 Where scripture sanctifies his strains, And reverence hides the want of brains. Next see our youth at school appear, Procured for forty pounds a year; His ragged regiment round assemble, Taught, not to read, but fear and tremble. Before him, rods prepare...  Progress of dulness. [Miscellaneous poems - Page 26by John Trumbull - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Charles William Everest - American literature - 1860 - 486 pages
...And Death and dire Dismay Unfold their universal grave, and ope the mighty urn. THE SCHOOLMASTER.* Next see our youth at school appear, Procured for...His ragged regiment round assemble, Taught, not to road, but fear and tremble. Before him, rods prepare his way, Those drcudud antidotes to play. Then... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...rests Secure from ridicule or jests; Where dreaded satire may not dare Offend his wig's extremest hair; Where Scripture sanctifies his strains, And reverence hides the want of brains. Next sec our youth at school appear, Procured for forty pounds a year; His ragged regiment round assemble,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 522 pages
...Secure from ridicule or jests ; Where dreaded satire may not dare Offend his wig's extremest hair ; Where Scripture sanctifies his strains, And reverence...Taught, not to read, but fear and tremble. Before him roils prepare his way, Those dreaded antidotes to play. Then throned aloft in elbow chair, With solemn... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - American literature - 1900 - 598 pages
...Secure from ridicule or jests ; Where dreaded satire may not dare Offend his wig's extremest hair ; Where scripture sanctifies his strains, And reverence hides the want of brains." Trumbull's other Hudibrastic work is a mock epic entitled " M'Fingal," written between 1774 and 1782,... | |
 | Norris Galpin Osborn - Connecticut - 1925 - 758 pages
...rests Secure from ridicule or jests; Where dreaded satire may not dare Offend his wig's extremest hair; Where scripture sanctifies his strains, And reverence hides the want of brains. The lines are not the best in "M'Fingal" but they are typical of its gaiety. How well the quotation... | |
 | Vernon Louis Parrington - American literature - 1926 - 592 pages
...Secure from ridicule or jests; Where dreaded satire may not dare Offend his wig's extremest hair;1 Where scripture sanctifies his strains, And reverence...and awful air, He tries, with ease and unconcern, j To teach what ne'er himself could learn; ยป Gives law and punishment alone, Judge, jury, bailiff,... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 pages
...of any special sanctity or zeal: Oft dulness flying from disgrace Finds safety in that sacred place; Where scripture sanctifies his strains, And reverence hides the want of brains. He prepares for his calling by Four years at college dozed away In sleep, and slothfulness and play,... | |
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