In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed, and mean attire, A matron old, whom we school-mistress name ; Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame... English Pedagogy: Education, the School, and the Teacher, in English Literature - Pàgina 409editat per - 1876 - 608 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 pàgines
...the dreary shades of dull obscurity. In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed...tame ; They grieven sore in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the power of this relentless dame ; And oft-times, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair,... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pàgines
...Passages from Shenstone's School-mistress. In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to Fame, There dwells in lowly shed , and mean attire, A matron old, whom we School - mistress name; Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame ; They grieven sore , in piteous... | |
| 1853 - 560 pàgines
...the dreary shades of dull ohscurity. In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed...oft-times, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair, or task unconned, are sorely shent. And all in sight doth rise a birchen tree, Which Learning near her little... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pàgines
...to learning was a fault. Goldsmith. In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells in lowly shed,...tame, They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the power of this relentless dame; And, oft-times, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 pàgines
...ÜM.I.SMITH. The Schoolmbtrcss is excellent of Its kind and masterly. — (¡RAÏ to \\alpoU.] 403 There dwells, in lowly shed, and mean attire, A matron...grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed by the pow'r of this relentless dame : And oft-times, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair, or task unconn'd,... | |
| Book - 1854 - 496 pàgines
...marked with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shades and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress...unkempt hair, or task unconn'd, are sorely shent. And all in sight doth rise a birchen tree, Which Learning near her little dome did stowe ; Whilom a... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 pàgines
...volume. THE SCHOOLMISTRESS. • ****•• In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to Fame. There dwells, in lowly shed...tame ; They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the power of this relentless dame, And ofttimes, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair, or... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pàgines
...the dreary shades of dull obscurity. In every village mark'd with little spire, F.mbower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed,...we school-mistress name ; Who boasts unruly brats witli birch to tamej They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed by the power of this relentless... | |
| William Shenstone, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 324 pàgines
...dreary shades of dull obscurity/^ In every village mark'd with little spire, ft Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, \ There dwells, in lowly...attire, ^ A matron old, whom we schoolmistress name, 1^ Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame ; \ They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed... | |
| William Shenstone, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 318 pàgines
...dreary shades of dull obscurity. 2 In every village mark'd with little spire, Einbower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed by the power of this relentless dame, And ofttimes,... | |
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