 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...smiles his emptiness betray. As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Pope,Ep. toArb. EM1TLATION. Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes. Swift, Cad. and Van. END — see Futurity. O that a man might know The end of this day's business,... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...Lear. Act II. Sc. 4. When I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, • * » • * Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes; Each girl when pleased with what is taught Will have the teacher in her thought, • ***•* A blockhead with melodious... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 pages
...applied, Insensibly came on her side. It was an unforeseen event ; Things took a turn he never meant. Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes ; Each girl, when pleased with what is taught, Will have the teacher in her thought When miss delights in her spinet,... | |
 | Cyril L. C. Locke - English language - 1883 - 124 pages
...by Colley Gibber. 95. Now where we are I cannot tell, But I wish I could hear the Inchcape Bell. 96. Whoe'er excels in what we prize Appears a hero in our eyes. 97. It is remarked by an ancient historian that in peace children bury their parents; in war parents... | |
 | Cyril L. C. Locke - English language - 1885 - 114 pages
...bad government ? 95. Now where we are I cannot tell, But I wish I could hear the Inchcape Bell. 96. Whoe'er excels in what we prize Appears a hero in our eyes. 97. It is remarked by an ancient historian that in peace children bury their parents; in war parents... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - English essays - 1886 - 222 pages
...he never meant. Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero to our eyes; Each girl, when pleased with what is taught, Will have the teacher in her thought. When miss delights in her spinuet, A fiddler may a fortune get; A blockhead, with melodious voice In boarding-schools can have... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - English literature - 1889 - 460 pages
...applied, Insensibly came on her side. It was an unforeseen event ; Things took a turn he never meant. Whoe'er excels in what we prize Appears a hero in our eyes ; Each girl, when pleased with what is taught, Will have the teacher in her thought. When miss delights in her spinnet,... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo, r. SHENSTOXE — The School Mistress. St. 28. of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age. We hear from the pleased with what is taught, Will have the teacher in her thought. ****** A blockhead with melodious... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...sciences. SHAKSPEARE. He had charge my discipline to frame, And tutors nouriture to oversee. SPENSER. Whoe'er excels in what we prize Appears a hero in our eyes : Each girl, when pleased with what is taught, Will have the teacher in her thought : A blockhead with melodious voice... | |
 | Church music - 1906 - 316 pages
...As for the Roman lady and her teacher, we find Swift, in his cruel "Cadenus and Vanessa," declaring: When miss delights in her spinnet, A fiddler may a...blockhead, with melodious voice, In boarding-schools can have his choice; And oft* the dancing-master's art Climbs from the toe to touch the heart This... | |
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Whoe'er excels in what we prize, Appears a hero in our eyes: Each girl, when pleas'd with what is taught, Will have the teacher in her thought. When miss delights in her spinnet, A fiddler may a fortune get; A blockhead, with melodious voice, In boarding-schools... 
