 | Gleanings - 1805 - 232 páginas
...held a pair of sheers ; from his mouth, a table was pendent, on which, these words were inscribed : " I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, " Musing in my mind, what garment 1 shall wear." The Queen was delighted with his performance, commended his wit, and liberally... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1807 - 268 páginas
...pair of scissars in his hand, with a copy of verses underneath, beginning with the two following: — I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, Musing in my mind what raiment I shall wear. l!ondon, 1542. The Breviary of Health; wherein • are remedies for all diseases, and in which obscure... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 538 páginas
...invented by Andrew Borde, a facetious wit of those days. The print bears the following inscription: I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, Musing in my mind, what rayment I shall were ; For now I will were this, and now I will were that, And now I will were, what... | |
 | David Hughson - 1807 - 696 páginas
...hanging on his right arm, and a pair of sheers in his left hand; under which are the following lines; " I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, Musing in my rnyncle wiial raymont I shall were: For now I will were thv<, and now I will were that» And now I... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1808 - 392 páginas
...present as totally unlike what it was thirty years ago, as it is to the Grecian or Turkish habit. These people have always been thus capricious. Above two...here, Musing in my mind what raiment I shall wear, For now I will wear this, and now I will wear that, And now I will wear I cannot tell what. When J.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1808 - 410 páginas
...totally unlike what it was thirty years ago, as it is to the Grecian or Turkish habit. These people hare always been thus capricious. Above two centuries ago...here. Musing in my mind what raiment I shall wear, Por now.J will wear this, and now I wilL wear that, And pow.I will wear I cannot tell what. When J.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1808 - 414 páginas
...present as totally unlike what it was thirty years ago, as it is to the Grecian or Turkish habit. These people have always been thus capricious. Above two...with a pair of shears in one hand) and a piece of clpth, in the other, saying I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, ' Musing in my mind what raiment... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1808 - 274 páginas
...present, as totally unlike what it was thirty years ago as it is to the Grecian or Turkish habit. These people have always been thus capricious. Above two centuries ago a satirist heiv. painted one of his countrymen standing naked, with a pair of shears in one hand, and a piece... | |
 | 1814 - 262 páginas
...intention, they will now be parsons, lawyers, soldiers; or as Andrew Borde describes our countrymen, " I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, Musing in my mind, what raiment I shall wear; For now I will wear this, and now I will wear that, And now I will wear, I cannot tell what." Borde... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1816 - 600 páginas
...holding a piece of cloth in one hand, and я pair of shears in the other, with these verses underneath : I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, Musing in my miad what garment I shall wear. Before the seventh chapter is the picture of the author, standing in... | |
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I am an Englishman. and naked I stand here, Musing in my mind what raiment I shall wear, For now I will wear this, and now I will wear that, And now I will wear I cannot tell what. 
