 | John Timbs - London (England) - 1865 - 348 pages
...recorded the pleasure he derived from one of Rogers's remarks — " What a lucky fellow you are ! Surely you must have been born with a rose on your lips and a nightingale singing on the top of your bed.'' These and many other sayings, pleasant and severe, will... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1880 - 362 pages
...— ' Eeceived a letter from Eogers, which begins thus : — " What a lucky fellow you are ! Surely you must have been born with a rose on your lips and a nightingale singing on the top of your bed."'—iv. 139. Born 'at the corner of Little Longford Street... | |
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... was displayed in a certain quaint shrewdness and sarcasm with which his conversation abounded, though rarely taking an offensive form. He could pay compliments as pointed as his sarcasm. Moore has recorded the pleasure he derived from one of Rogers's... 