 | 1842 - 608 sider
...No. 20. Webster again, and racy as usual. " There in his noisy mansion skilled to rule, The Tillage master taught his little school, A man severe he was,...tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face. No. 21. Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 sider
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 sider
...leaves the storm ; Though round its breast the rolling clouds are Eternal sunshine settles on its head. en to my lot : they amount to fourteen. 0 man! place not thy confidence in this present world.' t« view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew. Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The... | |
 | 1850 - 642 sider
...famous sketch in the " Deserted Village" : — А тал severe he was, and stern to view, I knew hit» 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 glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had... | |
 | 1874 - 990 sider
...their noses and fidgeted until he should get on his legs, which he was in no particular hurry to do. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew. That was true enough ; but then he wasn't always severe and stern, and he wasn't always stern when... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 sider
...sweeping his living from the posteriors of little children. Benjonson (1572-1637) English dramatist, poet Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author A teacher should have maximal authority... | |
 | John Bartlow Martin - 1986 - 364 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Frank McCourt - 1998 - 378 sider
...the books under the desks and the whole class chants the passage on the schoolmaster in the village. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With...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 morning face. Full well they... | |
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Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze 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... 
