 | Children's poetry - 1856 - 194 pages
...Beside yon straggling fence, that skirts the 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... | |
 | Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers Napier - 1856 - 438 pages
..."Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom 'd furze, unprofitably gay, There in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school ;" near which stood the grocer's and the butcher's shops. Yon stunted old pollard, marked the spot... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 pages
...fence that skirts the way, With hlossom'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. AVcll had the boding tremblers Icarn'd... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze uprofitably 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 learned... | |
 | John Foster, Gordon Dennis - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1995 - 136 pages
...fence that skirts the way, With blossomed 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; 5 I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers... | |
 | Frank McCourt - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 378 pages
...stragglingfence that skirts the way, With blossomed 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 knew. Full well the boding tremblers learned... | |
 | Frank McCourt - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 378 pages
...fence that skirts the way, With blossomed 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 knew. Full well the boding tremblers learned... | |
 | Jan De Groof, Hilde Penneman - Education - 1998 - 494 pages
...fence that skirts the way, With blossomed 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 learned... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 650 pages
...Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze 16 unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school; 17 110 A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the... | |
 | Edward Lanzer Joseph - Fiction - 2001 - 588 pages
...t companion: Companion-ladder, a ladder leading from the deck to a cabin. p. 70 f "A man severe he was, and stern to view; /1 knew him well, and every truant knew. / Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, / At all his jokes - for many a joke had he." Goldsmith:... | |
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Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay — There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. 
