 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
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1906 - 548 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. Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are gray, Did not the fairest of the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 332 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1887 - 892 pagini
...with its lesson — " 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." But add twenty years more, and the sage of forty may come to a different conclusion. Sixty is often a very... | |
 | 1907 - 394 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... | |
 | Charles Welsh - 1908 - 136 pagini
...you roam, Whenever the health of dear woman goes 'round, Remember the smiles that adorn her at home. Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass Once you have come to forty year. Tho' the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me, In exile... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 390 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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 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... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1116 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 l.tss, Once you have come to Forty Year. A popular proverb tells us that at forty a man is either a... | |
 | Sir James Henry Yoxall - 1909 - 344 pagini
...were whist indeed. For many a Michaelmas had come and gone. " Forty yean over let Michaelmas pass, Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a la»s, Once you have come to Forty Tear.'' When Goethe used to hum his " Lieb, o liebe, so golden schon,"... | |
 | Elizabeth Williams Champney - 1910 - 628 pagini
...Age of Wisdom: Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear, Then yon 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 I... | |
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