 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 324 pàgines
...brains, Billing and cooing is all your cheer, Sighing and singing of midnight strains Under Bonnybells' window-panes. Wait till you've come to forty year ! Forty times over let Michaelnmss pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear ; Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 260 pàgines
...cheer ; Sighing and singing of midnight strains, Under Bonn/bell's window panes, — "Wait till you come to Forty Year ! Forty times over let Michaelmas...worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year. (88) Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are gray, Did not the fairest... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 538 pàgines
...brains, Billing and cooing is all yonr cheer, Sighing and singing of midnight straius Und<.-r Bunnybells' window-panes. Wait till you've come to forty year...Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear ; Then yon know a boy is an ass, Ihen yon know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to forty year. Pledge... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 148 pàgines
...year ! Forty times over lot Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear ; Then you know r. boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to furty year. Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are grey : Did not the... | |
 | Andrew Halliday - 1866 - 344 pàgines
...Thackeray, in one of the pleasantest of his satires—the continuation of Ivanhoe—makes his Wamba sing: " Forty times over let Michaelmas pass— Grizzling...worth of a lass, Once you have come to forty year." Now, as to the worth of a lass, I think there are occasions when you may be brought to have a full... | |
 | Andrew Halliday Duff - 1866 - 328 pàgines
...one of the pleasantest of his satires — the continuation of Ivanhoe — makes his Wamba sing : " Forty times over let Michaelmas pass — Grizzling...worth of a lass, Once you have come to forty year." Now, as to the worth of a lass, I think there are occasions when you may be brought to have a full... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1866 - 240 pàgines
...cheer; Sighing and finging of midnight ftrains, Under BonnybelTs window-panes, — . Wait till you come to Forty Year ! Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clearThen you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1870 - 686 pàgines
...come to lorty year ! ' Forty times over let Michaelmas рass, Grizzling hair the brain doth tk-itr — Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a KIÄ», Once yon have come to forty year. ' Fledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose... | |
 | Life - 1873 - 342 pàgines
...than was ever experienced by a black negro slave — after borrowing comes paying back. CHAPTER X. " Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair...worth of a lass, Once you have come to forty year." THACKERAY. " His lordship wishes to speak to you in the library, sir, for a few minutes, if you are... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pàgines
...cheer, — Sighing, and singing of midnight strains, Under Bonnybell's window-panes, — Wait till you irest of the fair Common grow and wearisome ere Ever...have kissed, The brightest eyes that ever have shone loss, — Once you have come to forty year. Pledge me round ; I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose... | |
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Wait till you come to Forty Year ! Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear — Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year. 
