 | Book - 1841 - 164 lehte
...marble with a tear, — He who preserv'd them — Pitt, lies here ! WALTER SCOTT. tjfjr CCountrj parson. NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden-flow'r grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 lehte
...the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left, of all the...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 disclose,... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 lehte
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild. There,...a few torn shrubs 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... | |
 | 1845 - 614 lehte
...the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the...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 disclose,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 lehte
...the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plui . Near yonder copse, where once the arden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 lehte
...example: But times are altered; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; . . . She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. His house was known to all the vagrant train; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain; .... | |
 | Edward Hungerford Goddard - 1869 - 842 lehte
...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... | |
 | Donna Landry - 1990 - 344 lehte
...the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.2 (Oliver. Goldsmith, The Deserted Village) On those occasions when the laboring woman has appeared... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 lehte
...speaker encounters an old beggar-woman, who evidently reminds him of the real people who have gone: "She only left of all the harmless train, / The sad historian of the pensive plain" (lines 135 - 36). This last line is the key and was early recognized as such, being chosen for illustration... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 lehte
...cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shade, and weep till mom ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. This is indeed a passage of uncommon merit. The circumstances it describes are obvious in nature, but... | |
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She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the 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 disclose, The village preacher's... 
