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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. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant... "
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of ... - Page 61
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1837
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Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's ...

Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
..." Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whisper'd praise. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With...every truant knew : Well had the boding tremblers learnt to trace, The day's disasters in his morning face ; Full well they laugh'd, with counterfeited...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...press'd, Shall kiss the cup, to pass it to the rest. IV — Character of a Country School Master — IB. BESIDE yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With...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...
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Memoirs of the Abbé Edgeworth: Containing His Narrative of the Last Hours of ...

Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont, C. Sneyd Edgeworth - France - 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, were allowed...
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The Poetical Works, Complete, of Oliver Goldsmith ... with Some Account of ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 pages
...the storm, Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way With...severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and ev'ry truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning...
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Sequel to the English Reader, Or Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...manfion fkill'd to rule, The village 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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The Traveller, The Deserted Village, and Other Poems ...

Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggting fence that skirts the vray With blossom 'd furze, unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion,...little school : A man severe he was, and stern to view, 1 knew him well, and ev'ry truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters...
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The Poetical Works, and Essays, of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blosaom'd furze nuprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion skill'd to rule,...little school ; A man severe he was, and stern to view, 1 knew him welt, and every truant knew* "Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disaster•...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...Scfioolmafittr.—lBBESIDE yon straggling: fence that skirts the way, "With blospora'd forze, unprotitably gayr There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The...taught his little school. A man severe he was, and ftern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew. Well had the boding; tremblers learnM to trace...
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The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...that skirts the way With blossomed furze, uqprofitably gay— There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school....he was, and stern to view— I knew him well, and i very truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning...
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Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With...learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face ; VOL. v. tr Full well they laugh'd, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had...
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