 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1873 - 586 pages
...happy. The lines which record the demise of one of its shining lights are irresistibly comic. Thus : " Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass — at least to all intent ; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving... | |
 | 1873 - 618 pages
...happy. The lines which record the demise of one of its shining lights are irresistibly comic. Thus : " Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass — at least to all intent ; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving... | |
 | Education - 1870 - 522 pages
...Brown he smiled a bitter smile, and said his greatest fault Was that he had been trespassing on Jones' family vault ; He was a most sarcastic man, this quiet...Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To sav another is an ass — at least to all intent ; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant,... | |
 | Francis Bret Harte - 1871 - 186 pages
...for a suspension of the rules, Till he could prove that those same bones was one of his lost mules. Then Brown he smiled a bitter smile, and said he was...Brown, And on several occasions he had cleaned out the Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass, — at least, to all intent... | |
 | Bret Harte - American poetry - 1872 - 410 pages
...he could prove that those same bones was one of his lost mules. 92 THE SOCIETY UPON THE STANISLAUS. Then Brown he smiled a bitter smile, and said he was...decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass, — at least, to all intent : Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving... | |
 | Francis Bret Harte - 1880 - 288 pages
...for a suspension of the rules, Till he could prove that those same bones was one of his lost mules. Then Brown he smiled a bitter smile, and said he was...on several occasions he had cleaned out the town. • The Society upon tlie Stanislaus. 67 Now, I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say... | |
 | Bret Harte - United States - 1873 - 164 pages
...bones, an animal that was extremely rare ; And Jones then asked the Chair for a suspension of the rules, Then Brown he smiled a bitter smile, and said he was...decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass, — at least, to all intent; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - Wit and humor - 1899 - 534 pages
...that those same bones -were one of his lost mules. Then Brown he smiled a bitter smile, and said ha was at fault. It seemed he had been trespassing on...decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass — at least to all intent ; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1875 - 162 pages
...bones, an animal that was extremely rare ; And Jones then asked the Chair for a suspension of the rules, Then Brown he smiled a bitter smile, and said he was...decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass, — at least, to all intent : Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1875 - 164 pages
...bones, an animal that was extremely rare ; And Jones then asked the Chair for a suspension of the rules, Then Brown he smiled a bitter smile, and said he was...decent for a scientific gent To say another is an" ass, — at least, to all intent; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving... | |
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Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass— at least, to all intent; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him, to any great extent. 
