 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 892 страници
...mourn for me without dissembling. My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learned to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps. 'The Dean is dead: (Pray what is trumps?) Then, Lord have mercy on his soul. (Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1910 - 424 страници
...mourn for me without dissembling. j^t My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learn'd to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps : "The Dean is dead: (and what is trumps?) Then, Lord have mercy on his soul! i 3 ^(Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.)1... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1917 - 440 страници
...contains some excellent writing : " My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learn'd to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps : ' The Dean is dead : (Pray what is trumps?) Then, Lord have mercy on his soul ! (Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.) Six Deans, they say, must... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1923 - 528 страници
...the writer in his milder moods : My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learn'd to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps: "The Dean is dead: (Pray what is trumps?) Then, Lord have mercy on his soul ! (Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.) Six Deans, they say, must... | |
 | Geraldine Emma Hodgson - 1923 - 328 страници
...— but we all must die !" ***** My female friends whose tender hearts Have better learn "d to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps: " The Dean is dead: (Pray what are trumps ?) : Then, Lord have mercy on his soul ! (Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.1) Six deans,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1924 - 440 страници
...contains some excellent writing : " My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learn'd to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps : ' The Dean is dead : (Pray what is trumps?) Then, Lord have mercy on his soul ! (Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.) Six Deans, they say, must... | |
 | Shane Leslie - 1928 - 384 страници
...'tis time he should.' " With one ear pricking his shroud he overhears society ladies playing cards: "Receive the news in doleful dumps: 'The Dean is dead (Pray what is Trumps?) . . . Six deans, they say, must bear the pall: (I wish I knew what king to call.) ' " Pope he prophesied... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 страници
...his ov--. "?sh and blood?"' . . . My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learned to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps: "The Dean is dead (and what is trumps?) . . . "Perhaps I may allow the Dean Had too much satire in his vein; And seemed... | |
 | Alan D. Chalmers - 1995 - 188 страници
...vanity and forgetfulness of mortality: My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learned to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps, "The Dean is dead, (and what is trumps?) Then Lord have mercy on his soul. (Ladies, I'll venture for the vole). Six deans... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 страници
...mourn for me without dissembling. My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learn'd to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps, 'The Dean is dead, (and what is trumps ?) Then, Lord have mercy on his soul. (Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.) Six... | |
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I'll venture for the vole.) Six deans, they say, must bear the pall : (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend. 
