 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
 | William Cowper - 1879 - 688 pages
...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,...Safe policy, but hateful ; So barren sands imbibe the shower, But render neither fruit nor flower, Unpleasant and ungrateful. They whisper trivial things,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...or Jack* And proves, by thumping on your back, His sense of your great merit, Is sui'ha friend, that 2 0* FruadsMf. COWPER. Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I call meet, — perhaps may... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...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. DR. ERASMUS DARWIN, grandfather of " Darwin," was the author of much poetry, all of which was very... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 844 pages
...Jack. And proves, by thump upon your back, How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend that one has need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it. Curious Statistics of Marriage. — It is found that young men from fifteen to twenty years of age... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...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, Friendshfp, 20. FAMILY. A lady with her daughters or her nieces, Shine like a guinea and seven... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...Jack, And proves by thumps upon 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. TO MARY— Mrs. Unwin. The twentieth year is well-nigh past Since first our sky was overcast ; Ah,... | |
 | 1882 - 514 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. As similarity of mind Or something not to be defined, First fixes our attention, So manners decent... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back His sense of your great merit. Is such a friend, that p @ ! COWPEK— (J n Friendship. ••Wal'r. my boy," ropiie.t the captain, "in the Proverbs of Solomon... | |
 | Alfred M. Bolton - 1883 - 180 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. Hal was very quiet during the dances, excepting occasionally a bland smile betrayed that one of the... | |
 | Maria Henrietta De la Cherois-Crommelin - 1883 - 332 pages
...Tom and 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. " WE'LL have high jinks at tea," said the two Misses Smeeth, eralding the party into their house. It... | |
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