In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed and mean attire, A matron old, whom we Schoolmistress name... Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young - Page 328edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
| Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...espy, Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. In every village marked with little spire, Embowered each the docile steed his road (Alike unknown tome ; They grievon sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed by the power of this relentless dame, And ofttimes,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...espy, Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. In every Tillage mark'd with little spire, Embowerd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells, in lowly shed, and mean attire, A mafron old, whom we school-mistress name ; Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame; They grieven... | |
| John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...the dreary shades of dull obscurity. 25* (298) In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells,...tame: They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed by the power of this relentless dame; And ofttimes, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair, or... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1857 - 864 pages
...espy, Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. In every village mark'd with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells,...tame ; They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed by the power of this relentless dame, And oft-times, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair,... | |
| Education - 1857 - 862 pages
...Lost in the dreary shades of dull oliscurity. In every village inark'd with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells,...tame ; They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed by the power of this relentless dame, And oft-times, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair,... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1857 - 866 pages
...espy, Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. In every village mark'd with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells,...tame ; They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed by the power of this relentless dame, And oft-times, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...obscurity. In every village mark'd with little spire, Embowcr'd in trees, and hardly known to iame, There dwells, in lowly shed, and mean attire, A matron old, whom we school-mistress name j Who boasts unruly brats with bireh to tame ; They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed by... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...espy, Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells,...tame : They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed by the power of this relentless dame ; And ofttimes, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...espy, Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells,...tame ; They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent, Awed by the power of tlu's relentless dame; And oft-times, on vagaries idly bent, For unkempt hair,... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1858 - 574 pages
...whom we schoolmistress name. Improved thus : — In every village mark'd with little spire, Embower'd in trees, and hardly known to fame, There dwells in...attire, A matron old, whom we schoolmistress name. The eighth stanza, in thejirst edition, runs, The gown, which o'er her shoulders thrown she had. Was... | |
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