...had been present, the Poet has painted with fearful accuracy what his father's house was to be — " Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And...disclose, The Village Preacher's modest mansion rose." And we contemplate the realization of the melancholy scene as we do the poem of the unfortunate Falconer,...

...had been present, the Poet has painted with fearful accuracy what his father's house was to be — ' Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled. And...disclose, The village Preacher's modest mansion rose.' " Set LIFE, vol. 1. p. 19. THE BEE. [The BEE, a weekly paper, commenced October the 6th, and terminated...

...and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And...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...

...reverend, champion, and faltering in no. 6 ; even in no. 7 ; serious in no. 8 THE VILLAGE PREACHER. I NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And...There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, ":.« village preacher's modest mansion rose. 2. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing...

...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plai . Near yonder copse, where once the arden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...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...

...several of her descendants reside in the village.] Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose.(l) A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from...

...easy. In his pretty poem " The Deserted Village," Goldsmith says of the wreck of the Parsonage house, " There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village Preacher's modest mansion rose." But far more modest, far more fearful of the public gaze, is the venerable Council Hall of ancient...

...than a matter of finding things. There's wood to be cut. Come along.' HOWARD SPRING (1889—1965) 52. 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 forty pounds a year; Remote from towns...

...miserly pay. Goldsmith's preacher bears a strong resemblance to Chaucer's Parson in The Canterbury Tales. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And...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...

...readers will think the following extracts tedious. 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. This is a fine natural stroke — We see the 'copse,' the 'torn shrubs,' and the ' scatter' d flowers.'...