 | Leslie Stephen - 1901 - 224 pàgines
...must die 1' " The ladies talk over it at their cards. They have learnt to show their tenderness, and " Receive the news in doleful dumps. The Dean is dead (pray what is trumps f ) ; Then Lord have mercy on his soul ! (Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.)" The poem concludes,... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1905 - 528 pàgines
...call themselves his friends : — My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learned to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps : "...(Pray, what is trumps ?) Then Lord have mercy on his soul ! (Ladies, I'll venture on the vole) ; Six deans, they say, must bear the pall (I wish I knew... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1905 - 470 pàgines
...puanteurs A week, and Arbuthnot a day.... My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learned to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps : ' The dean is dead (pray, whal is trumps?) Then, Lord, h'ave mercy on his soul ! (Ladies, l'H venture for the vole.) Six Jeans,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pàgines
...his ov--. "?sh and blood?"' . . . My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learned to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps: "The Dean is dead (and what is trumps?) . . . "Perhaps I may allow the Dean Had too much satire in his vein; And seemed... | |
 | Alan D. Chalmers - 1995 - 188 pàgines
...vanity and forgetfulness of mortality: My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learned to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps, "The Dean is dead, (and what is trumps?) Then Lord have mercy on his soul. (Ladies, I'll venture for the vole). Six deans... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 pàgines
...mourn for me without dissembling. My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learn'd to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps, 'The Dean is dead, (and what is trumps ?) Then, Lord have mercy on his soul. (Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.) Six... | |
 | Peter Hühn, Jens Kiefer - 2005 - 276 pàgines
...for me without dissembling. 225 MY female Friends, whose tender Hearts Have better learn 'd to act their Parts. Receive the News in doleful Dumps, "The Dean is dead, (and what is Trumps?) "Then Lord have Mercy on his Soul. 230 "(Ladies I'll venture for the Vole.) "Six... | |
 | Peter Childs, Roger Fowler - 2006 - 280 pàgines
...('Verses on the death of Dr Swift'): My female Friends, whose tender Hearts Have better learn 'd to act their Parts, Receive the News in doleful Dumps: 'The Dean is dead, (and what is Trumps?) The Lord have Mercy on his Soul!' (Ladies I'll venture for the Vole.*) * grand... | |
 | John Lennard - 2006 - 448 pàgines
...DSPD' (1731, 11. 225-42, N583) : My female Friends, whofe tender Hearts Have better learn'd to act their Parts, Receive the News in doleful Dumps, " The Dean is dead, (and what is Trumps?) " Then Lord have Mercy on his Soul. " (Ladies I'll venture for the Vole.0) all... | |
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I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend. 
