 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned ; Yet he was kind, or if severe m many a trembling chord shakes out ; And the clear voice symphonious declared how much he knew ; 'T waa certain he could write, and cipher too ; 36 SPRING MARCH. Lands... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1856 - 194 pages
...whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. 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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...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; 'T was certain he could write and cipher too; Lands he could measure, terms... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1857 - 866 pages
...whisper circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. 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... | |
 | Education - 1857 - 862 pages
...whisper circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...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 conld measure, terms... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 pages
...whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd ; 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 — 'T":as certain he could write, and cipher too ; Lands he could measure,... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Wesley Etheridge - Church schools (Methodist) - 1858 - 584 pages
...whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet he was kind ; or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault." The progress of Adam Clarke's intellectual history will have our attention more fully hereafter. The only... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - England - 1859 - 618 pages
...whisper eireling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd : Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault ; The village all deelared how much he knew, Twas certain he could write, and eipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms... | |
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