 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 546 páginas
...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, J ASPAR. TASPAR was poor, and vice and want J Had made his heart like stone : And Jaspar looked with... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 142 páginas
...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 OBSTINATE MAN. I'VE run against many strange folks in my... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1870
...shook his head, " I hasted as soon as the marriage was done, And left my wife in the porch ; But in faith she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church." Loe Pool, on the south coast, is separated from the sea by a broad bar of pebbles, shingle, and sand.... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1867 - 280 páginas
...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 OBSTINATE MAN. I'VE run against many strange folks in my... | |
 | 1867 - 464 páginas
...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.' SAINT PATRICK. DR. MAGINN. William Maginn, LL. D., the ' Modern... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867
...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' faith she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to church ! ' " From the reverence with which wells and foun tains were regarded,... | |
 | Tom Hood - 1869 - 252 páginas
...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." THR BALLAD OF POLLY HOPKINS. (Trciulated from the old Welsh of... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869
...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." 25.—THE FAKENHAM GHOST. . ROBERT BLOOMFIELD. [Author of " The... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1870
...wrote a pleasant ballad on the subject. The closing verse is full of very quiet humour : " I hastened as soon as the wedding was o'er And left my good wife...been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church." Local historians tell the story differently. There were two sisters, they say, daughters of a Liskeard... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 382 páginas
...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.' Southey. Ex. 205. The Razor-Seller. A fellow, in a market-town, Most musical cried razors up and down,... | |
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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... 
