 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...merit ere it dies ; Such as I oft have chanced to espy, Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. b + lowly shed, and mean attire, A matron old, whom we schoolmistress name ; Who boasts unruly brats with... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...morrow; Naught may endure but mutability. WILLIAM SHENSTONE. STANZAS FROM "THE SCHOOLMISTRESS." Is 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... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 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 pow'r of this rebellious dame, And oft-times on vagaries idly bent, For uuknempt hair,... | |
 | 1835 - 416 pages
...Appelles? If she will, take her — I give thee thy life and Campaspe. [GREY.] THE SCHOOL MISTRESS. 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 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 School-mistress...tame ; They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the power of this relentless dame; And oft-times, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 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 School-mistress...tame ; They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the power of this relentless dame ; And oft-times, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair,... | |
 | Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee - Conduct of life - 1837 - 158 pages
...importance. We doubt if Shenstone's school-mistress can now anywhere be found in our part of the country : ' 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. Her cap far whiter than the... | |
 | 1837 - 206 pages
...village marked with little spire, Embowered with 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 youth with care to tame. They sometimes grieve to be in schoolroom pent, Awed by the power of this... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1839 - 342 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...unruly brats with birch to tame They grieven sore, in piteouc durance pent, Awed by the power of this relentless dame ; And oft-times, on vagaries idly bent,... | |
 | Fashion - 1845 - 472 pages
...as food for contemplation : and when the child has left the fostering care, and has escaped from " A matron old, whom we schoolmistress name, Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame !" and has passed through the " boys' school," at length issuing to " win his fortune in a world of... | |
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In every 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 name : Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame... 
