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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. "
The wits and beaux of society, by Grace and Philip Wharton - Page 241
by Katherine Thomson - 1860
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The tablets of the heart: poems, rhymes, and aphorisms, selected and ...

Frederick Langbridge - 1883 - 438 pages
...learned to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps : " The Dean is dead. (Pray, what is trumps ?) Then, Lord have mercy on his soul ! (Ladies,...bear the pall. (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend ? No, madam, 'tis a shocking sight;...
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Az Angol irodalom története, Volume 3

Hippolyte Taine - 1883 - 516 pages
...better learned to act their parts, Beceive the news in doleful dumps : «The dean is dead (pray, what is trumps?) Then, Lord, have mercy on his soul ! (Ladies,...bear the pall. (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend ? No, madam, 'tis a shocking sight...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: containing additional letters ..., Volume 14

Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 pages
...learn 'd to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps : " The Dean is dead : (Pray what is trumps ?) Then, Lord have mercy on his soul ! (Ladies,...bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend. No, madam, 'tis a shocking sight :...
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British Classical Authors. Select Specimens of the National Literature of ...

Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...better learned to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps: 'The dean is dead (pray, what is d * 1 knew what king to call.) Madnrn, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend: No, madam,...
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English Letters and Letterwriters of the Eighteenth Century: With ...

Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 634 pages
...better learned to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps: ' The Dean is dead (pray what is trumps ? ) Then, Lord have mercy on his soul! , (Ladies,...bear the pall— (I wish I knew what king to call! ) ' • No, Madam, 'tis a shocking eight, And he's engaged to-morrow night i My Lady Clnb will take...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780).

Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 440 pages
...learn'd to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps : ' The Dean is dead : (Pray what is trumps?) Then, Lord have mercy on his soul ! (Ladies,...bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend ? No, madam, 'tis a shocking sight...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780).

Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 454 pages
...learn'd to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps : ' The Dean is dead : (Pray what is trumps?) Then, Lord have mercy on his soul ! (Ladies,...bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend ? { No, madam, 'tis a shocking sight:...
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A History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1600-1780).

Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 462 pages
...learn'd to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps : ' The Dean is dead : (Pray what is trumps?) Then, Lord have mercy on his soul ! (Ladies,...bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend ? No, madam, 'tis a shocking sight...
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The Wits and Beaux of Society, Volume 1

Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1890 - 322 pages
...Londres, and after dat a waggoner take up the body and put it in his cart. Queen, [to PRINCESS EMII.Y.] Are you not ashamed, Amalie, to laugh? Princess Emily....witness the death-bed of the queen, for whose amusement he had penned the jeu d'esprit just quoted, in which there was, perhaps, as much truth as wit. The...
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - 1890 - 364 pages
...doleful dumps: " The Dean is dead: (Pray what is trumps f) * Sir Robert Walpole's antagonist, I'ulteney. Then Lord have mercy on his soul! (Ladies, I'll venture...for the vole.)" " Six Deans, they say, must bear the pail (/ wish I knew what king to call.)" " Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a...
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