 Wait till you come to Forty Year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear— Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year.  Hermathena - Pagina 4141901Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | William Alexander Clouston - 1889 - 646 pagini
...where we are told that " Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear ; Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lassj Once you've come to Forty Year ! " And do we not speak of a buxom dame as "fat, fair, andyfcrr>"?... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 452 pagini
...you come to Forty Year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear— Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year. Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, Did not the fairest of the fair All good fellows whose beards are... | |
 | Walter Learned - 1891 - 404 pagini
...you come to Forty Year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear — Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year. Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are gray. Did not the fairest of the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 458 pagini
...'ve come to forty year I " Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear; Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to forty year. " Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are gray : Did not the fairest of... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 458 pagini
...you come to Forty Year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear — Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year. Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are grey, Did not the fairest of the... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - 1891 - 478 pagini
...you come to Forty Year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clearThen you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year. Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are grey, Did not the fairest of the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1892 - 592 pagini
...phrases, in reading : ' Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear — Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year. ' Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, AU good fellows whose beards are grey, Did not the fairest of... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pagini
...come to Forty Year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear, — Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year. A popular proverb tells us that at forty a man is either a physician or a fool, which means that if... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pagini
...page with the dimpled chin, Wait till you come to Forty Year. Grizzling hair the brain doth clear,— Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Once you have come to Forty Year. A popular proverb tells us... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1892 - 598 pagini
...let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear — Then you know a boy is an ass, Theu yon know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year. ' Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are grey, Did not the fairest of... | |
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