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A Hand-book of English and American Literature: Historical and Critical ... - Page 239
by Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 518 pages
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Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...stonu. Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread Eternal sunshine settles on his head. Beside yon straggling fence, that skirts the way With...school ; A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew htm well, and every truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 9

John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...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:...and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in bis morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. t A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him...every truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learn' d to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited...
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The Traveller, the Deserted Village, and Other Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pages
...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...every truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learn 'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...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:...and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 30

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pages
...blossom'd furze unprofitably guy, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village-master taught his little school : A man severe he was, and...every truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...fence that skirts the way, With bloMom'd furze, unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little School....and every truant knew. Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face : Full well they laugh'd, with counterfeited...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...fence that skirts the way. With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay. There, in his noisy mansion sfcjll'd to rule, The village master taught his little school...and every truant knew. Well had the boding tremblers leam'il to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh 'd with counterfeited...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion skill'd eneath him smile ; The slow canal, learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...fence that skirts the way, With blossom furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school....and every truant knew. Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd, with counterfeited...
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