| John William Carleton - 1845 - 700 páginas
...* * * Oh, it settles the spirits, when nothing is seen But an ass on a common, a goose on a green. In town let me live, then ; In town let me die ; For,...summer to dwell, Oh, give me the sweet shady side of Pall-mall." Now, without going quite the length of the captain in his ideas, we are " free to confess,"... | |
| Charles Morris - 1840 - 722 páginas
...eye ; But in London these devils so quick fly about, That a new devil still drives an old devil out. In town let me live then, in town let me die ; For...dwell, Oh, give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall ! SEPARATION. FAR from my love, alas ! I mourn, For Fate has torn our hearts in twain ; Long, self-consuming,... | |
| John Timbs - 1840 - 430 páginas
...Nestor of Song had retired to enjoy the delights of rural life, despite the prayer of his racy verse:] In town let me live then, In town let me die ; For...dwell, Oh ! give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall. [Again, there is no " biographical sketch of the author " prefixed to these songs, which we take to... | |
| 1841 - 1440 páginas
...town let me live, and in town let me die; For in tiuth I can't relish the country, not I. If one mvit have a villa in summer to dwell, Oh, give me the sweet shady side of Pall. Mallt" George IV. was too old when ho came to the throne to give much animation to English society... | |
| John William Carleton - 1847 - 556 páginas
...and who fully bear out the Anacreontic Captain Morris in his sentiments of town and country life : " In town let me live, then ; in town let me die ; For...dwell, Oh, give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall." But to our sports. We will commence with the winter. Act the first, scene the first, must introduce... | |
| Charles Maybury Archer - 1848 - 292 páginas
...Nestor of song had retired to enjoy the delights of rural life, despite the prayer of his racy verse : " In town let me live, then, in town let me die ; For...Oh ! give me the sweet, shady side of Pall Mall." Captain Morris was born about the middle of the last century, and outlived the majority of the ban... | |
| 1849 - 508 páginas
...a house is much more to my taste than a tree, And for groves, oh ! a grove of good chimnies for me. If one must have a villa in summer to dwell, Oh ! give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall !" In fact, my dear Melfont, London is the only place for a man whose heart has become completelyv... | |
| 1924 - 566 páginas
...Contrast,' in the last stanza of which will be found the line by which Morris is perhaps best known : Tn town let me live then, in town let me die, For in truth I enn't relish the country. not I. If one must have a villa in summer to dwell, <). give me the sweet... | |
| 1853 - 1074 páginas
...eye ; But In London these devils so quick fly about, That a new devil still drives an old devil out. In town let me live then, in town let me die ; For...dwell, Oh, give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall! Of Morris's graver poems there are some very beautiful specimens in these volumes. He is one of these... | |
| John Timbs - 1855 - 1026 páginas
...: entrance-fee 25 guineas ; annual subscription, first five years 101. 10*., subsequently SI. 8».* The south side of Pall Mall has a truly patrician...can't relish the country, not I. If one must have a villi in summer to dwell, Oh, give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall." ROXBCBGHE CLUB (the) was... | |
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