 Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy 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...  Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's ... - Page 114by Elegant poems - 1814Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way With blosgom'd furze, uoprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught bis little school : A man severe he was, and stern to view, 1 knew him well, and every truant knew;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pages
...storm Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. * Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With...furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skili'd to rule, The village master taught his little school; A man severe be was, and stern to view,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...*' storm, Tho' round its brest the rolling clouds are. spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way '...view, • "^ I knew him well, and every truant knew; WTell hud the boding tremblers learn'd to trace,", j The day's disasters in his morning face; Full... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With...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 - 1814 - 424 pages
...press'd, Shall kiss the cup, to pass it to the rest. IV — Character of a Country School Master — IB. BESIDE yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With...gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, ' i The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - Elocution - 1815 - 340 pages
...grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face. Character of a Country Schoolmaster. — GOLDSMITH. BESIDE yon straggling fence that skirts the way. With...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... | |
 | Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont, C. Sneyd Edgeworth - France - 1815 - 250 pages
...The * In this bouse Oliver Goldsmith received the ludimcnts «f education from Mr. Patrick Hughes : " A man severe he was, and stern to view, " I knew him well, and every truant knew." children of Mr. Edgeworth, the proprietor of Edgeworthstown, and their little cousins, were allowed... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 pages
...the storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way With...severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and ev'ry truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...manfion fkill'd to rule, The village mafter taught his little fchool. A man fevere he was, and ftern to view\ I knew him well, and every truant knew. Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's difafters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd, with counterfeited... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggting fence that skirts the vray With blossom 'd furze, unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion,...little school : A man severe he was, and stern to view, 1 knew him well, and ev'ry truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters... | |
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