 For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still ; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.  Notes and Queries - Page 451900Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...could argue still— While words of learned strength and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rusties ranged around; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame: the very spot Where many a time he triumphed,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...guage : In arguing too, the parson owned his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still ; While words of learned length, and thundering sound....still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumphed... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...length, and thund'ring sound, Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around; And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all he knew. voL. IX. D But past is all his fame. The very spot, Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. Near... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pages
...gauge : In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still ; While words of learned length and thundering sound...grew That one small head should carry all he knew. But pass'd is all his fame. The very spot, Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. Near yonder thorn,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pages
...skill, For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still ; While words of learned length, and thund'ring sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, —...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head rould carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumph'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 160 pages
...length, and thund'ring Amaz'd the gazing rustics rung'd arouml ; [sound, And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. Near yonder thorn... | |
 | John Barber - 1828 - 310 pages
...severe in aught, The love he bore in learning was his fault; In arguing too, the parson owned his skill; While words of learned length, and thundering sound...still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. " EXPOSTULATION." " COWPER." Hast thou, though suckled at fair... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...In arguing, too, the' parson own'd his skill ; For, even though vanquish'd, he could argue still : While words of learned length and thundering sound...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. WILLIAM FALCONER. BORN 1730 — DIED 1769. THE author of the SHIPWRECK... | |
 | Water question - 1829 - 112 pages
...similar predicament with the " gazing rustics ranged around" the Village Schoolmaster, among whom " the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all he knew ! " 77 Though the new plan was so comprehensive and so infallible, yet when its contriver was questioned,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...arguing, too, the parson олупеа his skill, For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still; TERATURE. :6 hostile waters close around their head, ley sink for ever, numbered smalihead could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame . the very spot Where many a time he triumphed,... | |
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