| 1817 - 292 páginas
...I'm shivering wet, while all things round are drying. 'Tis worse, far worse, than standing with hare feet At Christmas, doing penance in a sheet! I pace...Falstaff says) on every hedge." There fringed curtains waft like clouds in air, Hach ruffled shirt's " a ravell'd sleeve of care." Vninly I muse on poesy... | |
| 1818 - 428 páginas
...ihiv'riujf wet, when all things round are FrGITIVE VOETOV. 22=; ' I >• wone, far worn, than standing wilh bare feet At Christmas, doing penance in a sheet ! I pace the garden, heavy as a sledge, ' Linen (as Falstuffsays) on ever; hedge.' There fringed euitains waft like clouds in air, Each raffled shirt's... | |
| Solomon Piggott - 1824 - 422 páginas
...sarcastic levity : ' An ironing-day 's an iton age to me — Too sad a truth, although 'tis irony ! I pace the garden, heavy as a sledge, "Linen," as Falstaff says, "on every hedge." Each holly-bush, tall shrub, or painted post, A pallid spectre seems, or green-eyed ghost ! From boughs... | |
| 1818 - 694 páginas
...trying, [drrilI'm shir'ring wet, when all things round in S21 Tis wane, far worse, than standing w ith bare feet At Christmas, doing penance in a sheet ! I pace the garden, heavy ai a sledge, * Linen (as FalsfaflT says) on every hedge." There fringed curtains waft like clouds in... | |
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