 | Cork Historical and Archaeological Society - Cork (Ireland : County) - 1893 - 284 pages
...thin, Else his acting for certain was equal to Quinn ; But at last he was beat and sought help from the bin (All the same to the Doctor, from claret to...therein ; It .was much, when the bones rattled loose in his skin, He got leave to die here, out of Babylon's din — Many worse, better few, than bright, broken... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1903 - 888 pages
...save from starvation stirred never a pin. Light for long was his heart, though his breeches were thia ered light. Come gleaming up, true jail and consumption therein. It was much when the bones rattled loose in his skin, He got leave to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1904 - 884 pages
...starvation stirred never a pin. Light for long was his heart, though his breeches were thin, Else his acling whence colonists would naturally have been derived. jail and consumption therein. It was much when the Ijones rattled loose in his skin, He got leave to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1864 - 866 pages
...set himself up as to tin ; So, his portion soon spent — like the poor heir of Lynn — He turned author ere yet there was beard on his chin, And, whoever...doctor, from claret to gin), Which led swiftly to jail, and consumption therein. It was much, when the bones rattled loose in the skin, He got leave... | |
 | Arthur Symons - English literature - 1909 - 362 pages
...thin. Else his acting for certain was equal to Quin : But at last he was beat, and sought help from the bin (All the same to the Doctor, from claret to...therein; It was much, when the bones rattled loose in his skin, He got leave to die here, out of Babylon's din. Barring drink and the girls, I ne'er heard... | |
 | Arthur Symons - Literary Criticism - 1909 - 372 pages
...thin, Else his acting for certain was equal to Quin: But at last he was beat, and sought help from the bin (All the same to the Doctor, from claret to...therein; It was much, when the bones rattled loose in his skin, He got leave to die here, out of Babylon's din. , Barring drink and the girls, I ne'er heard... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 850 pages
...for long was his heart, though his breeches were thin ; But at last he was beat, and sought help from the bin (All the same to the Doctor, from claret to...gin), Which led swiftly to gaol, with consumption within: It was much, when the bones rattled loose in his skin, He got leave to die here, out of Babylon's... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - English wit and humor - 1913 - 404 pages
...prose and rhyme with a promising grin — ' Go ahead, you queer fish, and more power to your fin,'But to save from starvation stirred never a pin, Light...doctor, from claret to gin,) Which led swiftly to jail, and consumption therein. It was much when the bones rattled loose in the skin, He got leave to... | |
 | John Smyth Crone, Seamus O'Cassidy, Colm O Lochlainn - Ireland - 1913 - 262 pages
...for long was his heart, though his breeches were thin, But at last he was beat, and sought help from the bin, (All the same to the Doctor, from claret...therein. It was much, when the bones rattled loose in his skin, Ee got leave to die here, out of Babylon's din. Barring drink and the girls, I ne'er heard... | |
 | Michael Monahan - Authors, Irish - 1914 - 296 pages
...were thin, Else his acting for certain was equal to Quin; But at last he was beat and sought help from the bin, (All the same to the Doctor, from claret...therein. It was much when the bones rattled loose in his skin, He got leave to die here, out of Babylon's din. Barring drink and the girls, I ne'er heard... | |
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Irish brains he would spin ; Who received prose and rhyme with a promising grin — " Go a-head, you queer fish, and more power to your fin," But to save from starvation stirred never a pin. Light for long was his heart, though his breeches were thin,... 
