 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 - Seite 29von Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 218 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Henry Barnard - 1857 - 866 Seiten
...Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around ; And still they gaz'd ; and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew But past is all...very spot Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. JAMES DELILLE, 1738 — 1813. JAMES DELILLE, was born in Auvignon, in 1733, educated in Paris, and... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1857 - 864 Seiten
...rustics rang'd around ; And still they gnz'd ; and still the wonder grew, That one small head could cany all he knew But past is all his fame ; the very spot Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. JAMES BEL1LLE, 1738 — 1813. JAMES DELUXE, was bom in Auvignon, in 1733, educated in Paris, nnd made... | |
 | 1847 - 900 Seiten
...though vanquished he could argue still ¡ While words of learned length, and thundering sound, Amased the gazing rustics ranged around. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew !" r^ Yet when we consider that the generation has not yet passed... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1857 - 470 Seiten
...thundering sotad That one small head could carry all he knew. And etill they gazed and still the wonder grew But past is all his fame the very spot Where many a time he triumphed is forgot.—GOLDSMITH. LABORED STYLE. The Good Housewife.—Next unto her sanctity and holiness... | |
 | 1857 - 862 Seiten
...Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around ; And still they gaz'd ; and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew But past is all his fame j the very spot Where many a time he triumph'd, is forgot. JAMES DELILLE, 1738 — 1813. JAMES DELILLE,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 Seiten
...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 and tides presage,...around — And still they gazed, and still the wonder giew, That one. small head could carry all he knew." There are certain whimsical traits in the char,... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 Seiten
...skill, For even though vanquished he could argue still ; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; And...all his fame : the very spot Where many a time he triumphed, is forgot. THE VILLAGE INN. Near yonder thorn that lifts its head on high, Where once the... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
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