 Your pinners set right, your twitcher tied on, Your prayers at an end, and your breakfast quite done, Retire to some author improving and gay, And with sense like your own, set your mind for the day. At twelve you may walk, for at this time...  Songs of Society, from Anne to Victoria - Page 36edited by - 1880 - 234 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1755 - 356 pages
...your breakfaft quite done; Retire to fome author, improving and gay, And with fenfe like your own, fet your mind for the day. At twelve you may walk, for at this time o' the year. The fun, like your wit, is as mild as 'tis clear ; But mark in the meadows the ruin of time ; Take the... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1758 - 384 pages
...breakfaft quite done ; Retire to fome author, improving and gay, And with fenfe like your own, fet your mind for the day. At twelve you may walk, for at this time o' the year, The fun, like your wit, is as mild as 'tis clear : But mark in the meadows the ruin of Ti me ; Take the... | |
 | 1758 - 352 pages
...breakfaft quite done j Retire to fome author, improving and gay, And with fenfe like your own, fet your mind for the day. At twelve you may walk, for at this time o" the year, The fun, like your wit, is as mild, as 'tis clear : But mark in the meadows the ruin of Time ; Take the... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1765 - 392 pages
...breakfaft quite done ; Retire to fome author, improving and gay, And with fenfe like your own, fet your mind for the day. At twelve you may walk, for at this time o' the year, The fun, like your wit, is as mild, as 'tis clear : But mark in the meadows the ruin of Time ; Take the... | |
 | Collection - 1766 - 356 pages
...breakfaft quite done ; Retire to fome author, improving and gay, And with fenfe like your own, fet your mind for the day. At twelve you may walk, for at this time o' the year, The fun like your wit, is as mild, as 'tis clear : But mark in the meadows the ruin of Time ; Take the... | |
 | Brutus (pseud.) - 1774 - 342 pages
...breakfail quite done, Retire to fome author, improving and gay, And, with fenfe like your own, fet your mind .for the day. At twelve you may walk ; for at this time o' the year, The fan, like your wit, is as mild as 'tis clear. But But mark1 in'the meadows the ruin of time ; Take... | |
 | 1782 - 402 pages
...breakfaft quite done ; Retire to fome author, improving and gay, And with fenfe like your own, fet your mind for the day. At twelve you may walk, for at this time o' the year, The fun, like your wit, is as mild as 'tis clear : » Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chefterfield, was... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 426 pages
...stretch your arms, and oh! think when alone, There's no pleasure in bed.—MARY, bring me my gown : Slip on that ere you rise ; let your caution be such...already too much; Your pinners set right, your twitcher ty'd on, Your prayers at an end, and your breakfast quite done; Retire to some author, improving and... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 376 pages
...pleasure in bed. — MARY, bring me my gown : Slip en that ere you rise ; let your caution be suchj_ Keep all cold from your breast, there's already too much ; Your pinners set right, your twitcher ty'd on, Your prayers at an end, and your breakfast quite done; Retire to some author, improving and... | |
 | English wit and humor - 1794 - 428 pages
...your breakfaft quite done, Retire to fome author improving and gay, And with fenfe like your own, fet your mind for the day. At twelve you may walk, for at this time o' the year, The fun, like your wit, is as mild, as 'tis clear : But mark in the meadows the ruin of time ; Take the... | |
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