 | English literature - 1803 - 208 pages
...purchases his country-box. Some three or four miles out of town (An hour's ride will bring you down) He fixes on his choice abode, Not half a furlong from the road : And so convenient does it lay, The stages pass it ev'ry day : And then so 'nug, so mighty prettv, To have... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 540 pages
...his Country-Box. Some three or four mile out of town, (An hour's ride will bring you down,) He fixe» on his choice abode, Not half a furlong from the road...day : And then fo fnug, fo mighty pretty, To have an houfc fo near the city ! Take but your places at the Boar You're fet down at the very door. Well... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - 1805 - 314 pages
...purchases his Country Box. Some three or four mile out of town, -(An hour's ride will bring you down,) He fixes on his choice abode, Not half a furlong from the road: And so convenient does it lay, The stages, pass it ev'ry day : And then so snug, so mighty pretty, To have... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...purchases his Country Box. Some three or four miles out of town, (An hour's ride will bring you down) He fixes on his choice abode, Not half a furlong from the road; And so convenient does it lay, The stages pass it every day : And then so snug, so mighty pretty, To have... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 264 pages
...purchases his country box. Some three or four mile out of town, (An hour's ride will bring you down,) He fixes on his choice abode, Not half a furlong from the road : And so convenient does it lay, That stages pass it ev'ry day : And then so snug, so mighty pretty, To have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 680 pages
...purchases his country box. Some three or four miles out of town, (An hour's ride will bring you down,) He fixes on his choice abode, Not half a furlong from the road : And so convenient does it lay, The stages pass it ev'ry day: And then so snug, so mighty pretty, To have... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 686 pages
...purchases his country box. Some three or four miles out of town, An hour's rjdc will bring you down,) '-|e fixes on his choice abode, Not half a furlong from the road : And so convenient does it lay, The stages pass it ev'ry day: And then so snug, so mighty pretty, To have... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...purchases his country box. Some three or four miles out of town (An hour's ride will bring you down). He fixes on his choice abode, Not half a furlong from the road : And so convenient does it lay, That stages pass it ev'ry day : And then so snug, so mighty pretty, To have... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...purchases his country box. Some three or four miles out of town (An hour's ride will bring you down) He fixes on his choice abode, Not half a furlong from the road ; And so convenient does it lay. The stages pass it every dny ; And then so srrug, so mighty pretty, To have... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...purchases his Country Box. Some three or four miles out of town (An hour's ride will bring you down) He fixes on his choice abode, Not half a furlong from the road ; And so convenient does it lay, The stages pass it every day : And then so snug, so mighty pretty, To have... | |
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And, by th' approaching summer season, Draws a few hundreds from the stocks, And purchases his country box. Some three or four miles out of town, (An hour's ride will bring you down,) He fixes on his choice abode, Not half a furlong from the road : And... 
