...began.... Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze16 unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school;17 1 10 A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well...

...the plain'. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding...

...likened it to a reasonable facsimile of himself—particularly the section where Goldsmith rendered: There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stem to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding...

...^g^^ ' 193-216 Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school: A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding...

...lot of their communities through the advancement of learning. As Oliver Goldsmith described one such: There in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school; Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault.1 Their motivation...