 | American literature - 1854 - 598 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... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 494 pages
...so hopeful a mind. "Ilis conduct might have made him styled A father, and the nymph his child : The innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind her...the master's secret joy In school to hear the finest hoy." But, alas ! Cupid got among the books. " Vanessa, not in years a score, Dreams of a gown of forty... | |
 | David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 pages
...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 book Was hut the master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy." But, alas ! Cupid got among the books.... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 346 pages
...towards her the convenient character of a father and tutor. ' 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.' In vain did he now entreat her not to foster her fruitless attachment by retirement ; but to go into... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 356 pages
...His conduct might have made him styled A father, and the nymph his child, That innocent delight be took To see the virgin mind her book, Was but the master's secret joy la school to hear the fiuest boy.' In vain did he now entreat her not to foster her fruitless attachment... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1863 - 322 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... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...SHAESPERE. — As Yon Like it, Act II. Scene 7. (Jaques on the Seven Ages of Man.) SCHOOLMASTER.— The innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind her...master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy. SWIFT. — Cadenus and Vanessa, Line 550. SCORN. — But, alas ! to make me The fixed figure for the... | |
 | English fiction - 1879 - 612 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 he took To sec the virgin mind her book, Was but the master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy. Her... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1854 - 622 pages
...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. NO. XL. NN But, alas! Cupid got among the books. Vanessa, not in years a score, Dreams of a gown of... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1893 - 1008 pages
...responsibility of her infatuation Voi- XLVI.— u. from the dean, and shows him in a light all too artless. The innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind her...master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy. But this was not the light in which the headstrong young woman, who made no secret of her love, and... | |
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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. 
