 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - American poetry - 1902 - 508 pages
...And so I remain in a civil way, your servant to command, MARY. Jonathan Swift THE BELLE OF THE BALL Years — years ago, — ere yet my dreams Had been of being wise and witty, — Ere I had done with writing themes, Or yawn'd o'er this infernal Chitty ; — Years,... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - American poetry - 1902 - 506 pages
...And so I remain in a civil way, your servant to command, MABY. Jonathan Swift THE BELLE OF THE BALL Years — years ago, — ere yet my dreams Had been of being wise and witty, — Ere I had done with writing themes, Or yawn'd o'er this infernal Chitty; — Years,... | |
 | John N. Crawford - Authors, English - 1903 - 432 pages
...Thomas Hood, wit, humorist, and poet, than he has ever before known. WINTHROP M. PRAED. (1802-1839.) YEARS, years ago, ere yet my dreams Had been of being...this infernal Chitty ; Years, years ago, while all my joys Were in my fowling-piece and filly ; In short, while I was still a boy, I fell in love with Laura... | |
 | English poetry - 1904 - 876 pages
...she had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to church." ROBERT SOUTHEY. THE BELLE OF THE BALL. YEARS, years ago, ere yet my dreams Had been of being...infernal Chitty, — Years, years ago, while all my joys Were in my fowling-piece and filly; In short, while I was yet a boy, 1 fell in love with Laura... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1907 - 654 pages
...she had Another morn than ours. 16 WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED (1802-1839) THE BELLE OF THE BALL-ROOM Years — years ago, — ere yet my dreams Had been...with writing themes, Or yawned o'er this infernal Chilly; — Years — years ago, — while all my joy Was in my fowling-piece and filly, — In short,... | |
 | American poetry - 1907 - 398 pages
...half The light her love o'er mine is throwing Winthrop Mack-worth Praed. THE BELLE OF THE BALL-ROOM YEARS — years ago, — ere yet my dreams Had been...witty, — Ere I had done with writing themes, Or yawn'd o'er this infernal Chitty; — Years — years ago,— while all my joy Was in my fowling-piece... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - American literature - 1912 - 1230 pages
...Perkina SteUm. l-iMui In I ha our World, and athtr Foemi. By permission of UK Authonn.J THE COUNTY BALL. YEARS — years ago — ere yet my dreams Had been...infernal Chitty ; Years — years ago, while all my jov Was in my fowling-piece and filly, In short, while I was yet a boy, I fell in love with Laura Lily.... | |
 | Mary Jane Taber - Bells - 1912 - 208 pages
...temples, and in western countries as a call to meals in hotels, steamboats, etc. THE BELLE OF THE BALL Years, years ago, ere yet my dreams Had been of being...infernal "Chitty," Years, years ago, while all my joys, Were in my fowling piece and filly, In short, while I was yet a boy I fell in love with Laura... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...Praising God with sweetest looks. 16 WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED (1802-1839) • THE BELLE OF THE BALL-ROOM h sad overthrow and foul defeat 133 Hath lost us Heaven,...destruction laid thus low, As far as gods and Heavenly ess 1 ; — Years — years ago, — while all my joy Was in my fowling-piece and filly, — In short,... | |
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Were in my fowling-piece and filly; In short, while I was yet a boy, I fell in love with Laura Lilly. I saw her at the County Ball; There, when the sounds of flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet in that old hall Of hands across and... 
