| English poems - 1870 - 722 páginas
...is a parody on the style of Milton, has always been very popular.] H APPY the man, who, void of care and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains...Splendid shilling : he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale ; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie,... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...which even able men will sometimes entertain. The Splendid Shilling. Happy the man who, void of care cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale ; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 páginas
...Muse I Things unattcmpted yet, in prose or rhyme,' A shilling, breeches, and chimeras dire." HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leather purse retains A Splendid Shilling : he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 páginas
...Muse ! Things unattuinpu-d >u. in jirobc or rhyme,' A shilling, brecclie*. and chimera* dire." HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leather purse retains A Splendid Shilling : he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1877 - 308 páginas
...heavenly Muse I Things unattempted yet, iu prose or rhyme," A shilling, breeches, and chimeras dire. HAPPY the man, who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leather purse retains A Splendid Shilling : he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1877 - 312 páginas
...breeches, and chimeras dire. HAPPY the man, who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leather purse retains A Splendid Shilling : he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale ; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie,... | |
| William Michael Rossetti - 1878 - 510 páginas
...heavenly Muse ! Things unattemptcd yet, in prose or rhyme," A Shilling, Breeches, and Chimeras dire. HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or...Splendid Shilling. He nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale ; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie... | |
| Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1878 - 814 páginas
...an amusing parody of the style of Milton : it sets out thus : — Happy the man, who, void of care and strife, In silken or in leathern purse, retains...Splendid Shilling: he nor hears with pain, New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale. Our shortening space forbids our offering our readers any account... | |
| G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 páginas
...SHEPHERD'S BOY, piping as though he never should be old. — SIDNEY, Arcadia, book i. Shilling. — Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A splendid SHILLING. — J. PHILLIPS, The Snlendid ShMing. Shriek. — A solitary SHRIEK, the bubbling cry Of some strong... | |
| Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 414 páginas
...attention to the beauties of Milton. A splendid shilling: he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale ; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise To Juniper's Magpie or Town Hall* repairs. Meanwhile he smokes and laughs at merry tale, Or pun ambiguous or conumdrum quaint;... | |
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