 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 614 lehte
...too ; Lands he could measure, terms and titles presage, And e'en the story ran that lu1 could gauge : In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en...rustics ranged around — And still they gazed, and slill the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all he knew. There are certain whimsical traits... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 lehte
...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... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 lehte
...too; Lauds he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could guage ; In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en...learned length and thund'ring sound, Amazed the gazing rusties ranged around; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 lehte
...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... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 lehte
...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... | |
 | 1921 - 362 lehte
...performed it, but Dr. Figgis brought to it the resources of a wonderfully wide and thorough erudition — "Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew." Lecture I on the general scope of the De Civitate Dei gives an... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 lehte
...account of the village schoolmaster, for example: . . . While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around; And...grew That one small head could carry all he knew. But in his more serious portraits, such as his account of the dispossessed and emigrant poor, his melodramatic... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 lehte
...grows, How one small face can carry So much nose. ARTHUR H. GILLMOR This may be a parody on Goldsmith's: Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. He was speaking about the village schoolmaster. Gazing rustics... | |
 | Pope John Paul I - 2001 - 292 lehte
...Goldsmith's schoolchildren did in The Deserted Village: '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.' Let me make myself clear, I'm not so ingenuous as to make myths... | |
 | John Foster, Gordon Dennis - 1995 - 136 lehte
...skill, For even tho' vanquished, he could argue still, 20 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. OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-74) terms - days when quarterly accounts... | |
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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. 
