 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 807 pages
...mansion, skill'd to rule! The village master taught his little school: A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well...had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in bis morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821
...the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. t A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learn' d to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822
...mansion, skill'd to rule, The village-master taught his little school : A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew ;...had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822
...mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school: A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well...had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Westall - 1822 - 154 pages
...mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school : A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learn 'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 372 pages
...mansion skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little School. A man severe he was, and stern to view : I knew him well, and every truant knew....had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face : Full well they laugh'd, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes —... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 822 pages
...mansion skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern s all internal strength of thought; And the weak soul,...within itself unblest, Leans for all pleasure on a disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 131 pages
...mansion sfcjll'd to rule, The village master taught his little school ; A man severe he was. and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew. Well had the boding tremblers leam'il to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh 'd with counterfeited... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825
...mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school : A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew ;...had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 299 pages
...mansion skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew....had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes,... | |
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Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant... 
