 | 1814 - 310 Seiten
...skill, For ev'n though vanquish'd, he could argue still ; While words of learned length, and thundering sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; And...still they gaz.ed, 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 Seiten
...skill, For even though vanquished 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 triumphed... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 Seiten
...skill, For e'en though vanquish'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 should carry all he knew. But pass'd is all his fame. The very spot, Where many a time he... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1824 - 428 Seiten
...and questions brought to my recol'eciiot Goldsmith's beautiful picture of the Village Schoa.master, '•In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, '•...For e'en though vanquished he could argue still." When I had read the new " Treatise" on the coveni"'; I 'Called to mind another distich of the same... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 Seiten
...ran — that he could guage : 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 rould carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumph'd,... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 Seiten
...; For, even though vanquish'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. WILLIAM FALCONER. BORN 1730 — DIED 1769. THE author of the SHIPWRECK... | |
 | John Barber - 1828 - 310 Seiten
...his fault; In arguing too, the parson owned his skill; 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. " EXPOSTULATION." " COWPER." Hast thou, though suckled at fair... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 Seiten
...tides presage And e'en the story ran that he could gauge ; In arguing, too, the parson олупеа powercd, they jvAu Ш «util Шй йпяофв» I ENGLISH LITERATURE. :6 hostile waters close thundering sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around; And still they gazed, and still the wonder... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...skill, For, e'en though vanquished, 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. [From The Deterted Pillage.} THE HAPPINESS OF PASSING ONE'S AGE... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 Seiten
...ran—that he could guage: 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. • " • But past is all his fame. The very spot ' Where many... | |
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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. 
