 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1868 - 276 pages
...With beer and milk arrears the frieze was scor'd, And five crack'd teacups dress'd the chimney-board ; A nightcap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night — a stocking all the day ! ON SEEING MRS. * * PERFORM IN THE CHARACTER OF * * * V To you, bright fair, the nine address their... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 404 pages
...beer and milk arrears, the frieze was scor'd, And flve cracked tea-cups drcss'd the chimney board ; Л night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night— a stocking all the day! THE GIFT. TO IRIS, IN BOW-STREET, CO VEXT-G ARDES.— I3IITATATED PItOM THE FRENCH. SAT, cruel Iris,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1870 - 456 pages
...With beer and milk arrears the frieze was scored, And five crack'd tea-cups dress'd the chimney-board. A nightcap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night — a stocking all the day ! * From the " Citizen of the World." 1762. 308 Miscellaneous Poems. ON SEEING MRS PERFORM Iff THB... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 280 pages
...With beer and milk arrears the frieze was scor'd, And five crack'd teacups dress'd the chimney-board ; A nightcap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night — a stocking all the day ! ON SEEING MRS. * * PERFORM IN THE CHARACTER OF ****.' To you, bright fair, the nine address their... | |
 | William G. Andrews - Capital - 1872 - 36 pages
...arrears the frieze was scored, And five cracked teacups graced the chimney-board ; A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay, A cap by night — a stocking all the day. " And Goldsmith has preserved the story of the Italian artist who paid for his dinner by painting the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1877 - 526 pages
...arrears the frieze was scored, And five cracked tea-cups dressed the chimney board : A night-cap decked his brows instead of bay, A cap by night — a stocking all the day ! THE GIFT. TO IRIS, IN BOW STREET, COVENT GARDEN — IMITATED FROM THE FRENCH.* }|AY, cruel Iris,... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1877 - 528 pages
...sense, and truth, and nature, in the trifling compass of ten syllables, the last of two added lines ; A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night, a tlocking all ihe day I and having quoted them, was so much elated and self-delighted, that he was quite... | |
 | William Henry Burroughs - Local taxation - 1877 - 970 pages
...denomination, which is illustrated ty the couplet as to the needy author: " A stocking decked his brow instead of bay, A cap by night, a stocking all the day." If the position was correct, a stocking used as a night-cap is not a stocking.1 The rules of construction,... | |
 | William Michael Rossetti - American wit and humor - 1878 - 510 pages
...arrears the frieze was scored, And five cracked tea-cups dressed the chimney-board ; A night-cap decked his brows instead of bay, A cap by night— a stocking all the day. P JOHN CUNNINGHAM. [Born in Dublin in 1729 ; died in 1773. Was an actor by profession ; composed a... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 404 pages
...With beer and milk arrears the frieze was scored, And five cracked tea-cups dress'd the chimneyboard; A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night a stocking all the day! HOPE. The wretch condemned with life to part, Still ! still ! on hope relies; And every pang, that... | |
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William show'd his lamp-black face. The morn was cold ; he views with keen desire The rusty grate unconscious of a fire : With beer and milk arrears the frieze was scored, And five crack'd tea-cups dress'd the chimney board, A nightcap deck'd his brows... 
