 | 1854 - 406 páginas
...skill, For e en though vanquished he could argue still; While words of learned 1er gth, and thund ring sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, And still they gazed, and still their wonder grew, That one small head should carry all he knew." And the scholars who crowded into... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 páginas
...— that he could gauge : In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still; While words of learned length and...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumph'd,... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 1855 - 338 páginas
...masterly speech, and silence reigns throughout the House. "His words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; And...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew." Let us turn for a moment to the gallery in which we are seated.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 páginas
...skill, For e'en though vuuquish'd, he could argue still ; While words of learned length, and thundering sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; And...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame : the very spot, Where many a time he... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 páginas
...e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still ; While words of learned length, and thundering Bound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame : the very spot, Where many a time he... | |
 | 1856 - 194 páginas
...guage! ILLUSTRATED OLIO. In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still ; While words of learned length...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew." So ranch for the schoolmaster of the olden time. Our artist in... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...could argue still ; The Deserted Village — Continued. While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; And...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. Line 229. Contrived a double debt to pay. Line 253. To me more... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 páginas
...skill, For oven though vanquished, he oould argue still ; While words of learned length and thundering the nimble finger of the fair ; A wreath that cannot...fade, or flowers that blow With most success when small head could carry all he know. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumphed... | |
 | 1857 - 894 páginas
...as to that fact. But I thought how admirably the poet's lines applied to that favored school : — " And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all he knew." I do not wish, however, to lay too much stress upon this incident. I do not wish to be unjust to the... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 páginas
...skill, For, even though vanquished, he could argue still ; While words of learned length, and thundering Amazed the gazing- rustics ranged around; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame : the very spot Where many a time ho triumph... | |
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For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still; While words of learned length, and thund'ring sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around — And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. 
