 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
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1866 - 570 pàgines
...schoolmistress name. Improved thus : — In every village mart'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells in lowly shed...attire, A matron old, whom we schoolmistress name. The eighth stanza, in ibe first edition, runs, The gown, which o'er her shoulders thrown she had, Was... | |
 | William Shenstone - 1868 - 328 pàgines
...fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed bj the power of this relentless dame, And ofttimes, on...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 stow, Whilom a... | |
 | National gallery - 1869 - 208 pàgines
...COLLECTION. No. 427. A DAME'S SCHOOL. " In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees and hardly known to fame, There dwells in lowly shed...ofttimes on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair, or task unconned, are sorely shent." Shcnstone. Engraved by Lunib Stocks, ARA ; and by H. Bourne. On canvas,... | |
 | Mark Mills Pomeroy - 1869 - 292 pàgines
...Brick, say—• "In every village marked with litue spire, Embowered in trees and hardly known to fame, A matron old, whom we school-mistress name, Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame/' Taming is good—tanning would be better! We think of the past—of the little boyish days when, just... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - 1907 - 494 pàgines
...one as inspired Shenstone's poem. " In ev'ry village mark'd with little spire, Embow'r'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed,...old, whom we school-mistress name ; Who boasts unruly brals with birch to tame ; They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the pow'r of this relentless... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 pàgines
...School-mistress name; Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame; They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, 15 Awed by the power of this relentless dame; And oft-times, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair, or task unconned, are sorely shent. Whilom a twig of small regard to see, Though now so wide its waving branches... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pàgines
...SHENSTONE FROM THE SCHOOLMISTRESS In ev'ry village marked with little spire, Embow'red in trees, and hardlv known to fame. There dwells, in lowly shed and mean...name, Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame; 5 They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed by the pow'r of this relentless dame, And ofttimes,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 pàgines
...And makes the happiness she does not find. 1oo 1748? 1749WILLIAM SHENSTONE FROM THE SCHOOLMISTRESS There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron...name, Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame; 5 They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed by the pow'r of this relentless dame, And ofttimes,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1908 - 398 pàgines
...name, Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame ; They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Aw'd by the power of this relentless dame And oft-times,...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 twig... | |
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