 | Francis Adams - 1882 - 370 страници
...early period, like the one of our own day, usually combined other occupation with her teaching :— \" Where sits the dame, disguised in look profound, And...eyes her fairy throng, and turns her wheel around." The marked increase in the number of these schools provoked Mandeville's Essay on Charity Schools,... | |
 | Francis Adams - 1882 - 490 страници
...early period, like the one of our own day, usually combined other occupation with her teaching : — " Where sits the dame, disguised in look profound, And...eyes her fairy throng, and turns her wheel around." The marked increase in the number of these schools provoked Mandeville's Essay on Charity Schools,... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 страници
...inteemix'd, which thence resound, Do learning's little tenement betray, Where sits the dame, disguis'd in look profound, And eyes her fairy throng, and turns her wheel around. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield; Her apron dy'd in... | |
 | 1885 - 668 страници
...weakly wights of smaller size should stray, Eager, perdie, to bask in sunny day ! The noises intermix'd, which thence resound, Do learning's little tenement betray, Where sits the dame, disguis'd in look profound, And eyes her fairy throng, and turns her wheel around. Her cap, far whiter... | |
 | 1886 - 564 страници
...ing-board is seen, Lest weakly wights of smaller size should stray, Eager, perdie, to bask in sunny day. The noises intermixed which thence resound Do Learning's...eyes her fairy throng and turns her wheel around. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield, Her apron dyed in... | |
 | Charles John Abbey - 1887 - 426 страници
...impelled by need, Into her school, begirt with chickens, came. Then wo sec her at her daily task, — Where sits the dame, disguised in look profound And eyes her fairy throng, and turns the wheel around. Right well she knew each temper to descry ; To thwart the proud, and the submiss... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1890 - 394 страници
...wights of smaller size should stray ; Eager, perdie, to bask in sunny day ! The noises intermix'd, which thence resound, Do Learning's little tenement betray ; Where sits the dame, disguis'd in look profound, And eyes her fairy throng, and turns her wheel around. Her cap, far whiter... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - 1892 - 694 страници
...weakly wights of smaller size' should stray ; Eager, perdie, to bask in «"r The noises intermix'd, which thence resound, Do learning's little tenement...eyes her fairy throng, and turns her wheel around. VI. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield : Her apron dyed... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - 1892 - 620 страници
...quaint old Thomas Fuller and put it alongside the Blimbers, and to place Shenstone's village school, " where sits the dame disguised in look profound, And...eyes her fairy throng, and turns her wheel around," in juxtaposition with the immaculate Miss Pinkerton's most respectable seat of learning on Chiswick... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1896 - 546 страници
...imprisoning-board is seen, Lest weakly wights of smaller size should stray, Eager, perdie, to bask in sunny day. The noises intermixed which thence resound Do Learning's...eyes her fairy throng and turns her wheel around. Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield, Her apron dyed in... | |
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Near to this dome is found a patch so green On which the tribe their gambols do display. And at the door... 
