 | 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... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 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...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... | |
 | 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
...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...truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disaster in his morning face. Full well they laugh'd, with counterfeited glee, At all... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...unprofitably gay, There, in this noisy mansion skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school : 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 disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...unprofitubly gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rulo, The village master taught his little school. Sweet floweret of the rural learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laughed with counterfeited... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 560 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...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 countefeited glee. At all... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 304 pages
...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... | |
 | 1857 - 862 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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1857 - 866 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 langh'd, with counterfeited... | |
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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... 
