 | Will Jones - Clergy - 1845 - 720 pages
...Somersetshire, furnished him a title for orders. He remained there as curate about twelve months. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.f In that church he preached his first sermon on June 20th, 1773, from 1 Cor. ii. 1, 2, which... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 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 forty pounds a-year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, 1Vor e'er had chang'd, nor wiah'dt change his place;... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 626 pages
...pardons, if you have no particular objections, I will light my sheroot," &c. &c. &c. Vot. VIII. FF A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a-year. GOLDSMITH'S DESERTED VILLAOE. 355 RS. DODS'S conviction, that her friend Tyrrel had been murdered... | |
 | Cass Grove Barns - History - 1970 - 312 pages
...recording what he told me I become an interested bystander, only one degree removed. CHAPTER XVI A Pioneer Preacher "A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year." — CMdmith. EV. Charles Wesley Wells, a Methodist minister, gave many interesting experiences he had... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Fiction - 1982 - 228 pages
...pounds a year: cf. Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), where the local vicar is described as: '. . . to all the country dear, /And passing rich with forty pounds a year. . .' (Collected Works, IV, p. 293, ll. 141-2). The portrait goes on to describe his fixity, integrity... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - English prose literature - 1989 - 276 pages
...self-perceived, his life corresponds to a perennial ideal, from Chaucer on down, of the rural parson who is "to all the country dear, / And passing rich with forty pounds a year" (Deserted Village, 11. 141-42.). Loss and death do of course occur in Selborne, but always in a context... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - Social Science - 260 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...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...remaining vestige of what was once a garden, is always the ' garden flower that grows wild.' A man he was, to all the country dear, And passing rich...year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor o'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place . . . The benevolent mind cannot but yield its hearty... | |
 | Edward Copeland - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 316 pages
...Plumptre admits, "what was beauty to a man who could just but live" (1, 5). Goldsmith's nostalgic curate, "to all the country dear, / And passing rich with forty pounds a year, " retreats even farther into the mythic past as keen-eyed women writers address the matter of the competence.... | |
 | Catherine Parr Strickland Traill - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 414 pages
...Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village," 1770, 1. 142. The poet described the "village preacher" as a man "to all the country dear, / And passing rich with forty pounds a year." See Collected Works Of Oliver Goldsmith. Vol. 4. 1966, p. 293. 200.25-29 the words of Ruth... me']... | |
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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... 
