 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
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...of a Dean, Rich, fat, and rather apoplectic ; She had one brother, just thirteen, • Whose colour r 25 To her ; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayw second cousin was a peer, And Lord Lieutenant of the County. 48 But titles, and the three per cents,... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2030 pages
...laughed ; I soon found out That ancient ladies have no feeling: My father frowned; but how should gout 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... | |
 | American poetry - 1920 - 1016 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,...Oh! what are they to love's sensations? Black eyes, fair forehead, clustering locks, Such wealth, such honors, Cupid chooses; He cares as little for the... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - American poetry - 1921 - 450 pages
...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. But titles and the three per cents,2 And mortgages, and great relations, 50 And India bonds, and tithes and rents, Oh!... | |
 | Society verse - 1922 - 392 pages
...ancient ladies have no feeling; My father frown'd; but how should gout See 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... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...4° 1 a writer on law 2 a philosopher, cf. p. :jS 3 a pseudonym of Thomas Moore, writer of love songs nd slowly mounts to day. Sunk in Thalestris' arms...nymph he found, Her eyes dejected and her hair unbound colour was extremely hectic ; Her grandmother for many a year Had fed the parish with her bounty ;... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - English poetry - 1927 - 496 pages
...ancient ladies have no feeling: My father frown'd ; but how should gout See 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 ;... | |
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