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
| Henry Coppée - 1893 - 560 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... | |
| Robert Yelverton Tyrrell - 1895 - 354 pagini
...of Wisdom : " — " 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. " Gillian 's dead — God rest her bier ! How I loved her twenty years syne ! Marian 's married, but... | |
| 1895 - 416 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. THACKERAY. 283 Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. MACBETH iv. 3. JT^HE angel choirs... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - 478 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... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 pagini
...you come to Forty Year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pas?, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear; Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year. WILLIAM M. THACKERAY : Age of Wisdan. To train the foliage o'er the snowy lawn ; To guide the pencil,... | |
| Horace - 1898 - 538 pagini
...avoided is condere lustrum. Cf. rändere diem, 4. 5. 29. For thought, cf. Thackeray's Age of Reason : ' Then you know the worth of a lass | Once you have come to forty year.' Landor lowers the danger line by eight years : ' I know those ankles small and round | Are standing... | |
| Horace - 1898 - 538 pagini
...avoided is condere lustrum. Cf. condere diem, 4. 5. 29. For thought, cf. Thackeray's Age of Reason : ' Then you know the worth of a lass | Once you have come to forty year.' Landor lowers the danger line by eight years : ' I know those ankles small and round | Are standing... | |
| Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 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, All good fellows whose beards are gray : Did not the fairest of... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 384 pagini
...you've 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, <:The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The brightest eyes that... | |
| Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1901 - 494 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... | |
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