| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way With blossomed furze uuprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion skilled to rule,...boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters iu his morning's face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...storm ; Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. remembered folly stings, And his last sighs reproach...repin«, Shall Wolscy's wealth, with Wolsey's end be erery truant knew. Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning's... | |
| Edward Deering Mansfield - 1851 - 348 pages
...young. Is it not a case of every-day occurrence, that knowledge alone does not carry with it powers * " There, in his noisy mansion skilled to rule, The village...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... | |
| Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...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 bim well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...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 hiiT) well, and every truant knew : GOLDSMITH 8 POETICAL WORKS. Well had the boding tremblers l^arn'd... | |
| 1909 - 490 pages
...brutal in their discipline, never appealing to any motive for obedience but the fear of punishment. "A man severe he was and stern to view, I knew him...The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well the busy whisper circling round Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned." I may say, however, that... | |
| John Bartlow Martin - 1986 - 364 pages
...oit; II est tres bean temps maintment. II n'est pas tres froir in tres chaud. Goldsmith's Pedagogue. A man severe he was and stern to view I knew him well...knew: Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace no The days disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee At all his... | |
| John Foster, Gordon Dennis - 1995 - 136 pages
...by commercial developments. It is written in rhyming couplets (see p. 4). The Village Schoolmaster Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With...little school; A man severe he was, and stern to view; 5 I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's... | |
| G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 pages
...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 knew. . .* The description of the Village Alehouse, contains domestick minutiae, of a kind, which must necessarily... | |
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