 On fire that glows With heat intense I turn the hose Of common sense, And out it goes At small expense. We must maintain Our fairy law; That is the main On which to draw; In that we gain A Captain Shaw, Oh, Captain Shaw!  To College Girls and Other Essays - Page 65by Le Baron Russell Briggs - 1911 - 115 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arthur Sullivan - Operas - 1882 - 58 pages
...Naso ! This heart of mine Is soft as thine, Although I dare not say so. CHO. Oh, amorous dove, etc. On fire that glows With heat intense I turn the hose...Of common sense, And out it goes At small expense. We must maintain Our fairy law ; That is the main 32 In that we gain A Captain Shaw.* {Aside.} Oh,... | |
 | Arthur Sullivan, William Schwenck Gilbert - Operas - 1882 - 48 pages
...Naso ! This heart of mine Is soft as thine, Although I dare not say so. CHo. Oh, amorous dove, etc. On fire that glows With heat intense I turn the hose...Of common sense, And out it goes At small expense. We must maintain Our fairy law; That is the main A Captain Shaw.* (Aside.) Oh, Captain Shaw ! In that... | |
 | William Schwenck Gilbert - 1891 - 152 pages
...amorous dove ! Type of Ovidiui Naso 1 This heart of mine Is soft as thine, Although I dare not lay so ! On fire that glows With heat intense I turn the hose...Of Common Sense, And out it goes At small expense ! We must maintain Our fairy law ; That is the main On which to draw — In that we gain A Captain... | |
 | Popular culture - 1903 - 616 pages
...consented." Again he commingles the literal and the figurative, as where the fairy queen in lolanthe sings : On fire that glows With heat intense I turn the hose...Of common sense, And out it goes At small expense. Gilbert satirises the foibles and follies of society in a most pungent manner. Who can forget his treatment... | |
 | William Schwenck Gilbert - Ballads, English - 1904 - 590 pages
...amorous dove ! Type of Ovidius Naso ! This heart of mine Is soft as thine, Although 1 dare not say so ! On fire that glows With heat intense I turn the hose...Of Common Sense, And out it goes At small expense ! We must maintain Our fairy law ; That is the main On which to draw — In that we gain A Captain... | |
 | Le Baron Russell Briggs - Education and women - 1911 - 182 pages
...right and your glory by reason of your youth. Cherish it, and if it leads you to a foolish blunder now and then, save yourself by humor : — "On fire that...part of your high efficiency. People try sometimes to strip science and literature and history of romance; but their science repels, their literature... | |
 | Le Baron Russell Briggs - Women - 1911 - 184 pages
...Cherish it, and if it leads you to a foolish blunder now and then, save yourself by humor : — "On flre that glows With heat intense I turn the hose Of common...part of your high efficiency. People try sometimes to strip science and literature and history of romance ; but their science repels, their literature... | |
 | François Cellier, Cunningham Bridgeman - Operas - 1914 - 570 pages
...him the Fairy Queen, with arms outstretched across the footlights, appealed in tuneful serenade : " On fire that glows With heat intense I turn the hose...Of common sense. And out it goes At small expense. We must maintain Our fairy law ; That is the main On which to draw — In that we gain A Captain Shaw... | |
 | Arthur James Todd - 1919 - 232 pages
...job of applying WS Gilbert's famous remedy for foolishness: "On fire that glows With heat intense We turn the hose Of common sense, And out it goes At small expense." The rule is admirable if the streams supplying the reservoir can be kept fresh and flowing. It is perhaps... | |
 | William Schwenck Gilbert - English drama - 1920 - 316 pages
...Naso! This heart of mine Is soft as thine, Although I dare not say so ! Chorta. Oh, amorous dove, etc. On fire that glows With heat intense I turn the hose...Of common sense, And out it goes At small expense ! We must maintain Our fairy law ; That is the main On which to drawIn that we gain A Captain Shaw... | |
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