 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
 | Humanities - 1901 - 474 pages
...man of the world. Such an one will not be offended by the note of insincerity in the love-poems; ' Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to forty year.' But he will feel the charm of the perfect diction and exquisite metrification of the Odes, and he will... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1884 - 420 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...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 - 1902 - 460 pages
...singing of midnight strains, Under Bonnybell's window panes, — Wait till you come to Forty Year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair...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 - 1902 - 878 pages
...singing of midnight strains, Under Bonnybell's window panes, — Wait till you come to Forty Year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair...you have come to Forty Year. Pledge me round, I bid yc declare, All good fellows whose boards are grey. Did not the fairest of the fair Common grow and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1902 - 172 pages
...and singing of midnight strains Under Bonnybell's window panes — Wait till you come to Forty Year! Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear — Then you know the boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year. Pledge me round!... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1899 - 494 pages
...singing of midnight strains, Under Bonnytiell's window panes, — • Wait till you come to Forty Year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair...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 t... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Executions and executioners - 1903 - 496 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...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 - English wit and humor - 1903 - 506 pages
....singing of midnight strains Under honnybells' window-panes. Wait till you've come to forty year ! Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair...know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a hiss, Once you have come to forty yo^r. Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - 116 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...worth of a lass, Once you have come to forty year. [44] VAN HOE in the Hall of His Fathers " Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose... | |
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