 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1877
...ascendency in domestic affairs. The mystical well is the subject of a ballad, by Southey, which concludes with the following lines :— "I hasten'd as soon...been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church ! " S. TRIDUANA, V. (DATE UNCERTAIN.) [Aberdeen and Arbuthnot Kalendars. The Martyrologies of Dempster... | |
 | Sabine Baring Gould - 1877
...ascendency in domestic affairs. The mystical well is the subject of a ballad, by Southey, which concludes with the following lines : — " I hasten'd as soon...been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church !" S. TRIDUANA, V. (DATE UNCERTAIN.) [Aberdeen and Arbuthnot Kalendars. The Martyrologies of Dempster... | |
 | Alfred Macleod - 1877
...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. MEDDLESOME MATTY.— (Jane Jaylor) O. how one ugly trick may spoil The sweetest and the best ! Matilda,... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1879
...his head. " I hastened as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch ; But in truth she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church ! " ROBERT SOOTHEY.* 1 But has heard. — Who has not heard. 2 An — the same word as and, with the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877
...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." ROBERT SOUTHEY. TOBY TOSSPOT. ALAS ! what pity 't is that regularity,... | |
 | Edward Bradbury - 1879 - 80 páginas
...ballad the husband hastened, as soon as the wedding service was over, to the Cornish well, and left his wife in the porch, But i' faith she had been wiser than he, For she took a bottle to church. The Matlock multitude adopt Mrs. Brown's precaution to insert... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1880
...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." WESTBUBY, 1798. BISHOP BRUNO. u BRUNO, the Bishop of Herbipolitannm,... | |
 | James Booth (head master of the Caledonian schools, Liverpool) - 1881
...head. ' I hastened as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch • But in truth she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church ! ' NOTE, — This poem is written in imitation of the old ballads. THE SAILOE'S MOTHER. (WoRDswoRTH.)... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 584 páginas
...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 ! Southey. St. Kieran's Chair. A very ancient and venerated stone... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1002 páginas
...stranger spake, And sheepishly shook his head. " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And left my er-shafted queen, for ever chaste. Wherewith she tamed t mi, For she took a bottle to church." ROBERT SOVTUÏY. WHERE ARE YOU GOING, мг PRETTY M AI D t "... | |
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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... 
