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" Her love was sought, I do aver, By twenty beaux and more ; The king himself has follow'd her — When she has walk'd before. But now, her wealth and finery fled, Her hangers-on cut short all ; The doctors found, when she was dead — Her last disorder... "
A Treasury of Humorous Poetry: Being a Compilation of Witty, Facetious, and ... - Page 288
edited by - 1902 - 407 pages
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A Compendium of English Literature, Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...monstrous size j She never slumber 'd in her pew, — But when she shut her eyes. HIT lovu wns fouglit, I do aver, By twenty beaux and more ; The king himself has foliow'd her, — When she lias walk'd before. But now lier wealth anil finery fleil, Her hangers-on...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 pages
...satins new, With hoop of monstrous size ; She never slumber'd in her pew—- But when she shut her eyes. Her love was sought, I do aver, By twenty beaux and...disorder mortal. Let us lament, in sorrow sore, For Kent-street well may say, That had she liv'da twelvemonth moreShe had not died to-day. EPITAPH ON EDWARD...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...hoop of monstrous size; She never slumber'd in her pew,— But when she shut her eyes. Her love v.ta sought, I do aver, By twenty beaux and more; The king...disorder mortal. Let us lament, in sorrow sore, For Kent-street well may fay, That had she lived a twelvemonth more,— But Goldsmith's prose is nn lesa...
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The American Speaker: Being a Collection of Pieces in Prose, Poetry, and ...

Charles Northend - Orators - 1856 - 276 pages
...satins new, With hoop of monstrous size, She never slumbered in her pew, — But when she shut her eyes. Her love was sought, I do aver, By twenty beaux, and more ; The king himself has followed her, — When she has walked before. But now, her wealth and finery fled, Her hangers-on cut...
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Selected Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1887 - 254 pages
...new, With hoop of monstrous size, 15 She never slumber'd in her pew,- — But when she shut her eyes. Her love was sought, I do aver, By twenty beaux and more; The king himself has follow'd her, — 20 When she has walk'd before. But now her wealth and finery fled, Her hangers-on cut short all;...
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Sabrinae corolla in hortulis Regiae scholae salopiensis contexuerunt tres ...

Benjamin Hall Kennedy, James Riddell, George William Clark - English poetry - 1890 - 530 pages
...sought, I do aver, by twenty beaux and more ; the king himself has followed her — when she has walked before. But now her wealth and finery fled, her hangers-on...disorder mortal. Let us lament in sorrow sore, for Kent-street well may say, that, had she lived a twelvemonth more — she had not died to-day. GOLDSMITH....
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Sabrinae corolla in hortulis Regiae scholae salopiensis contexuerunt tres ...

Benjamin Hall Kennedy, James Riddell, George William Clark - English poetry - 1890 - 522 pages
...satins new, with hoop of monstrous size, she never slumbered in her pew — but when she shut her eyes. Her love was sought, I do aver, by twenty beaux and more ; the king himself has followed her — when she has walked before. But now her wealth and 6nery fled, her hangers-on cut...
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Manual of English Literature: Era of Expansion, 1750-1850. Its ...

John Macmillan Brown - English literature - 1894 - 436 pages
...light, That showed the rogues they lied ; The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died." " But now her wealth and finery fled, Her hangers-on...found, when she was dead, Her last disorder mortal." Had Goldsmith been less of a butt in private life, and fallen upon a period of comic periodicals, he...
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The Deserted Village: The Traveller, and Other Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1894 - 112 pages
...new, With hoop of monstrous size, It She never slumber'd in her pew — But when she shut her eyes. Her love was sought, I do aver, By twenty beaux and more ; The king himself has follow'd her — w When she has walk'd before. But now her wealth and finery fled, Her hangers-on cut short all...
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The Deserted Village: The Traveller, and Other Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1894 - 106 pages
...new, With hoop of monstrous size, u She never slumber'd in her pew — But when she shut her eyes. Her love was sought, I do aver, 'By twenty beaux and more ; The king himself has f ollow'd her — so When she has walk'd before. But now her wealth and finery fled, Her hangers-on...
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