 Of a tall stature, and of sable hue, Much like the son of Kish, that lofty Jew, Twelve years complete he suffered in exile, And kept his father's asses all the while...  Satires of Andrew Marvell - Page 49by Andrew Marvell - 1892 - 244 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Augustine Birrell - Fiction - 1905 - 258 pages
...providing for his comfort. A few years afterwards Marvell wrote the following lines : — " Of a tall stature and of sable hue, Much like the son of Kish,...At length, by wonderful impulse of fate, The people called him home to help the state, And what is more they sent him money too To clothe him all from... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - Fiction - 1905 - 368 pages
...providing for his comfort. A few years afterwards Marvell wrote the following lines: — " Of a tall stature and of sable hue, Much like the son of Kish,...At length, by wonderful impulse of fate, The people called him home to help the state, And what is more they sent him money too To clothe him all from... | |
 | Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) - Grande-Bretagne - 1905 - 398 pages
...a tall stature, and of sable hue, Much like the son of Kish, that lofty Jew ; Twelve years compleat he suffered in exile, And kept his father's asses...At length, by wonderful impulse of fate, The people called him home to help the state. And what is more, they send him money too, And clothe him all, from... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1911 - 568 pages
...Marvell expresses his own feelings in humorous fashion also, as he describes the king as : Of a tall stature and of sable hue, Much like the son of Kish,...exile, And kept his father's asses all the while. While these Satires came from Marvell's pen long after the poems of the Nun Appleton period, they were,... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1911 - 578 pages
...humorous fashion also, as he describes the king as : Of a tall stature and of sable hne, Much like the eon of Kish, that lofty Jew, Twelve years complete he...exile, And kept his father's asses all the while. While these Satires came from Marvell's pen long after the poems of the Nun Appleton period, they were,... | |
 | James King Hewison - Covenanters - 1913 - 650 pages
...— ' Of a tall stature and a sable hue, Much like the son of Kish the lofty Jew, Ten years of need he suffered in exile, And kept his father's asses all the while.' These months of penance made an ineffaceable impression on the young King's mind and confirmed him... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 pages
...them ; none of the jokes in prose are as good as the opening of An Historical Poem :— " Of a tall stature, and of sable hue, Much like the son of Kish,...exile, And kept his father's asses all the while." The Proclamation of " Bayes R."—a Declaration for the tolerating of Debauchery—is the liveliest... | |
 | Sir Henry Machu Imbert-Terry (bart.) - Great Britain - 1917 - 420 pages
...hear been cut off." 1 Many references are made by contemporary writers to Charles's height. " Of tall stature and of sable hue, Much like the son of Kish, that Jolty Jew," is Andrew Marvell's description of his King, while the picture is even more sharply delineated... | |
 | Hugh Walker - Satire, English - 1925 - 348 pages
...has taught Charles nothing — except to see to it that he does not go on his travels again: — " Twelve years complete he suffered in exile, And kept his father's asses all the while." Dryden himself has no keener stroke. On the other hand, Marvell was capable of sinking into the abyss.... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - Epigrams - 1926 - 264 pages
...II. Of a tall stature and a sable hue, Much like the son of Kish, that lofty Jew : Ten years of need he suffered in exile, And kept his father's asses all the while. Andrew Marvell. ON BLOOD'S STEALING THE CROWN. When daring Blood, his rent to have regained, Upon the... | |
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