 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 pages
...permitted to advert to one instance where sketching the village schoolmaster we are told — " Vet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault." But this may have been merely a remnant of that provincialism which occasionally clung to him in manner,... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, Irish - 1837 - 606 pages
...we be permitted to advert to one instance where sketching the village schoolmaster we are told — " Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he hore to learning was in fault.'' But this may have been merely a remnant of that provincialism which... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 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...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... | |
 | James Wilson - Biography - 1838 - 372 pages
...Encyclopaedia. Musical Biography, vol. 2nd. THE LIFE OF THOMAS HOLLAND, OF MANCHESTER, THE BLIND TEACHER. '< Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was his fault" A few particulars in the history of this interesting character appeared in some of the periodical... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 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 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 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 was in fault ; The village all declar'd how much he knew ; f 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too ; ) Lands he could measure,... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 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...much he knew — "Twas certain he could write, and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And ev'n the story ran that he could... | |
 | American periodicals - 1840 - 560 pages
...had he ; Full well the busy whisper circling round, Cnnvey'd the diainal tidings when lie frownM ; Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning wa.- in fault; The village all declared how much he knew, ' J'was certain he could write and ciplier... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...had he; Pull well the busy whisper circling round, .'onvey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'dYet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore...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... | |
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