 The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, .  Poems - Page 111by William Cowper - 1826Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...Tom or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it. COWPER : On Friendship. Well-chosen friendship, the most noble Of virtues, all our joys makes double,... | |
 | Literature - 1876 - 966 pages
...Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. Friendship is a touchstone of merit. A man must have many good qualities, as well as a freedom from... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Bible - 1877 - 400 pages
...generous warmth of a Christian gentleman, deals with such practical philosophers : " Some act upon the prudent plan, ' Say little, and hear all you can.'...policy, but hateful — So barren sands imbibe the shower, But render neither fruit nor flower, Unpleasant and ungrateful. The man I trust, if shy to... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back His seuse of your great merit, Is such a i'un:Mi. that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it. — COWPER, Friendship. Friends— Alas ! they had been FRIENDS in youth ; But whispering tongues can... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1877 - 424 pages
...you Tom or Jack And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it. As similarity of mind, Or something not to be defined, First fixes our attention ; So, manners decent... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...Tom or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend that j s N ! c ^M ! d A gC {˵ M( A $;H<? X a 5 — Cou'per. 1399. FRIENDSHIP. Boon of HAIL, friendship ! since the world began, Heaven's kindest,... | |
 | Young people - 1877 - 696 pages
...your back How he esteems your merit, " The man that hails you Tom or Jack, Is such a friend thatjone had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it." Some of these candid friends see a fault on the character like a fly on the nose, and not content to dust... | |
 | 1878 - 662 pages
...Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteem» your merit, le such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. As similarity of mind Or something not to be defined, First fixes our attention, So таппегя... | |
 | Oregon - Oregon - 1878 - 984 pages
...Tom or Jack, And prove? hy thumps upon your back How he esteems your m «rit, le such a friend, thnt one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. * As Hmilarity of mind Or something not to be defined. First fixes our attention, So manner* decent... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...Tom or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it. COWPER : On Friendship. Well-chosen friendship, the most noble ,Of virtues, all our joys makes double,... | |
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