 | Education - 1866 - 314 pages
...He thus describes a school in his times: " In every village marked with little spire, Embalmed with trees and hardly known to fame, There dwells in lonely shed and mean attire A matron old whom we school mistress name, Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame, ******** For not a wind might curl... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...weeping hermit there. 99 SHENSTONE'S highest effort was his Schoolmistress. Here is an extract : — 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... | |
 | National gallery - 1869 - 208 pages
...ft. 2£ in. w. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1836. VERNON COLLECTION. No. 427. A DAME'S SCHOOL. " In every village marked with little spire, Embowered...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... | |
 | Mark Mills Pomeroy - American wit and humor - 1869 - 292 pages
...Brick, say—• "In every village marked with litue spire, Embowered in trees and hardly known to fame, A matron old, whom we school-mistress name, Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame/' Taming is good—tanning would be better! We think of the past—of the little boyish days when, just... | |
 | Mark Mills Pomeroy - American wit and humor - 1869 - 300 pages
...Brick, say — " In every village marked with little spire, Embowere^ in trees and hardly known to fame, A matron old, whom we school-mistress name, "Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame." Taming is good — tanning would be better 1 We think of. the past — of the little boyish days when,... | |
 | Mark Mills Pomeroy - American wit and humor - 1869 - 300 pages
...love do more I " How truly did Shenstone, who being a She.n-stone, was harder than a Brick, say — " In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees and hardly known to fame, A matron old, whom we school-mistress name, Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame." Taming is... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Richard M. Smith, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John Patrick McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - Education - 1872 - 650 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 yagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...merit, ere it dies ; Such as I oft have chanced to espy, Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. 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... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1893 - 990 pages
...tool, the more skill needed in its safe use.4 The dame's school needed nothing better than Shenstone's Matron old, whom we schoolmistress name, Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame. fore another school was started. His own finally failed for lack of support. Previous to the rejection... | |
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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... 
