 | George Crabbe - 1901 - 624 pages
...clear ; Applause at school the youthful hero gain'd. And triab there with manly strength sustoin'd : With prospects bright upon the world he came, Pure love of virtue, strong desire of fame : Wen watoh'd the way his lofty mind would take, And all foretold the progress he would make. Boast... | |
 | Charles Harold Herford - 1902 - 364 pages
...clear; Applause at school the youthful hero gain'd, And trials there with manly strength sustain'd: With prospects bright upon the world he came, Pure love of virtue, strong desire of fame : Men watch'd the way his lofty mind would take, And all foretold the progress he would make. Boast of these... | |
 | Charles Harold Herford - 1902 - 366 pages
...With prospects bright upon the world he came, Pure love of virtue, strong desire of fame : Men watch'd the way his lofty mind would take, And all foretold the progress he would make. Boast of these friends, to older men a guide, Proud of his parts, but gracious in his pride; He bore... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1906 - 532 pages
...clear ; Applause at school the youthful hero gain'd, And trials there with manly strength sustain'd ; With prospects bright upon the world he came, Pure love of virtue, strong desire of fame ; Men watch'd the way his lofty mind would take, And all foretold the progress he would make. Boast of these... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1914 - 634 pages
...clear ; Applause at school the youthful hero gain'd, And trials there with manly strength sustain'd : With prospects bright upon the world he came, Pure love of virtue, strong desire of fame r Men watch'd the way his lofty mind would take, And all foretold the progress he would make. Boast... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 676 pages
...hope or expect. The obscurity of his birth could alone be objected to him; in every other respect, With prospects bright upon the world he came, Pure...take, And all foretold the progress he would make. But it could not be expected that he should resist th" snare which Mrs. Mannering's imprudence threw... | |
 | Crabbe - 1967 - 492 pages
...clear; Applause at school the youthful hero gain'd, And trials there with manly strength sustain'd : With prospects bright upon the world he came, Pure love of virtue, strong desire of fame : Men watch'd the way his lofty mind would take, And all foretold the progress he would make. Boast of these... | |
 | Caroline McCracken-Flesher - 2005 - 240 pages
...body. Before we meet him, his innate goodness forces an eruption of poetry within the narrative voice: "With prospects bright upon the world he came, / Pure...take, / And all foretold the progress he would make" (96). To strangers, he manifests truth. He has "a fund of principle and honest pride" that renders... | |
 | 1885 - 276 pages
...Northern Achilles in a match for £50 finally establishing himself as one of England's best players — With prospects bright upon the world he came — Pure...take, And all foretold the progress he would make. With Jewitt, in 1882, he played 8 games, and in 1884 12 games, the total score being — Beattie 3,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1892 - 738 pages
...or expect. The obscurity of his birth could alone be objected to him ; in every other respect, — " With prospects bright upon the world he came, Pure...take, And all foretold the progress he would make." But it could not be expected that he should resist the snare which Mrs. Mannering's imprudence threw... | |
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With prospects bright upon the world he came, Pure love of virtue, strong desire of fame ; Men watched the way his lofty mind would take, And all foretold the progress he would make. 
