 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...m fault. The village all declared how much he knew ; 'Twos certain he could write, and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge ; In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For e'en though vanquished he could argue still ; While... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe - 1902 - 506 pages
...in fault ; The village all declared how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cypher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge : In arguing too the parson owned his skill ; For e'en though vanquished he could argue still ; While... | |
 | John Benjamin Wisely - 1903 - 246 pages
...was in fault; The village all declared how much he knew; 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge : In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill; For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still ; While... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - 1904 - 520 pages
...in fault; The village all declared how much he knew; 'T was certain he could write and cipher too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge; In arguing too, the parson owned his skill, For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still ; While... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 pages
...in fault. The village all declared how much he knew; 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge, In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For e'en though vanquished he could argue still; 188 While... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1906 - 362 pages
...fault ; The village all declar'd how much he knew ; 'Twas certain he could write, and cypher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge. 210 In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still ;... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 806 pages
...in fanlt. The village all declared how much he knew ; 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gange. In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still.... | |
 | Ontario. Department of Education - 1907 - 362 pages
...in fault: The village all declared how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write, and cypher too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge. In arguing, too, the Parson owned his skill; While words of learned length, and thundering sound. Amazed... | |
 | Julian Hill - 1907 - 378 pages
...in fault ; The village all declared how much he knew : Twas certain he could write, and cipher too : Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge : In arguing, too, the person owned his skill ; For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still ;... | |
 | Grace Eleanor Hadow, William Henry Hadow - 1908 - 440 pages
...fault ; The village all declar'd how much he knew ; 'Twas certain he could write, and cypher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge. 210 In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still ;... | |
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Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. The village all declared how much he knew : 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher, too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran —... 
