| English poets - 1862 - 626 страници
...'tis hardly understood, Which way my death can do them good, Yet thus, methinks. I hear them speak : " See, how the dean begins to break ! Poor gentleman...old vertigo in his head Will never leave him, till he's dead. Besides, his memory decays : He recollects not what he says ; He cannot call his friends... | |
| John Timbs - 1862 - 424 страници
...November, 1731, he wrote the memorable verses f prophetic of his own death, in which occur these lines : " See how the Dean begins to break, Poor gentleman,...old vertigo in his head Will never leave him till he's dead ; Besides his memory decays, He recollects not what he says." Among the Dean's singularities... | |
| Henry Allon - 1854 - 622 страници
...how his memory began to fail, and other signs of breaking up began to appear, we learn from himself. See, how the Dean begins to break ! Poor gentleman,...old vertigo in his head Will never leave him till he's dead. Besides, his memory decays : He recollects not what he says; He cannot call his friends... | |
| Robert Inglis - 1870 - 592 страници
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| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 страници
...'tis hardly understood Which way my death can do them good, Yet thus, methinks, I hear them speak : " See how the Dean begins to break ! Poor gentleman,...old vertigo in his head Will never leave him till he's dead. Besides, his memory decays : He recollects not what he says ; He cannot call his friends... | |
| John Timbs - 1872 - 434 страници
...lines: " See how the Dean begins to break, Poor gentleman, he droops apace. You plainly find it in bis face; That old vertigo in his head Will never leave him till he's dead ; Besides his memory decays, He recollects not what he says." Among the Dean's singularities... | |
| David Masson - 1874 - 404 страници
...memory began to fail, andp other signs of breaking-up began to appear, we learn from himself; — " See how the Dean begins to break ! Poor gentleman...old vertigo in his head Will never leave him till he's dead. Besides, his memory decays ; He recollects not what he says ; He cannot call his friends... | |
| John Walton Murray - 1874 - 208 страници
...them speak — See how the Dean begins to break ! Poor gentleman ! he drops apace, You plainly see it in his face; That old vertigo in his head Will never leave him till he's dead ! Besides, his memory decays — He recollects not what he says ; He cannot call his friends... | |
| Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 страници
...'tis hardly understood, Which way my death can do them good, Yet thus, methinks, I hear them speak: »See, how the dean begins to break! Poor gentleman,...old vertigo in his head Will never leave him till he's dead. Besides, his memory decays: He recollects not what he says; He cannot call his friends to... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 страници
...'tis hardly understood Which way my death can do them good, Yet thus, methinks, I hear them speak : " See how the Dean begins to break ! Poor gentleman,...old vertigo in his head Will never leave him till he's dead. Besides, his memory decays : He recollects not what he says ; He cannot call. his friends... | |
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