 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 pages
...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. Her knowledge with her fancy grew ; She hourly press'd for something new ; Ideas came into her mind... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 530 pages
...characterized his affection for Vanessa as void of passion : " 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." And Stella he has thus addressed : " Thou, Stella, wert no longer young, When first for thee my harp... | |
 | Edmund Yates, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - English literature - 1883 - 756 pages
...tutor, a feeling which, however, he says in his Cadenus and Vanessa he in no way reciprocated : — " That innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind...master's secret joy, In school to hear the finest boy." The true state of affairs does not seem to have escaped the notice of Miss Anne Long, already alluded... | |
 | Edmund Yates, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - English literature - 1883 - 752 pages
...tutor, a feeling which, however, he says in his Cadenus and Vanessa he in no way reciprocated : — " That innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind...Was but the master's secret joy, In school to hear tho finest boy." The true state of affairs does not seem to have escaped the notice of Miss Anne Long,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Authors, English - 1885 - 354 pages
...spoiled his fashionable airs : He now could praise, esteem, approve, But understood not what was love. His conduct might have made him styl'd A father, and...master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy. Her knowledge with her fancy grew ; She hourly press'd for something new ; Ideas came into her mind... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English literature - 1886 - 396 pages
...which he attains the standard of true poetry—he says :— ' 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. Her knowledge with her fancy grew ; She hourly pressed for something new ; Ideas came into her mind... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - English essays - 1886 - 222 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. Her knowledge with her fancy grew, She hourly pressed for something new; Ideas came into her mind So... | |
 | Walter Scott - English fiction - 1886 - 908 pages
...which were unhappily transgressed by 'he unfortunate Vanessa, his more impassioned Vupil : — " 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1887 - 674 pages
...characterized his affection for Vanessa as void of passion : " His conduct might have made him Btyled A father, and the nymph his child. That innocent delight...master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy.>' And Stella he has thus addressed : " Thou, Stella, wert no longer young, When first for thee my harp... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - English literature - 1889 - 460 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. Her knowledge with her fancy grew, She hourly pressed for something new ; Ideas came into her mind... | |
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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. 
