 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 страници
...laugh'd to hear an idiot quote A verse from Horace learn'd by rote. " He knew a hundred pleasing stories, With all the turns of Whigs and Tories: Was cheerful to his dying day; And friends would let him have his way. " He gave the little wealth he had To build a house... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 528 страници
...to hear an idiot quote A verse from Horace learned by rote. 475 "He knew a hundred pleasing stories, With all the turns of Whigs and Tories : Was cheerful to his dying day; And friends would let him have his way. "He gave the little wealth he had To build a house... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 страници
...to hear an idiot quote A verse from Horace learned by rote. 475 "He knew a hundred pleasing stories, With all the turns of Whigs and Tories : Was cheerful to his dying day; And friends would let him have his way. "He gave the little wealth he had To build a house... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 892 страници
...laughed to hear an idiot quote A verse from Horace learn'd by rote. 'He knew a hundred pleasing stories, With all the turns of Whigs and Tories: Was cheerful to his dying day, And friends would let him have his way. 'He gave the little wealth he had To build a house... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1910 - 424 страници
...expect to 'scape rebuke, Because its ciwner is a.duke?* " He knew an hundred pleasant stories, fie With all the turns of Whigs and Tories: Was cheerful to his dying day; And friends would let him have his way. " He gave the little wealth he had To build a house... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 422 страници
...laughed to hear an idiot quote A verse from Horace learned by rote. 'He knew a hundred pleasing stories, With all the turns of Whigs and Tories: Was cheerful to his dying day; And friends would let him have his way. 'He gave the little wealth he had To build a house... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 страници
...Should vice expect to 'scape rebuke, Because its owner is a duke? "He knew an hundred pleasant stories, With all the turns of Whigs and Tories: Was cheerful to his dying day; And friends would let him have his way. "He gave the little wealth he had To build a house... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 страници
...hear an idiot quote ' A verse from Horace learn'd by rote. ' He knew a hundred pleasing stories, ' With all the turns of Whigs and Tories: ' Was cheerful to his dying day ; ' And friends would let him have his way. ' He gave the little wealth he had ' To build... | |
 | Douglas Lane Patey, Timothy Keegan - 1985 - 280 страници
...the poet offers a view of the private side of his character: "He knew an hundred pleasant stories, "With all the turns of Whigs and Tories: "Was cheerful to his dying day, "And friends would let him have his way." (475-78) These may seem curious details for Swift... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 страници
...own joking epitaph says much about his perception of himself: He knew an hundred pleasant stories, With all the turns of Whigs and Tories; Was cheerful to his dying day, And friends would let him have his way. He gave the little wealth he had To build a house... | |
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He knew a hundred pleasant stories, With all the turns of Whigs and Tories: Was cheerful to his dying day, And friends would let him have his way. 'He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch,... 
