| Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 páginas
...CONINGSBY. HERE lies Lord Coningsby — be civil ! The rest God knows — perhaps the Devil. EPIGRAM. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. SIB, I admit your general rule, That every... | |
| Henry Hegart Breen - 1862 - 164 páginas
...write a poem ? Spare yourself the trouble to look into your own head, you will find nothing there : " You beat your pate and fancy wit will come ; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home." The subject has already been handled by twenty writers before you,... | |
| Jest book - 1864 - 396 páginas
..."Where I live" said he, "I don't know; but I stanv towards Wapping, and that way." CCXCV.— EPIGRAM. YOU beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock as you will, there's nobody at home. CCXCVL — TOO COLD TO CHANGE. A LADY reproving a gentleman during a hard frost for swearing, advised... | |
| Epigrams - 1865 - 398 páginas
...we're so frugal, I 'd have you to know it, That a Laureate will serve both tor fool and for poet. 3 You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock as you please, there 's nobody at home. 4 Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool ; But... | |
| John Booth - 1865 - 400 páginas
...we're so frugal, I 'd have you to know it, That a Laureate will serve both for fool and tor poet. 3 You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock as you please, there 's nobody at home. 4 Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool ; But... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 páginas
...struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come ; Knock as you please, there 's nobody at home.f Epigram. * Her wit was more than man, her inuocence a child. D HYDEN.... | |
| 1866 - 328 páginas
...CONINGSBY. HERE lies Lord Coningsby — be civil ! The rest God knows — perhaps the Devil. EPIGRAM. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come: Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. SIB, I admit your general rule, That every... | |
| Severn river - 1867 - 458 páginas
...die ; To know, the steps of youth and mirth Are thine, that pass me by. H. TAYLOH. Nobody at Home. OU beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock as you will, there's nobody at home. Pellada Ponti. ENTI qvi iiomorum culmina verritis Canentiqvc iugo figitis oscula, Undis parcito longum... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 páginas
...APPLIED TO FC HERE Francis Chartres lies: be civil ! The rest God knows — perhaps the devil.* EPIGRAM. You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come : Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. * Pope also applied this epitaph to Lord Coningsby, thus : — ' Here... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 páginas
...unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought. Drydtn, Cymon and Ipl- *• ** You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come, Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. Pope, Spi$fl\m' VAGABOND. Headstrong, determined m his own career,... | |
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