 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1844 - 296 pages
...sinner, He found a stable for his steed, And welcome for himself, and dinner. If, when he reached his journey's end, And warmed himself in court or college,...the traveller was to blame, And not the Vicarage, or the Yicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses : It slipped... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 898 pages
...cannot leave you my direction ! And with what fluency and whimsicality of expression he describes his Vicar ! — His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses ; It slipped from politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses : Beginning with... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...dinner. If, when he reach'd his journey's end. And warm'd himself in court or college, He had not gain'd an honest friend, And twenty curious scraps of knowledge;...the traveller was to blame, And not the vicarage, or the vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses : It slipp'd... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...dinner. If, when he reach'd his journey's end, And warm'd himself in court or college, He had not gain'd an honest friend, And twenty curious scraps of knowledge...the traveller was to blame, And not the vicarage, or the vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses : 440 441... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...sinner, He found a stable for his steed, And welcome for himself and dinner. If, when he reached his journey's end, And warmed himself in court or college,...With no new light on love or liquor, Good sooth the traveler was to blame, And not the Vicarage or the Vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...himself and dinner. If, when he reached his journey's end, And warmed himself in court or college, lie had not gained an honest friend, And twenty curious...sooth the traveller was to blame, And not the Vicarage or the Vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses ; It supped... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...for his steed, And welcome for himself and dinner. If, when he reached his journey's end, And wanned himself in court or college, He had not gained an...With no new light on love or liquor, Good sooth the traveler was to blame, And not the Vicarage or the Vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 580 pages
...sinner, He found a stable for his steed, And welcome for himself and dinner. If, when he reached his journey's end, And warmed himself in court or college, He had not gained an honest friend, And twenty curions scraps of knowledge ; If he departed as he came, With no new light on love or liquor, Good... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1852 - 342 pages
...no new light on love or liquor,— Good sooth, the traveller was to blame, And not the Vicarage, or the Vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses: It slipped from politics to puns: It passed from Mahomet to Moses: Beginning with the... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...sinner, He found a stable for his steed, And welcome for himself and dinner. If, when he reached his journey's end, And warmed himself in court or college,...With no new light on love or liquor, Good sooth the traveler was to blame, And not the Vicarage or the Vicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With... | |
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winsome marrow;" The lady laid her knitting down, Her husband clasped his ponderous Barrow : Whate'er the stranger's caste or creed, Pundit or Papist, saint or sinner, He found a stable for his steed, And welcome for himself, and dinner. If, when he reached... 
