| Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...merit, ere it dies ; Such as I oft have chaunced to espy, Lost in the dreary shades of dull ohscurity. In every village marked with little spire, Embowered...trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we School-mistress name ; Who boasts unruly brats with... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to Fame. There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress...tame ; They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the power of this relentless dame, And ofttimes, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair, or... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...village mark'd with little spire, F.mbower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed, and mean attire, A matron old, whom we school-mistress name ; Who boasts unruly brats witli birch to tamej They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed by the power of this relentless... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to Fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress...tame ; They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the power of this relentless dame, And ofttimes, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair, or... | |
| English language - 1855 - 172 pages
...awaken fear. Does the keen look cow at times ? ONE HUNDRED AND FORTIETH STUDY. ACTIONS OF THE TEACHER. " IN every village marked with little spire, Embowered...trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we schoolmistress name." TEACH, to point out; to give... | |
| Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to Fame, There dwells in lowly shed, and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress...tame ; They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the power of this relentless dame ; And ofttimes, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair,... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...village mark'tl with little spire, Embower'J in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed, and mean attire, A matron old, whom we school-mistress...Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame ; They gricveu sore, in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the pow'r of this relentless dame ; And oft-times, on... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...merit ere it dies ; Such as I oft have ehanoƩd to espy, Loet in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. r lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name, Who boasts unruly brats with... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly I tome ; They grievon sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed by the power of this relentless dame, And ofttimes,... | |
| John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...it dies; Such as I oft have chanced to espy, Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. 25* (298) In every village marked with little spire, Embowered...trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed, and mean attire, A matron old, whom we schoolmistress name; Who boasts unruly brats with... | |
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