 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...skill, 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. [From The Deterted Pillage.} THE HAPPINESS OF PASSING ONE'S AGE... | |
 | Samuel Worcester - 1837 - 264 pages
...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 should carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot, Where many a time he... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 pages
...; Lands 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 though vanquish'd, he could argue still ; (l) [ " This is one of the most simple and sublime passages in English poetry." — GIFFORD. " As... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge ; In arguing too the parson own'd his skill, For e'en...could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumph'd is forgot.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge ; In arguing too the parson own'd his skill, Tor e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still; While words of learned length and thunderingsound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around, And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 pages
...too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge : In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill ; For e'en...still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all be knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumph'd... | |
 | American periodicals - 1840 - 560 pages
...too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauire : In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en...still ; While words of learned length and thund'ring Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, [sound And still they guzed, and mill the wonder grew, That... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...; Lands 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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...too; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage And e'en the story ran — that he could gauge: In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue (till ; While words of learned length, and thund'ring sound, Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...ran that he could guage ; In arguing too the parson own'd his skill, For, e'en though vanquish' d, he could argue still; While words of learned length, and thund'ring sound, Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around, And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one... | |
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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. 
