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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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St. Ronan's Well

Walter Scott - 1871 - 642 pages
...his more impassioned pupil : — " The innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind her book, Waa 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 Quarterly Review, Volume 134

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1873 - 606 pages
...him, as Esther Vanhomrigh fell in love with Swift, and he could not have exclaimed like the Dean, ' That innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind...master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy.' Madame de Puliga says : ' We must not be surprised at this. In the seventeenth century, rank created...
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The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's

David Masson - Literature - 1874 - 404 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." But, alas ! Cupid got among the books. " Vanessa, not in years a score, Dreams of a gown of forty-four...
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The three Devils, with other essays

David Mather Masson - 1874 - 390 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." But, alas ! Cupid got among the books. " Vanessa, not in years a score, Dreams of a gown of forty-four...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 136

English literature - 1874 - 606 pages
...Cadenus speaks of Vanessa : ' He now could praise, esteem, approve, But understood not what was love. Her conduct might have made him styl'd A father, and the nymph his child.' It would seem that the Roman classics divided her attention with the Greek : ' You have done well not...
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The Living Age, Volume 121

1874 - 844 pages
...Cadenus speaks of Vanessa : He now could praise, esteem, approve, But understood not what was love. Her conduct might have made him styl'd A father, and the nymph his child. It would seem that the Roman classics divided her attention with the Greek : You have done well not...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 136

English literature - 1874 - 616 pages
...Cadenus speaks of Vanessa : ' He now could praise, esteem, approve, But understood not what was love. Her conduct might have made him styl'd A father, and the nymph his child.' It would seem that the Roman classics divided her attention with the Greek : ' You have done well not...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 136

English literature - 1874 - 618 pages
...speaks of Vanessa : • ' He now could praise, esteem, approve, But understood not what was love. Her conduct might have made him styl'd A father, and the nymph his child.' It would seem that the Roman classics divided her attention with the Greek : ' You have done well not...
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...spoil'd his fashionable airs : He now could praise, esteem, approve. But understood not what was love. row'd rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. Her knowledge with her fancy grew ; She hourly press'd for something new ; Ideat came into her mind...
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The Handy Volume "Waverly" ...: St. Ronan's well

Walter Scott - 1877 - 568 pages
...which were unhappily transgressed by the unfortunate Vanessa, bis 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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