 | Isaac Kimber, Edward Kimber - Literary Collections - 1785
...what I mail relate, will not be reckoned decifive a£ainft a he could rhyme as well, and as elegantly, in common narrative and converfation. For inftance, fays he, As with my hat upon my head I walk'd alonj the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand. Or, to render fuch poetry... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Sir John Hawkins - 1787
...and, to illuftrate his argument, and ridicule that kind of poetry, uttered the following impromptu : ' As with my hat upon my head, ' I walk'd along the...did meet another man, ' With his hat in his hand.' And it being at a tea-converfation, he, addreffing himfelf to Mifs Reynolds, went on rhyming thus,... | |
 | Sir John Hawkins - Biography & Autobiography - 1787 - 602 pages
...and ridicule that kind of poetry, uttered the following impromptu : ' As with my hat upon my head, f I walk'd along the Strand, < I there did meet another man, * With his hat in his hand.' And it being at a tea-converfation, he, addrefling himfelf to Mifs Reynolds, went on rhyming thus,... | |
 | Sir John Hawkins - 1787 - 605 pages
...ridicule that kind of poetry, uttered the following impromptu : * As with my hat upon my head, ' 1 walk'd along the Strand, ' I there did meet another man, ' With his hat in his hand.' And it being at a tea-converfation, he, addrcffing himlelf to Mifs Reynolds, went on rhyming thus ;... | |
| Sir John Hawkins - 1787 - 605 pages
...illuftrate his argument, and ridicule that kind of poetry, Uttered the following impromptu : • * As with my hat upon my head, * I walk'd along the Strand, '• f I there did meet another man, * With his hat in his hand.' And it: being at a tea-coriverfation,... | |
| Joseph Addison - Anecdotes - 1795
...to obferve one evening, at Mifs Renolds's tea-table, that he could rhyme as well, and as elegantly, in common narrative and converfation. For inftance,...he, As with my hat upon my head I walk'd along the ftrand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand. Or, to render fuch poetry fubfervient... | |
 | Mr. Addison - 1795 - 288 pages
...Renolds's tea-table, that he could rhyme as well, and as elegantly, in common narrative and conversion. For inftance, fays he, As with my hat upon my head I walk'd along the ftrand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand. Or, to render fuch poetry fubfervient... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806
...moquer de ce genre de poésie , il composa sur le champ les quatre vers suivans : ' As with my liat upon my head I walk'd along the strand ; I there did meet another man "With his hat in his hand. * • L'austérité de ses mœurs piqua la fierté d'une célèbre courtisanne de Londres. Kitty Fisher,... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806
...ce genre de poésie , il composa sur le champ les quatre vers suivans : As with my hat upon my hcad I walk'd along the strand ; I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand. * L'austérité de ses mœurs piqua la fierté d'une célèbre courtisanne de Londres. Kitty Fisher,... | |
| William Bayley (of Yorkshire.) - 1824
...tea-table, that ht rhyme as well and as elegantly in common n and conversation. For instance, says he : 335 As with my hat upon my head, I walk'd along the Strand, I there did meet another man, With bis oat in his band. Or, to render such poetry subservient to my own immediate use, I therefore pray... | |
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As with my hat upon my head I walk'd along the Strand, I there did meet another man With his hat in his hand. 
