 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...ran that he could gauge. In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For e'en though vanquished, ho could argue still ; "While words of learned length...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could cany all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot "Where many a time he triumphed... | |
 | 1866 - 882 pages
...resurrected till the soul can assume the form intended for it. GRANDILOQUENCE. ВТ ВЖТ. ». DONKIBSLET. ' { 얻B ~ e[ ZV g x MEm < g5k} V wɯ ް ? P] - ...Ȼ h ;\ } oDI : 1 +d 0 f D *<Lj| cV=Q , w njC 8o C +A small head should carry all he knew." niDNEY SMITH thus mimics and satirizes ^ Sir James Mackintosh's... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge. In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For,...still ; While words of learned length and thundering souirl Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...characters are done with affectionate humor— the account of the village schoolmaster, for example: . . . 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 in his more serious portraits, such as his account of the dispossessed... | |
 | Pope John Paul I - 2001 - 292 pages
...child on the school bench at Canale, feeling as Goldsmith's schoolchildren did in The Deserted Village: '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.' Let me make myself clear, I'm not so ingenuous as to make myths... | |
 | John Foster, Gordon Dennis - 1995 - 136 pages
...gauge. In arguing too, the parson owned his skill, For even tho' vanquished, he could argue still, 20 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. OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-74) terms - days when quarterly accounts... | |
 | Frank McCourt - 1998 - 378 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. We know he loves these lines because they're about a schoolmaster,... | |
 | Frank McCourt - 1998 - 378 pages
...presage, 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. We know he loves these lines because they're about a schoolmaster,... | |
 | Jan De Groof, Hilde Penneman - 1998 - 494 pages
...And even the story ran that he could gauge. In arguing too, the parson owned his skill, For even tho' vanquished, he could argue still; While words of learned...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew ... By these words in 1770 the famous Irish poet Oliver Goldsmith... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...declared how much he knew; ' 1 was certain he could write and cypher too. 4 1 58 The Deserted Village u can never plan the future by the past. 1 765 A Letter...To innovate is not to reform. 1 766 Letter to the thund'ring sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, And still they gazed, and still the wonder... | |
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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. 
