 Whose color was extremely hectic ; Her grandmother for many a year Had fed the parish with her bounty ; Her second cousin was a peer, And Lord-Lieutenant of the county.  Littell's Living Age - Page 2921861Full view - About this book
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...ancient ladies have no feeling ; My father frown'd ; but how should gout Find any happiness in kneeling ' She was the daughter of a dean, Rich, fat, and rather apoplectic ; She had one brother just thirteen, Her grandmother, for many a year, Had fed the parish with her bounty ; Her second cousin was a peer,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...ancient ladies have no feeling. My father frowued; but how should gout Find any happiness in kneeling 7 She was the daughter of a dean, Rich, fat, and rather...many a year, Had fed the parish with her bounty; Her second cousin was a peer, And lord-lieutenant of the county. • But titles and the three per cents,... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1852 - 324 pages
...ancient ladies have no feeling ; My father frown'd ; but how should gout Find any happiness in kneeling ? She was the daughter of a dean, Rich, fat, and rather...many a year, Had fed the parish with her bounty ; Her second cousin was a peer, And lord-lieutenant of the county. But titles and the three per cents, And... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...Her second cousin was a peer, And lord-lieutenant of the county. But titles and the three per cents, And mortgages and great relations, And India Bonds,...and rents, Oh ! what are they to love's sensations 1 Black eyes, fair foreheads, clustering locks ; Such wealth, such honors Cupid chooses ; lie cares... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...ancient ladies have no feeling. My father frowned - but how should gout Find any happiness in kneeling ? She was the daughter of a dean, Rich, fat, and rather...apoplectic ; She had one brother just thirteen, Whose colour was extremely hectic ; Her grandmother for many a year, Had fed the parish with her bounty ;... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...ancient ladies have no feeling. My father frowued; but how should gout Find any happiness in kneeling \ She was the daughter of a dean, Rich, fat, and rather...many a year, Had fed the parish with her bounty; Her second cousin was a peer, And lord-lieutenant of the county. But titles and the three per cents, And... | |
 | Caroline Leigh Gascoigne - 1855 - 376 pages
...gentle flourish, he murmured, still smiling to himself, — ' For titles, and the three per cents., And mortgages, and great relations, And India bonds,...and rents, Oh ! what are they to Love's sensations ?' " Nothing, indeed ! " said Mr. Somerset, VOL. II. 0 answering himself with a very decided slap of... | |
 | James Parton - English poetry - 1856 - 700 pages
...ancient ladies have no feeling; My father frown'd; but how should gout Find any happiness in kneeling ? She was the daughter of a dean, Rich, fat, and rather...many a year, Had fed the parish with her bounty ; Her second cousin was a peer, And lord-lieutenant of the county. But titles and the three per cents, And... | |
 | James Parton - English poetry - 1856 - 720 pages
...hectic ; **er grandmother, for many a year, Bad fed the parish with her bounty ; Her second cousin was a peer, And lord-lieutenant of the county. But titles and the three per cents, And mortgages, and great relations, And India bonds, and tithes and rents, Oh ! what... | |
 | James Parton - English poetry - 1857 - 706 pages
...frown'd ; but how should gout Find any happiness in kneeling ? She was the daughter of a dean, Eich, fat, and rather apoplectic ; She had one brother just...many a year, Had fed the parish with her bounty ; Her second cousin was a peer, And lord-lieutenant of the county. But titles and the three per cents, And... | |
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