 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.  Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell - Side 32af Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 68 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Barber - 1828 - 310 sider
...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... | |
 | Henry Charles William Angelo - 1828 - 532 sider
...prigs, and kiddies rang'd around : And still they gap'd, and still the wonder grew, That one droll head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame — the Rose and Crown, Whore he so oft got tipsy — is burnt down. Near to the wardrobe stairs, one story... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 sider
...truth is clear, " WHATEVER is, is RIGHT." Ill, — Description of a Country Alehouse. — GOLDSMITH. NEAR yonder thorn that lifts its head on high, Where once the signpost caught the passing eye j Low lies that house, where nut brown draughts inspir'dj Where gray beard mirth, and smiling toil... | |
 | Henry Angelo - 1830 - 564 sider
...prigs, and kiddies rang'd around : And still they gap'd, and still the wonder grew, That one droll head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame — the Rose and Crown, Where he so oft got tipsy — is burnt down. Near to the wardrobe stairs, one story... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 sider
...; And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. Bat past is all his fame : the very spot Where many a time he triumph**!, is forgot, Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 sider
...he could argue still; While words of learned length, and thundering sound, Amazed the gazing rustics d smalihead could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame . the very spot Where many a time he triumphed,... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 sider
...prompt, at ev'ry call, [all. 30 sound, pain. And still they gaz'd ; and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot, 25 Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. NO. 91. DEATH. PQRTEUS. FRIEND to the wretch, whom every... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 sider
...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... | |
 | 1837 - 646 sider
...Beyond yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze, unprofitably gay.' There too is ' Near yonder thorn that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye ;' the house where nut-brown draughts inspired ; in short, even' striking object in the picture. There... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - 572 sider
...spread," " the straggling fence that skirts the way, with blossomed furze unprofitably gay," " the thorn that lifts its head on high, where once the sign-post caught the passing eye," " the house where nut-brown draughts inspired," in short every striking object in the picture. There... | |
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