 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...  L'homme des champs; ou, Les géorgiques françoises - Page 175by Jacques Delille - 1800 - 272 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pages
...way With blossom'd furze, 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 well, and every truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...way, With blossom'd furze, 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 well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...hlossom'd fnrae nnprofitahly gay, There, in his noisy mansion skilPd to rnle, The village master tanght his little school ; A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every trnant knew. I Well had the hoding tremhlers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 pages
...' With blossom'd furze 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 well, and every truant knew; WTell hud the boding tremblers learn'd to trace,", j The day's disasters in his... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pages
...way, With blossom'd furze 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 well and every truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...way, With blossom'd furze 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 well, and every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learnt to trace, The day's disasters in his morning... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...With blossom'd furze, unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, ' i The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew. Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - 1815 - 340 pages
...way. With blossom'd furze, 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 well, and every truant knew. Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning... | |
 | Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont, C. Sneyd Edgeworth - 1815 - 250 pages
...The * In this bouse Oliver Goldsmith received the ludimcnts «f education from Mr. Patrick Hughes : " A man severe he was, and stern to view, " I knew him well, and every truant knew." children of Mr. Edgeworth, the proprietor of Edgeworthstown, and their little cousins,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pages
...mafter taught his little fchool. A man fevere he was, and ftern to view\ I knew him well, and every truant knew. Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's difafters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd, with counterfeited glee, At'all his jokes,... | |
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