 Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear — • Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year.  Fraser's Magazine - Page 2441846Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...you come to Forty Year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pas?, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear; Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year. WILLIAM M. THACKERAY : Age of Wisdan. To train the foliage o'er the snowy lawn ; To guide the pencil,... | |
 | George Frank Lydston - Physicians - 1896 - 634 pages
...singing of midnight strains Under Bonnybell 's window panes. Wait till you've come to forty year ! ' Forty times over let Michaelmas pass — Grizzling hair the brain doth clear. Then you'll know the worth of a lass ; Then you'll know that a boy is an ass, Once you have come to forty... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 598 pages
...and singing of midnight strains Under Bonnybells* window-panes. Wait till you've come to forty year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair...to forty year. Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, f All good fellows whose beards are grey : Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow, and wearisome,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Christmas stories, English - 1898 - 590 pages
...and singing of midnight strain* Under BonnybelU" window-panes. Wait till you're come to forty year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear ; Then you know a boy is an asr, Then you know the worth of a liss. Once you have come to forty year. Pledge mo round, I bid ye... | |
 | Horace - 1898 - 538 pages
...avoided is condere lustrum. Cf. rändere diem, 4. 5. 29. For thought, cf. Thackeray's Age of Reason : ' Then you know the worth of a lass | Once you have come to forty year.' Landor lowers the danger line by eight years : ' I know those ankles small and round | Are standing... | |
 | Horace - Latin language - 1898 - 538 pages
...avoided is condere lustrum. Cf. condere diem, 4. 5. 29. For thought, cf. Thackeray's Age of Reason : ' Then you know the worth of a lass | Once you have come to forty year.' Landor lowers the danger line by eight years : ' I know those ankles small and round | Are standing... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1899 - 888 pages
...Bonnybell's window panes, — Wait till you come to Forty Year. Forty times over let Michaelmas puss, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear — Then you know...bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are grey, Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome ere Ever a month was passed away ?... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 384 pages
...singing of midnight strains Under Bonnybells' window-panes. Wait till you've come to forty year. " Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair...to forty year. " Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, <:The reddest lips that ever have kissed, The brightest eyes that ever have shone, May pray and whisper... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - 598 pages
...Bonnybells' window-panes. Wait till you've come to forty year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pxss, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear ; Then you know...of a lass, Once you have come to forty year. Pledge mo round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are grey : Did not the fairest of the fair... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...singing of midnight strains, Under Bonnybell's window-panes, — Wait till you come to Forty Year ! he box of mignonette. Good-night, sweet mother : call...you're waking, call me, call me early, mother dear. le grey, Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and wearisome ere Ever a month was pass VI away?... | |
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