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" A father, and the nymph his child. That innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind her book, Was but the master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy. "
The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and ... - Page 288
by Jonathan Swift - 1808
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Waverly Novels: Quentin Durward. St. Ronan's well

Walter Scott - 1845 - 626 pages
...Vanessa, his more impassioned pupil : — " The innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind her hook, Was but the master's secret joy, In school to hear the finest boy." But Josiah Cargill was less fortunate, or less cautious. He suffered his fair pupil to become inexpressibly...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Interesting and Valuable ..., Volume 1

Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 pages
...: — *' Hi-, conduct might have made him stjled A lather ¡11 id the nymph hU child. That hmoct'nt delight he took To see the virgin mind her book, Was but the master's sec t et joy In school to hear the finest boy," This is not saying much for love ; and nothing to promise...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...could praise, esteem, approve, But understood not what was love: His conduct might have made him styled A father, and the nymph his child. That innocent delight...master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy. The tragedy continued to deepen as it approached its close. Eight years had Vanessa nursed in solitude...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...could praise, esteem, approve, But understood not what was love: His conduct might have made him styled A father, and the nymph his child. That innocent delight...master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy. The tragedy continued to deepen as it approached its close. Eight years had Vanessa nursed in solitude...
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Waverly Novels, Volume 27

Walter Scott - 1852 - 368 pages
...which were unhappily transgressed by the unfortunate Vanessa, his more impassioned pupil :— " The innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind her book, Was hut the master's secret joy, In school to hear the finest boy." But Josiah Cargill was less fortunate,...
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The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...spoil'd his fashionable airs : He now could praise, esteem, approve. But understood not what was love. s and balm, Others whose fruit burnish'd with golden...them lawns, or level downs, and flock* Grazing the te Her knowledge with her fancy grew; She hourly press'd for something new; Ideas came into her mind So...
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Waverley Novels: From the Last Rev. Ed., Containing the Author's Final ...

Walter Scott - 1852 - 534 pages
...which were unhappily transgressed by the unfortunate Vanessa, his more impassioned pupil : — The innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind her...master's secret joy, In school to hear the finest boy. But Josiah Cargill was less fortunate, or less cautious. He suffered his fair pupil to become inexpressibly...
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St. Ronan's well

Walter Scott - 1853 - 534 pages
...which were unhappily transgressed by the unfortunate Vanessa, his more impassioned pupil : — The innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind her...master's secret joy, In school to hear the finest boy. But Josiah Cargill was less fortunate, or less cautious. He suffered his fair pupil to become inexpressibly...
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Waverly Novels, Volume 33

Walter Scott - 1855 - 372 pages
...which were unhappily transgressed by the unfortunate Vanessa, his more impassioned pupil:— " The innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind her...master's secret joy, In school to hear the finest boy.** But Josiah Cargill was less fortunate, or less cautious. He suffered his fair pupil to become inexpressibly...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 33

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 608 pages
...of so hopeful a mind. His conduct might have made him styled A father, and the nymph his child : The innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind her...master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy. But, alas ! Cupid got among the books. Vanessa, not in years a score, Dreams of a gown of forty-four;...
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