 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 páginas
...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 ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd nor wished to change his place : Unpractical he to fawn or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | Robert Pollok - 1843 - 110 páginas
...seeketh his happiness apart from thee ! He shall be miserably disappointed. CHAPTER II. ' Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour, Far other aims his heart had learned to pri/.e, More skilled to raise the wretched, than to rise To... | |
 | 1843 - 486 páginas
...following lines, he so pleasingly to the very life describes the worthy rural divine — Unpractised he to fawn or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour, Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. To... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1843 - 278 páginas
...these incidents was of a kind directly opposite to that which they had produced on Swift. " Unskilful he to fawn or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour." So far, indeed, from abating in the least of his warmth of attachment for the party of his early choice,... | |
 | 1844 - 320 páginas
...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...e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place: Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 páginas
...the place disclose, The village pastor's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote...towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change his place : Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 páginas
...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 ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd nor wished to change his place: Unpractic'd he to fawn or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 páginas
...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 ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place ; Unpractis'd he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - 1844 - 274 páginas
...modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a-year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place. Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; For other aims... | |
 | Gregory Godolphin - 1844 - 260 páginas
...but he was satisfied with the honor that he did receive, and neither sought nor cared for greater. " Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed nor wished to change his place." One of our oldest colleges conferred upon him the degree of DD, but he meekly declined it, deeming... | |
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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... 
