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
| 1810 - 500 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." THE MOWTTILY MIRROIt. 195 serration of mankind, direct him in the choice of the best means of effecting... | |
| 1801 - 454 pages
...and polite, The same *-e practis'd at first sight, Must save it from declension. > Some act upon thii prudent plan, " Say little, and hear all you can," Safe policy, but hateful— So barren sandt imbibe the slwv'r, But render neither fruit nor flow'r, Unpleasant and ungrateful. Pursue the... | |
| James Plumptre - Songs, English - 1811 - 486 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. 10 Sonic act upon this prudent plan, " Say little and hear all you can." Safe policy but hateful —... | |
| Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back. How he efteems your merit, Is fuch a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. As fimilarity of mi•nd, Or fomething not to be defin'd, Firft fixes our attention ; So manners decent... | |
| William Cowper - 1817 - 240 pages
...Tom or Jack, And proves hy thumps upon your hack How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to hear it. As similarity of mind, Or something not to he defined, First fixes our attention ; So mauners... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1818 - 244 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... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1818 - 244 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... | |
| William Cowper - 1820 - 508 pages
...polite, The same we practised at first sight, 'Must save it from declension. Some act upon this prndent plan, * Say little, and hear all you can.' Safe policy, but hateful — ,So barren sands imbibe the shower, But render neither frnit nor flower, Unpleasant and ungrateful. The man T trust, if shy to... | |
| Heron - 1821 - 944 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." " Oh! I see, by your unwonted jocularity, my dear Howard, that — ' your bosom's lord sits lightly... | |
| William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 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... | |
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