| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault ; The village all declar'd how much he knew ; 'Twas certain he could write, and...Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And even the story ran that he could gauge : In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For even though... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...busy whisper circling round, Couvey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd ! Yet he was kind, or, iT severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault ; The village all declar'd how much hn knew; 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher loo ; Lands he could measure, terms... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...joke had he : Full well the busy whisper circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet he was kind ; or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. The village all declar'd how much he knew : 'Twas certain he could write and cypher too : Lands he could measure ;... | |
| William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...had he : Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey 'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet he was kind ; or, if severe in aught, The love he -bore to learning wa* in fault. "The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twae eertaia he couid write and cypher too... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...had he ; Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned , Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he...how much he knew, Twas certain he could write and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage^ And even the story ran that he could... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...joke had he; Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd ; Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declar'd how much he knew; 'T was certain he could write and cypher too; Lands he could measure, terms... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 296 pages
...joke had he; Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd; Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he...how much he knew; Twas certain he could write and cipher too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge:... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...he ; Full well the busy whisper, circling- round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd ; Tet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault ; The village all declar'd how much he knew ; 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too; Lands he could measure, terms... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...he : Full well the busy whisper circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet ho was kind ; or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. The village all declar'd how much he knew : 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too : Lands he could measure ;... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...joke had be; Full well the busy whisper circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd ; air and chaste Rejects mankind, is by some sylph embrac'd: For spirits, freed from mortal laws, wi declar'd how much he knew ; 'Twas certain he could write, and cypher too; Lands he could measure, terms... | |
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