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" Whose colour 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. "
The Literary souvenir; or, Cabinet of poetry and romance, ed. by A.A. Watts - Page 113
edited by - 1831
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Lillian, and Other Poems

Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1852 - 324 pages
...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...fair forehead, clustering locks, Such wealth, such honors, Cupid chooses ; He cares as little for the stocks, As Baron Rothschild for the muses. She sketch'd...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 1

Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...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...what are they to love's sensations ? Black eyes, fair foreheads, clustering locks, Such wealth, such honours Cupid chooses ; He cares as little for the stocks,...
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Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...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...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...
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The next-door neighbours, by the author of 'Temptation'.

Caroline Leigh Gascoigne - 1855 - 376 pages
...Then, raising his hand with a little gentle flourish, he murmured, still smiling to himself, — ' For titles, and the three per cents., And mortgages, and...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...
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The Humorous Poetry of the English Language: From Chaucer to Saxe ... with ...

James Parton - English poetry - 1856 - 700 pages
...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...fair forehead, clustering locks. Such wealth, such honors, Cupid chooses; He cares as little for the stocks, As Baron Rothschild for the muses. She sketch'd;...
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Stories for single gentlemen

Stories - 1858 - 274 pages
...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...clustering locks, Such wealth, such honours, Cupid chooses; He cares as little for the stocks, As Baron Eothschild for the muses. She Bketch'd; the vale,...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 29

Literature - 1859 - 558 pages
...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...clustering locks, Such wealth, such honours, Cupid chooses , He cares as little for the stocks, As Baron Rothschild for the muses. She smil'd on many...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 69

American periodicals - 1861 - 850 pages
...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, fuir forehead, clustering locks, Such wealth, such honors, Cupid chooses ; He cares as little for the...
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The poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed, with a memoir by D. Coleridge, Volume 2

Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1864 - 466 pages
...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...clustering locks — Such wealth, such honours, Cupid chooses ; He cares as little for the Stocks, As Baron Rothschild for the Muses. She sketched; the vale,...
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The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Volume 2

Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1864 - 454 pages
...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...clustering locks — Such wealth, such honours, Cupid chooses; He cares as little for the Stocks, As Baron Rothschild for the Muses. She sketched ; the vale,...
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