 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - English literature - 1886 - 316 pages
...puts up his feet on the hob, If he ever drinks port after dinner, If his brow or his breeding is low, If he calls himself " Thompson" or " Skinner, My own...you are preparing the tea, If he talks of the damps or the vapours If he's sleepy while you are capricious, If he has not a musical " Oh I " If he does... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - English literature - 1886 - 316 pages
...the news in the papers While you are preparing the tea, If he talks of the damps or the vapours *97 If he's sleepy while you are capricious, If he has not a musical " Oh ! " If he does not call Werther delicious, — My own Araminta, say " No 1 " If he ever sets foot in the City Among the stockbrokers... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1886 - 878 pages
...breeding is low, If he calls himself " Thompson" or " Skinner," My dear Araminta, say "No!" If lie studies the news in the papers, While you are preparing the tea, If he talks of the damps or the vapom-s, While moonlight lies soft on the sea, If he's sleepy while you are capricious, 19ft... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - English poetry - 1889 - 406 pages
...puts up his feet on the hob, If he ever drinks port after dinner, If his brow or his breeding is low, If he calls himself " Thompson " or "Skinner," My...you are preparing the tea, If he talks of the damps or the vapours While moonlight lies soft on the sea, If he's sleepy, while you are capricious, If he... | |
 | American periodicals - 1889 - 860 pages
...? Alas I if he look like another, A vicar, a banker, a beau, Be deaf to your father and mother — My own Araminta, say No ! If he studies the news in...preparing the tea, If he talks of the damps and the vapors While moonlight lies soft on the sea, If he's sleepy while you are capricious, If he has not... | |
 | Halkett Lord - American literature - 1890 - 302 pages
...cheek ? Alas! if he look like another, A vicar, a banker, a bean, 15e deaf to your father and mother— My own Araminta, say No ! If he studies the news in...moonlight lies soft on the sea, If he's sleepy while you lire capricious, If he lias not a musical ' oh ! ' If he does not call Werther delicious— My own... | |
 | American poetry - 1891 - 734 pages
...puts up his feet on the hob, If he ever drinks port after dinner, If his brow or his breeding is low, If he calls himself " Thompson " or " Skinner," My...preparing the tea, If he talks of the damps and the vapors While moonlight lies soft on the sea, If he 's sleepy while you are capricious, If he has not... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1891 - 452 pages
...wears a top-boot in his wooing, If he puts up his feet on the hob, If he ever drinks port after dinner, If he studies the news in the papers While you are preparing the tea, If he talks of the damps or the vapours While moonlight lies soft on the sea, If he's sleepy while you are capricious, If he... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1891 - 458 pages
...port after dinner, If his brow or his breeding is low, If he calls himself " Thompson" or " Skinner,'' If he studies the news in the papers While you are preparing the tea, If he talks of the damps or the vapours While moonlight lies soft on the sea, If he's sleepy while you are capricious, If he... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1891 - 478 pages
...puts up his feet on the hob, If he ever drinks port after dinner, If his brow or his breeding is low, If he calls himself " Thompson" or " Skinner,'' My own Araminta, say "No 1" CCCLX. THE POPLAR. AY, here stands the Poplar, so tall and so stately, On whose tender rind —... | |
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If he ever drinks port after dinner, If his brow or his breeding is low, If he calls himself 'Thompson' or 'Skinner', My own Araminta, say 'No! 
