 | Robert McLean Cumnock - 1882 - 420 páginas
...resound As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets So forlorn; And he shakes his feeble head,... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 páginas
...resound As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in hia prime, Ere the pruning-knife of time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. JOHN JANKIN'S SERMON. 543 But now he walks the streets, And be looks at all he meets So forlorn ; And... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 48 páginas
...totters o'er the ground IK With his cane. They say that in his prime, £ Ere the pruning-knife of Time t~ Cut him down, *" Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. V ^ But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets ,-T Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1885 - 996 páginas
...came hither an old, old man, such as he of whom " They say that in his prime. Ere the priming-knife of time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town." On one of the exquisite days of summer, when the atmosphere seemed surcharged matter from his mind... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 páginas
...down. What is the figure of speech? CLASSIC ENGLISH READER. Not a better man. was found By the crier1 on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan ; And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, — " They are gone." The... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1886 - 752 páginas
...resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By...he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy... | |
 | 1886 - 552 páginas
...hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer." They say that in his prime. Ere the priming-knife of time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By...he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, And it seems as if he said, "They are gone." The mossy... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 páginas
...resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. 8. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down. Not a better man was found By the crier on his round 3. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan; And he shakes his feeble... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1887 - 596 páginas
...resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By...he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, " They are gone." The mossy... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1887 - 410 páginas
...resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By...he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone." The mossy... | |
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Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They... 
