 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 страници
...royal paper is his breast ; Of all the kinds most precious, purest, best BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. OLD GRIMES. OLD GRIMES is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more ; He used to wear a long black coat, All buttoned down before. His heart was open as the day, His feelings... | |
 | Marie Elise Turner T. Lauder - 1876 - 398 страници
...church -yard, on a moss-grown stone, Elise found the following characteristic epitaph : — "John Lee is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more ; He used to wear an old drab coat, All buttoned down before," " Oh Elise ! it is pouring rain !" cried... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 страници
...paper is his breast ; Of all the kinds most precious, purest, best. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. • OLD GRIMES. OLD GRIMES is dead, that good old man, • We ne'er shall see him more ; He used to wear a long black coat, All buttoned down before. His heart was open as the day, His feelings... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1878 - 896 страници
...following him to the stake. Martyrdom of Mr. Jo/in Rogers. Burnt at Smith fid J, Feb. 14, 1554. John Lee is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more ; He used to wear an old drab coat, All buttoned down before. An inscription in Matherne churchyard,... | |
 | Valentine Durrant - 1879 - 506 страници
...gave a gentle assent to his project, and Merry went off singing a verse of one of his classics : " Old Grimes is dead, — that good old man, — We ne'er shall see him more : He used to wear a long black coat, All buttoned down before." His pretty wife remained a long while... | |
 | George Melville Baker - 1879 - 734 страници
...which I have neither inclination nor capacity. • BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE •OLD GRIMES. OLD -(IftIMES is dead ; that good old man ; We ne'er shall see him more : He used to wear a long, black coat, Att buttoned down before. His heart was open as the day, / His... | |
 | John M. Stowe - 1881 - 450 страници
...provided for him while he lived. The song about Old Grimes of which the first four lines are : — • " Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more ; He used to wear an old blue coat All buttoned down before," " Old Grimes yet lived, that deaf old... | |
 | Frederick T. Wallace - 1882 - 380 страници
...alike. probably the first humorous lyric in this country that had. become universal, if not national — Old Grimes is dead, that good old man. We ne'er shall see him more ; He used to wear a long blue coat. All buttoned down before. What "Auld Lang Syne" is to the Scot... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 страници
...irrepressible conflkt between opposing and enduring forces. Speech, Oct. 25, 1858. ALBERT G. GREENE. 1802-1868. Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more ; He used to wear a long black coat, All buttoned down before.'2 Old Grimes. 1 Mrs. Child says " he... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1883 - 602 страници
...was a gentleman Of credit and renown, A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town." Or— " Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more, He used to wear an over-coat All buttoned down before " — or lines to that effect — we wish we... | |
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OLD Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more ; He used to wear a long black coat, All buttoned down before. 
