 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 pages
...: In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For, e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue sttll ; 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." There are certain whimsical traits in the character of Byrne not... | |
 | Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1853 - 510 pages
...presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge. In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For even though vanquished, he could argue still ; While words...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. GOLDSMITH. NOEWAN had hitherto conned his fairy lore to the Lady,... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...And even the story ran that he could guage ; In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For even, though vanquished, he could argue still ; While words...around ; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grow, That one small head could carry all he knew. GOLDSMITH. PART IIL-POETS OF THE ELIZABETHAN AGE.... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1853 - 494 pages
...cipher too, Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'eO the story run that he could guage. In arguing too the parson owned his skill, For e'en...though vanquished he could argue still, While words of wond'rous length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, And still they gazed... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 pages
...And even the story ran — that he could gauge. In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still ; While words...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...arguing too, the parson owned his skill, For even though vanquished, he could argue still ; ivhile words of learned length, and thundering sound, Amazed...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. Jn passed i- all his fame : the very spnt, Where many a time he... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - 1854 - 354 pages
...parson own'd his skill, ; For even though vanquish'd, he could argue still ; While words oflearned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all he knew. 1 ' Tall cliff: ' imitated from Young, and by him from Clandian.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 pages
...skill, For ev'n though vanquish'd he could argue still ; While words of learned length, and thund'ring 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. "\ But-past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 pages
...GOLDSMITH'S DESERTED VILLAGE. In arguing too the parson nwn'cl his skill, For e'en though vuuquish'd, he could argue still ; While words of learned length,...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... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 1855 - 338 pages
...Exchequer. He is in the midst of his masterly speech, and silence reigns throughout the House. "His words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew." Let us turn for a moment to the gallery in which we are seated.... | |
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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. 
