 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 pages
...we be permitted to advert to one instance where sketching the village schoolmaster we are told — " Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault." But this may have been merely a remnant of that provincialism which occasionally clung to him in manner,... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 pages
...permitted to advert to one instance where sketching the village schoolmaster we are told — " Vet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault." But this may have been merely a remnant of that provincialism which occasionally clung to him in manner,... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, Irish - 1837 - 606 pages
...we be permitted to advert to one instance where sketching the village schoolmaster we are told — " Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he hore to learning was in fault.'' But this may have been merely a remnant of that provincialism which... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...had he ; Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned ; Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault ; The village all declared how much he knew ; 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms... | |
 | James Wilson - Biography - 1838 - 372 pages
...Encyclopaedia. Musical Biography, vol. 2nd. THE LIFE OF THOMAS HOLLAND, OF MANCHESTER, THE BLIND TEACHER. '< Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was his fault" A few particulars in the history of this interesting character appeared in some of the periodical... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd ; Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught,...how much he knew ; Twas certain he could write and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...many a joke had he ; ) Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd ; Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught,...fault ; The village all declar'd how much he knew ; f 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too ; ) Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper circh'ng round, Convey 'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd : Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught,...he bore to learning was in fault ; The village all declared how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write, and cypher too ; Lands he could measure, terms... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd ; Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught,...he bore to learning was in fault ; The village all declared how much he knew — 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too ; Lands he could measure,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 pages
...many a joke had he ; Full well the busy whisper circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd : Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught,...he bore to learning was in fault ; The village all declared how much he knew, "Twas certain he could write and cypher too ; Lands he could measure, terms... | |
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Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault... 
