...itself. If insufficient attention is paid to it then, in the end, no one will be interested. Epilogue The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stern to view, 1 knew him well and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters...

...1770) ^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,...and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed with counterfeited...

...fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school;...and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed, with counterfeited...

...likened it to a reasonable facsimile of himself—particularly the section where Goldsmith rendered: There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The...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 tremblers learn'd to trace...

...example, though occasionally connected with Goldsmith's own, is a character we immediately recognize: "The village master taught his little school; / A man severe he was, and stern to view" (196-97). Unsurprisingly, the schoolmaster is stern only on the outside: "Yet he was kind, or if severe...

...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...