 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
 | John Macmillan Brown - 1894 - 436 páginas
...travels with a tutor, and, returning, " proclaims," •" By shrugs and strange contortions of the face How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home ". He closes with an attack on critics and interpreters of the Bible,... | |
 | Charles Dent Bell - 1895 - 296 páginas
...he says : " 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." Here are other lines " familiar as household words " : " Defend... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 páginas
...his primer, against the soldier in full military array. /. LORD BROUGHAM — Speech. Jan. 29, 1828. dunce that has been kept at home. g. COWPER — Progress of Error. L. 410. The Self-Educated are marked... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 páginas
...BYRON: 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,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1898 - 482 páginas
...bad inns, but vewy tino wuins; gives you quite a taste for that sort of thing! Evelyn (reading). '• How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home! " will, J suppose. Poor old Mordaunt!—I am his nearest male welation.... | |
 | William Henry Wheeler - 1899 - 228 páginas
...hast been! On thy seven hills of yore — ROBERT BURNS. Thou sat'st a queen. — FELICIA D. HEMANS. 8. How 'much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. Some words pronounced alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation.... | |
 | 1903 - 390 páginas
...bad inns, but vewy fine wuins — gives you quite a taste for that sort of thing! Eve.— (Reading.) "How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home! " Blount.~ Sir! Blount.— (Aside.) That fellow Cowper says vewy... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 716 páginas
...the man ; 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. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, And wisdom falls before... | |
 | 1911 - 860 páginas
...international relations ? Why ? Composition anglaise (D). Explain and eularge upon the following : « How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home ! » (Cowper, the Progress of Error.} Then point out the evergrowing... | |
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