 | Robert Southey - 1860
...spake, And sheepishly shook his head: — " I hastened, as soon as the wedding was done, And left my Wife in the porch ; But i' faith she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to church." WKSTBUKY, 1798. BISHOP BRUNO. " BRUNO, the Bishop of Herbipolitanum,... | |
 | J. C. - 1860 - 167 páginas
...sheepishly shook his head. THE WEU. OF ST. KEYNE. " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done. And left my wife in the porch: But i' faith she had been wiser than me. For she took a bottle to church." I NIOHT. NIGHT is the time for rest; How sweet, when labours... | |
 | Evenings - 1860
...Stranger spake, And sheepishly shook his head. " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch ; But i' faith she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to church." THE KING OP THE CROCODILES. PAET L "Now, Woman, why without your... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 552 páginas
...stranger spoke, And sheepishly shook his head. " I hastened as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch ; But i' faith she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church." LVIL — SUNRISE FROM MOUNT BRTDONE. [This extract Is from A Tour through Sicily and Malta, by E. BRYDONE,... | |
 | 1861
...our west-country husbands would have had no need to lament, in the words of Southey's ballad, — " But i' faith she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to chttrch." The water of St. Keyne's Well is still as clear as ever, and of the five trees once flourishing... | |
 | Jane Anne Winscom - 1861 - 436 páginas
..." I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was o'er, And left my good wife in the porch : • But, indeed, she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church." At the mouth of the inlet to which the canal passes, are East and West Looe, extremely pretty fishing... | |
 | Henry Besley - 1862
...overmatching her anxious but less witty husband, " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And I left my wife in the porch ; But i' faith she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to Chureh." Notwithstanding the unbelief of most strangers who visit the... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1863
...ballads where the Cornishman confesses, — ' I hastened, as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch ; But, i' faith, she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church.' Cornishmen, apparently, never forgave St. Keyne for the properties of her well ; for Carew, in his... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1863
...the Cornishman ' I hastened, as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch ; Bat, i' faith, she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church.' Cornishmen, apparently, never forgave St. Keyne for the properties of her well ; for Carew, in his... | |
 | 1883
...: — " I hastened as soon as the wedding was o'er. And left my good wife in the porch ; • But, r faith, she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church." H and I both drank of the limpid spring ; but I suppose old married people cannot expect any benefit... | |
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He to the Cornishman said. But the Cornishman smiled as the stranger spake And sheepishly shook his head. " I hastened as soon as the Wedding was done And left my wife in the porch. But i... 
