 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 and Essays - Стр. 29авторы: Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - Страниц: 218Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - 1853
...For e'en though vanquished he could argue still, While words of wond'rous length and thundering siund Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, And still they gazed and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew." Yet it is a subject for congratulation that this state of things... | |
 | English poetry - 1853
...skill, For even, 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 grow, That one small head could carry all he knew. GOLDSMITH. PART IIL-POETS OF THE ELIZABETHAN AGE.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854
...e'en the story ran — that he could gauge : In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For ev'n though vanquish'd he could argue still ; While words...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. "\ But-past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - 1854 - Страниц: 303
...skill, ; For even though vanquish'd, he could argue still ; While words oflearned 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. 1 ' Tall cliff: ' imitated from Young, and by him from Clandian.... | |
 | George Croly (Rev., ed) - 1854
...skill, For even though vanquished, he could argue still ; ivhile 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. Jn passed i- all his fame : the very spnt, Where many a time he... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - Страниц: 166
...skill, For even 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. Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854
...around; And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. 1 But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. 4T Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854
...around ; And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.1 But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. 1 Goldsmith is here supposed to have drawn the portrait of his own early instructor, Mr. TLomas Byrne,... | |
 | 1854
...skill, For e en though vanquished he could argue still; While words of learned 1er gth, and thund ring sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, And still they gazed, and still their wonder grew, That one small head should carry all he knew." And the scholars who crowded into... | |
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