 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1873 - 730 páginas
...carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long agoThai he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. And now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his hack, And... | |
 | London Mayfair - 1874 - 468 páginas
...prest In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is...Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. THE LAST LEAF. 147 But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff; And a crook is... | |
 | American Dental Association - 1875 - 882 páginas
...whole system. We seldom see an old man, now-a-days. of the olden times — " One whose nose is thin And rests upon his chin Like a staff ; And a crook is in his back And a melancholy crack In his laugh ! "— with sunken cheeks and feeble and inarticulate voice. Our art has made them an almost extinct... | |
 | 1875 - 432 páginas
...prest In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago — 76 That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin,... | |
 | Charles Henry Jones - 1876 - 424 páginas
...prest In their bloom ; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago— THE LAST LEAF. That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose... | |
 | 1877 - 606 páginas
...others become so effete, and relapse into such dotage or feebleness, as to recall Holmes' lines : ' But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin...in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.' Juvenal declares, ' Old age is replete with many and great evils.' In some cases ' Old men are twice... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1878 - 708 páginas
...prest In (heir bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said, — Poor old lady, she is...That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rosn In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 páginas
...pressed In their bloom; And the names ho loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And Lie cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 páginas
...prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a yeat On the tomb. J My grandmamma has said, — Poor old lady, she is...in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. 1 1 know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 páginas
...poet of passion and pathos, although his forte is the grotesque: witness the following extracts : — But now his nose is thin, and it rests upon his chin...in his back, and a melancholy crack In his laugh. For I know it is a sin for me to sit and grin At him here ; But the old three-cornered hat, and the... | |
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But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. 
