 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...unjjrofitnblv gay, fhcfe in his noisy mansion skill'd to rule, Tie village master taught his little school ; y as he can, When able. But if there is an hereafter, And that there is, conscien \Vell had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his moxniug face : Full well... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...unprofitably gay; There, in his noisy mansion skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school: A man severe he was and stern to view, I knew him...had he; Full well the busy whisper circling round, Convcy'iI the dismal tidings when he frown'd; Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...skill'd to rule, The village master taught bis little school : A man severe he was, and stern to view, 1 knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the...learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Fall well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he ; Fall well... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...nnprofitahly gay, There, in his noisy mansion skilPd to rnle, The village master tanght his little school ; A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every trnant knew. I Well had the hoding tremhlers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pages
...in his noisy mansion, skili'd to rule, The village master taught his little school; A man severe be was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew ; Well had the bod ing tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stern to view, • "^ I knew him well, and every truant knew; WTell hud the boding tremblers learn'd to trace,", j The day's disasters in his morning face; Full... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, ' i The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him...disasters in his morning face : Full well they laugh'd and counterfeited glee, At all his jokes — for many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper circling... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school ; A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him...day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh 'd, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper,... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school: A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him...every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learnt to trace, The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd, with counterfeited... | |
 | Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont, C. Sneyd Edgeworth - France - 1815 - 250 pages
...The * In this bouse Oliver Goldsmith received the ludimcnts «f education from Mr. Patrick Hughes : " A man severe he was, and stern to view, " I knew him well, and every truant knew." children of Mr. Edgeworth, the proprietor of Edgeworthstown, and their little cousins, were allowed... | |
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Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay — There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant... 
