 | 1854 - 406 pages
...recollections which crowd upon me of years agone. And the master — but let the poet describe him. "A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him...every truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's dfoastera in hie morning face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 pages
...unprofitable 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...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 glee At all... | |
 | 1856 - 194 pages
...called, " The Deserted Village." I will quote a few lines from it : " Beside yon straggling fence, that skirts the way "With blossom'd furze, unprofitably...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 : Well had... | |
 | 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
...uprofitably 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...and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. 4 1 56 The Deserted Village upon. LYONS Lord 6667 If you're given champagne at...there's a catch somewhere. LYSANDER d.395 BC 6668 learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited... | |
 | Jan De Groof, Hilde Penneman - 1998 - 494 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...and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh' d with counterfeited... | |
 | Mary DeWitt Freeland - 2009 - 624 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 counterfeit... | |
 | 2004 - 228 pages
...his eighteenth-century 'sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain'. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably...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; Well had the... | |
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Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd 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... 
