| Roses - 1867 - 172 páginas
...the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The schoolboy whips his taxed top —...his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent. — and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of a hundred pounds for the privilege... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 páginas
...the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The schoolboy whips his taxed top ; the...his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - 1869 - 926 páginas
...on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribbons of the bride ; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The school-boy whips his taxed top ;...that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back on his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary who... | |
| Francis Fisher Broune - 1869 - 486 páginas
...on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribbons of the bride ; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The school-boy whips his taxed top ;...that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back on his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary who... | |
| Edward Potts Cheyney - 1927 - 200 páginas
...nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride. At bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The dying Englishman pouring his medicine, which has...spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who... | |
| George Alexander Johnston - 1928 - 316 páginas
...the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride—at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay : The schoolboy whips his taxed top ;...dying Englishman pouring his medicine, which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which... | |
| William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1882 - 584 páginas
...the budgets of 1860 and the following years, we can sympathise with the complaint of Sydney Smith. " The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless...medicine which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon which has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself upon his chintz bed, which, has paid twenty-two per... | |
| William Cunningham - 1968 - 1098 páginas
...the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay : — The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed the pres- horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying taxation, Englishman pouring... | |
| 1924 - 970 páginas
...the brass nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The schoolboy whips his taxed top —...dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed. which... | |
| Alvin Rabushka - 1985 - 260 páginas
...on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride: at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the...dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which... | |
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