 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1825 - 160 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...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 - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...Eternal sunshme settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom' d furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion,...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 - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...Schoolmaster. BESIDE yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze, unprofitably gay. ••1 There, in his noisy mansion skill'd to rule, The village...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 Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...breast the rolling elouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fenee ugh his own side His fiery way divide sehool. A man severe he was, and stem to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew ; Well had the... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 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...stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew ; AVell had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...amounted to L.4000. " Was," says Johnson, " ever poet so trusted before?" THE VILLAGE SCHOOLMASTER. BESIDE yon straggling fence, that skirts the way With...There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village-master taught his little school. — A man severe he was, and stem to view ; I knew him well... | |
 | John Barber - Elocution - 1828 - 310 pages
...Fresh as the welling waters, round him rise, Gladdening "his spirit. COUNTRY SCHOOLMASTER. "GOLDSMITH." Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way With...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,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...IV. — Character of a Country Schoolmaster. — IB. BESIDE yon straggling fence that skirts the W'tb blossom'd furze, unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy...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, and counterfeited... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. , THE VILLAGE SCHOOLMASTER AND THE VILLAGE INN. 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... | |
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