 | 1889 - 610 páginas
...month and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his tongue and drop a tear, The rest will give a shrug and cry, "'Tis pity, but we all must die."' Among Swift's titles to respect and affection — it is to be feared... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1890 - 364 páginas
...will grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry, "I'm sorry—but we all must die! " Indifference, clad in Wisdom's guise, All fortitude of mind supplies... | |
 | James Hay - 1891 - 390 páginas
...medals were to be sent in four months, but never came. Y St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug and cry, I'm sorry, but we all must die. My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learned to act their parts, Receive the news in... | |
 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 388 páginas
...would grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry, ' I'm^sorry, but^we all must die ! ' My female friends, whose tender hearts Have better learned to... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 404 páginas
...grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day ; St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug,...how can stony bowels melt, In those who never pity folt ? When wo are lashed, they kiss the rod Resigning to the will of God." The defence of his own... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1894 - 250 páginas
...would grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day; St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen and drop a tear; The rest will give a shrug and cry, " I'm sorry, but we all must die."' It is a matter of notoriety that Gay was very fat and fond of eating. He is, as we have already said,... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1894 - 256 páginas
...grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day ; St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen and drop a tear ; The rest will give a shrug and cry, " I'm sorry, bat we all must die. " ' It is a matter of notoriety that Gay was very fat and fond of eating. He is,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 400 páginas
...grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day ; St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry, ' I'm sorry—but we all must die !' Indifference, clad in wisdom's guise, All fortitude of mind supplies... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 404 páginas
...grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day ; St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry, ' I'm sorry—but we all must die !' Indifference, clad in wisdom's guise, All fortitude of mind supplies... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 páginas
...would grieve a month, and Gay A week, and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug, and cry, 'I'm sorry — but we all must die!' ***** Suppose me dead ; and then suppose A club assembled at the Rose ; Where, from discourse of this... | |
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Here shift the scene, to represent How those I love, my death lament. Poor Pope will grieve a month, and Gay A week; and Arbuthnot a day. St. John himself will scarce forbear, To bite his pen, and drop a tear. The rest will give a shrug and cry, 'I'm... 
