...fresh instruction from Helps, Clerk to the Privy Council: Whose 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 should carry all he knew. In April 1866, the correspondent for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine...

...skill, For even tho' 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. The schoolmaster's prestige is based on knowing what the others...

...gauge. In arguing too, the parson owned his skill, For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still; Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, And still...is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumphed is forgot. Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the signpost caught...

...skill, For e'en tho'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. a— MftRTJI^lrTO (James Thomson, 1700-48) ft <H^ff > (The Seasons)...