each : as, " They cost five shillings a dozen ;" that is, " every dozen." " A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year." Golthmttt. that is, " every year." There is a particular use of the indefinite article, which deserves... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...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...to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had leam'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...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...to the varying hour : Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 pages
...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...change his place ; " Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, " By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; " Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize,... | |
 | John Skinner - 1809 - 694 pages
...Scotland, and who answered most literally to Goldsmith's description of the " Village Preacher :" " A man he was to all the country dear, " And passing rich...e'er had chang'd, — nor wish'd to change, his place !" The Reverend JOHN SKINNER, for nearly fir years Minister of the Episcopal Congregation in Longside... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...TlicrtMuere a few torn shrub* the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he rail his godly race, Xor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place : I'oskilful he to fawn,... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...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...Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashiou'd to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learu'd to prize, More bent to raise the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pages
...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...race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, hi* Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, [place; By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, Tin- village preacher's modest mansion row. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had cbang'd, nor wish'd to change, bit Unskilful lie to fawn, or seek for pow'r, [place; By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pages
...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...towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'dto change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying... | |
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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... 
