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
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...gauge. In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For, e'en 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. [From The Deterted Pillage.} THE HAPPINESS OF PASSING ONE'S AGE... | |
| Eli Geddings - 1835 - 476 pages
...appropriate name. It is true that all this served some of the purposes of the surgeon well enough, when "Words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around." The practice of the Baltimore Infirmary have given me frequent opportunities to notice the mischiefs... | |
| William Matthews - 1835 - 522 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 :' besides forcibly reminding them of one character delineated in Hudibras, — • Minutes of Evidence,... | |
| William Matthews - 1835 - 564 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 !" besides forcibly reminding them of one character delineated in Hudibras, — * Minutes of Evidence,... | |
| Samuel Worcester - 1837 - 264 pages
...: 4. In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still ; While words of learned length, and thundering sound,...grew, That one small head should carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot, Where many a time he triumphed, is forgot. ERRORS. 3. measur... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 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 could carry all he knew. • " • But past is all his fame. The very spot ' Where many... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1837 - 558 pages
...person in question, might have been given it ; one probable characteristic however is retained — " While words of learned length, and thundering sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around." The school-house is still shown ; here there may be some straining of fact as to identity, for no place... | |
| 1837 - 536 pages
...person in question, might have been given it; one probable characteristic however is retained— ' While words of learned length, and thundering sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around.' The school-house is still shown; here there may be some straining of fact as to identity, for no place... | |
| 1837 - 552 pages
...person in question, might have been given it; one probable characteristic however is retained— ' While words of learned length, and thundering sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around.' The school,house is still shown ; here there may be some straining of fact as to identity, for no place... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1837 - 564 pages
...person in question, might have been given it ; one probable characteristic however is retained — " While words of learned length, and thundering sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around." The school-house is still shown ; here there may be some straining of fact as to identity, for no place... | |
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