Oh ! let him alone, For making a blunder, or picking a bone. But hang it - to poets who seldom can eat, Your very good mutton's a very good treat; Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt, It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. Lives of wits and humourists - Página 313de John Timbs - 1862Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 páginas
...alone recognisable now. (Monroe was Lord Townshend's Dorothy, to whose charms he devoted his verse.) But hang it . . to poets who seldom can eat, Your very good mutton 'sa very good treat; Such dainties to them ! it would look like a flirt, Like Bcuding 'em ruffles... | |
| John Forster - 1848 - 740 páginas
...alone recognisable now. (Monroe was Lord Townshend's Dorothy, to whose charms he devoted his verse.) But hang it . . to poets who seldom can eat, Your very good mutton "sa very good treat; Such dainties to them ! it would look like a flirt, Like sending 'em ruffles... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 406 páginas
...rasher, of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it was fry'd in. ******* But hang it — to poets, who seldom can eat, Your...Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt ; It s like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt." We have an amusing anecdote of one of Goldsmith's... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 1154 páginas
...They'd as soon think of eating the pan it was frj'd in. But hang it — to poets, who seldom can cat, Your very good mutton's a very good treat ; Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt ; 1C s like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt." We have an amusing anecdote of one of Goldsmith's... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 páginas
...beef. There's my countryman, Higgins — Oh ! let him alone, For making a blunder or picking a bone. But hang it — to poets who seldom can eat, Your...centred, An acquaintance, a friend as he call'd himself, enter'd ; An under-bred, fine-spoken fellow was he, And he smil'd as he look'd at the Ven'son and me.|... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 páginas
...procerum : mihi Musa supersit Et Ratio et Virtus : his nil me dotibus orbat. The Haunch of Venison. While thus I debated, in reverie centred, An acquaintance — a friend, as he call'd himself — cnter'd ; An underbred, fine-spoken fellow was he, And he smiled as he looked at the venison and... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 páginas
...beef; There's my countryman Higgins — oh ! let him alone For making a blunder or picking a bone. But hang it — to poets who seldom can eat, Your...wanting a shirt. While thus I debated, in reverie centered, An acquaintance, a friend as he called himself, entered ; An underbred, fine spoken fellow... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 páginas
...love beef; There's my countryman Higgins— oh 1 let him alone For making a blunder or picking a bone. But hang it — to poets who seldom can eat, Your...wanting a shirt. While thus I debated, in reverie centered, An acquaintance, a friend as he called himself, entered ; An underbred. fine spoken fellow... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 páginas
...countryman, Iliggins — oh, let him alone For ma-king a blunder, or picking a bone : But, hang it I tc poets. who seldom can eat Your very good mutton's...sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. While thus 1 debsied, in reverie centred, An acquaintance — a friend, as he call'd himself— enter'd ; An under-bred,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 páginas
...rasher, of what they take pride in, They'd as soon think of eating the pan it was fry'd in. ******* But hang it — to poets, who seldom can eat, Your...Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt ; If s like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt." We have an amusing anecdote of one of Goldsmith's... | |
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