 Returning, he proclaims by many a grace, By shrugs and strange contortions of his face, How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.  The Lincoln pocket guide - Página 2de sir Charles Henry J. Anderson (bart.) - 1880 - 80 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1876 - 442 páginas
...with it. When the young Englishman returned with that diploma of travel, he made it a point to show "How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce who has been kept at home." And a main point of such superiority consisted in depreciating all... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1876 - 40 páginas
...Deserted Village." (//) To devout women she assigns spiritual functions, dignities, and magistracies. (c) How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, Excels a dunce that has been kept at home! (c) One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. (rf) To allow the... | |
 | 1876 - 786 páginas
...with it. When the young Englishman returned with that diploma of travel, he made it a point to show ' How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce who has been kept at home.' And a main point of such superiority consisted in depreciating all... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 páginas
...within. — Cawfer. Returning he proclaims by many a grace By shrugs and strange contortions of his face, nded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see t dunce that has been kept at home. •_ Cawper. 3366. TREASON. SMOOTH runs the water where the brook... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 páginas
...: Corsair. Returning, he proclaims by many a grace, By shrugs and strange contortions of his face, How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. COWPER : Progress of Error. Nature, like a weak and weary traveller,... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 páginas
...gentility to beguile the dinner hour by a promenade near hia tomb in old St. Paul's — YONOE. Dunce. — How much a DUNCE that has been sent to roam, Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. COWPER, The Progress of Error. Dust. — DUST to dust. — Commoii... | |
 | Charles Mills - 1879 - 396 páginas
...frae travel, because he assumes to himsel' a' the advantages it is believed to bestow, thus shewin' " How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home." Of a' the fules in the warld nane is sae stoopit as the travelled... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 páginas
...Italian shrug: Returning, he proclaims, by many a grace, By shrugs and strange contortions of his face, How much a dunce, that has been sent to roam, Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. Perhaps the finest metaphor in Cowper's works is contained in the... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 páginas
...TRAVELLING— coniinued. Returning he proclaims by many a grace, By shrugs and strange contortions of his face, How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. Coioper, Prog. of Er. I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 páginas
...hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character. fc. HOSEA BALLOO— MSS. Sermons. XUMMOND dunce, that has been kept at home, t COWPER— Proyress of Error. Line 415. The Self-Educated are marked... | |
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