 | Old Humphrey - 1845 - 264 páginas
...learning and knowledge, for like the schoolmaster in the Deserted Village, he was regarded as an oracle. " While words of learned length and thundering sound,...! And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, How one small head could carry all he knew." The way in which he kept up his credit was this : he was... | |
 | 1875 - 828 páginas
...presage, And even the story ran that he could gauge ; 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." If the attainments of the village schoolmaster were deemed so... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 páginas
...skill, For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still ; While words of learned length, and thund'rinI sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, —...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. • But put is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he... | |
 | A.J. REQUIER - 1846 - 214 páginas
...from the cloud. Oh ! Nature, who can fathom the depths of thy voiceless sympathies ? CHAPTER VII. ' 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.' Goldsmith's Deserted Village. THE time fixed upon by the naturalist... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 páginas
...too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could guage. In arguing too the parson owned his skill, For e'en...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 ha triumphed... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 páginas
...too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge. 25 In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For e'en...; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, 30 That one small head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many... | |
 | 1900 - 614 páginas
...know." Where does this come from ? What Goldsmith wrote in ' The Deserted Village ' is as follows : — While words of learned length and thundering sound...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all he knew. " Head " is so much better than " brain " that such a misquotation... | |
 | 1900 - 676 páginas
...know." Where does this come from ] What Goldsmith wrote in ' The Deserted Village ' is as follows : — While words of learned length and thundering sound...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all he knew. " Head " is so much better than " brain " that such a misquotation... | |
 | James Gallaher - 1850 - 420 páginas
...in mute amazement. He was, in short, the exact duplicate of Goldsmith's country schoolmaster. ' His words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.' This illustrious genius had his literary harangue arrested in... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 páginas
...arguing too, the parson owned his skill, "''or even though vanquished, he could argue still; 'vhile words of learned length, and thundering sound, Amazed...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. 3ut passed k all his fame : the very spot, Where many a time he... | |
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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. 
