 | 1910 - 298 pages
...jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres ? What are...scorn their pother, — You can hang or drown at last ! OLIVER GOLDSMITH [1728-1774} 308 WHEN LOVELY WOMAN STOOPS WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly And finds... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1910 - 344 pages
...jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. ' When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full and spirits high — What are acres ? what are houses . Only dirt — or wet or dry.' Johnson's prologues, and his lines on the death of Robert Levet, are well known. Indeed, it is only... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1918 - 1120 pages
...jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres ? What are...scorn their pother ;You can hang or drown at last! 4fl. On the -Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Phy sic /^ONDEMN'D to Hope's delusive mine,... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 488 pages
...I, 281, note 4. * Johnson's Miscellanies, ed. Hill, I, 281. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full and spirits high — What are acres ? What are...scorn their pother, — You can hang or drown at last. How correct was Johnson's prophecy is shown by Hayward's remark on Sir John Lade : " He married a woman... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 492 pages
...Hill, I, 281. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full and spirits high — What are acres ? YVhat are houses ? Only dirt, or wet or dry. Should the...scorn their pother, — You can hang or drown at last. How correct was Johnson's prophecy is shown by Hayward's remark on Sir John Lade : " He married a woman... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 pages
...When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high— What are acres t What are houses t Only dirt, or wet or dry. Should the guardian friend...scorn their pother;— You can hang or drown at last! DAVID HUME (1711-76) A SCEPTIC ON SCEPTICISM NOTHING is more dangerous to reason than the flights of... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 528 pages
...jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres ? what are...of wilful waste ; Scorn their counsel, scorn their pother,You can hang or drown at last. To Stella Not the soft sighs of vernal gales, The fragrance of... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 430 pages
...jockey, call the pander. Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses. Pockets full and spirits high — What are acres ? what are houses ? Only dirt — or wet or dry. Johnson's prologues, and his lines on the death of Robert Levett, are well known. Indeed, it is only... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...Jockey, see the Pander, Bid them come, and take their fill. 328 When the bonny Blade carouses, Pockets full, and Spirits high, What are acres ? What are houses ? Only dirt, or wet or dry. If the Guardian or the Mother Tell the woes of wilful waste, Scorn their counsel and their pother,... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1927 - 496 pages
...jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres? What are...scorn their pother ;You can hang or drown at last ! To Mrs Thrale on her completing her thirty-fifth year r in danger, yet alive, 'We are come to thirty... | |
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Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander as it will ; Call the jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high — What are acres ? what are houses ? Only dirt, or wet... 
