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. Notes and Queries - Página 451900Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Book - 1854 - 496 páginas
...he could argue still; While words of learned length and thund'ring sound, Amazed the gazing rusties ranged around; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should cany all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Whore many a time he trinmph'd, is forgot.... | |
| Henry William Herbert - 1854 - 300 páginas
...could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge; And stiliybMrs gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all he knew." Hitherto, with the exception of the loss of his mother, which he had been too young fully to appreciate,... | |
| 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... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 páginas
...characters are done with affectionate humor— the account of the village schoolmaster, for example: . . . While words of learned length and thundering sound...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. But in his more serious portraits, such as his account of the dispossessed... | |
| Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 páginas
...grows, How one small face can carry So much nose. ARTHUR H. GILLMOR This may be a parody on Goldsmith's: Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. He was speaking about the village schoolmaster. Gazing rustics... | |
| Pope John Paul I - 2001 - 292 páginas
...child on the school bench at Canale, feeling as Goldsmith's schoolchildren did in The Deserted Village: 'While words of learned length and thundering sound...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.' Let me make myself clear, I'm not so ingenuous as to make myths... | |
| John Foster, Gordon Dennis - 1995 - 136 páginas
...gauge. In arguing too, the parson owned his skill, For even tho' vanquished, he could argue still, 20 While words of learned length, and thundering sound,...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-74) terms - days when quarterly accounts... | |
| Frank McCourt - 1998 - 378 páginas
...gauge. In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill For, even though vanquished, he could argue still, While words of learned length and thundering sound...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. We know he loves these lines because they're about a schoolmaster,... | |
| Frank McCourt - 1998 - 378 páginas
...gauge. In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For, even though vanquished, he could argue still, While words of learned length and thundering sound...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. We know he loves these lines because they're about a schoolmaster,... | |
| Susan P. Kemp, James K. Whittaker, Elizabeth M. Tracy - 284 páginas
...sure I will feel like Oliver Goldsmith's village rustics, contemplating their schoolmaster. They: "... ranged around; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew. That one small head could carry all he knew." (ibid., 10) A profession clearly and rightly identified with multilevel,... | |
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