 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...  Book of Elegant Poetical Extracts - Page 479by John T. Watson - 1869 - 506 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1846 - 144 pages
...flung Its first uncertain gleaming. Notes startling high and loud and loag, Dispel my idle dreaming. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew. The slender stream of Siloa's gentle wave Once to the Christians draughts untainted gave. EXERCISES.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...profitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school: be found Ca Convey M the dismal tidings when he frown'dVet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...unprofitably gay, There in his noisy mansion skilled to'rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him...and every truant knew. Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed, with counterfeited... | |
 | David Perkins Page - 1847 - 402 pages
...sometimes laugh, as they did of old, because they think it prudent to do so. " A man severe he waa and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learned to- trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed, with counterfeited... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...compound of oddity, frolic and fun, Who relish'da joke, and rejoic'd in a pun. GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation. 9. Full well they laugh'd, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he. 10. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. POPE. 1 1 . Sport,... | |
 | 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...and every truant knew, Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well the busy whisper circling round... | |
 | 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...and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace no The days disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 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. . .* The description of the Village Alehouse, contains domestick minutiae, of a kind, which must necessarily... | |
 | Frank McCourt - 1998 - 378 pages
...unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled 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. Full well the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disaster in his morningface. He always closes... | |
 | Sandhya Narang - 1996 - 176 pages
...the West as well in India: 1. Oliver Goldsmith described the village schoolteacher in these words: A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew, We had the boding tremplers learn's to trace, The day's disasters in his morning face: Full well they... | |
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