 I'VE often wish'd that I had clear For life six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace-walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood. Well, now I have all this, and more, I ask not to increase...  The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal - Pagina 1451859Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1787 - 446 pagina’s
...my garden's end, A terras walk, and half a rood 5 Of land set out to plant a wood. Well, now I have all this, and more, I ask not to increase my store, But should be perfeftly content, Could I but live on this side Trent, »o Nor cross the Channel twice a-year,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pagina’s
...wood. Well, now I have all this and more, a(k not to increafe my ftorc ; Rut here a grievance fcems to lie, All this is mine but till I die; I can't but think 'twould found more clever, To me and to my heirs for ever." ' If I ne'er got or loft a groat By any trick or... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 972 pagina’s
...Well, now I have all this and more, I afk not to increafe my (lore ; * But here a grievance feeort to lie, ' All this is mine but till I die ; ' I can't but think 'twould found more clever, * To me and to my heirs for ever. ' If I ne'er got or loft a groat, ' By any trick,... | |
 | 1796 - 500 pagina’s
...my garden's end, A terrace-walk, and half a rood 5 Of land set out to plant a wood. Well, now I have all this, and more, I ask not to increase my store...grievance seems to lie, ' All this is mine but till I die; 10 ' I can't but think 't would sound more clever, ' To me and to my heirs for ever. ' If I ne'er got... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pagina’s
...Well, now I have all this and more, T alk not to incrcule my ftorc ; • Bat here a grievance iecms to lie, • All this is mine but till I die ; ' i can't but think 't would i'ound more clever " To me, and to my heirs for ever.'1 ' If I nt'cr got or loft a groat •... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 456 pagina’s
...garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood 5 Of land, set out to plant a wood. Well, now I have all this and more, I ask not to increase my store...grievance seems to lie, " All this is mine but till I die; 10 " I can't but think 'twould sound more clever, " To me and to my heirs for ever. " If I ne'er got... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 352 pagina’s
...garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood . Of land, set out to plant a wood. Well, now• I have all this and more, I ask not to increase my store;...'twould sound more clever," To me and to my heirs for ever. " If I ne'er got or lost a groat, By any trick, or any fault; And if I pray by reason's rules,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pagina’s
...my garden's end, A terrace-walk, and half a rood 5 Of land set out to plant a wood. Well, now I have all this, and more, I ask not to increase my store...grievance seems to lie, ' All this is mine but till I die ; 10 ' I can't but think 'twould sound more clever, ' To me and to my heirs for ever. If I ne'er got... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pagina’s
...my garden's end, A terras-walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood. Well, now I have all this and more, I ask not to increase my store...grievance seems to lie, ' All this is mine but till I die ; ' 1 can't but think 'twould sound more clever, ' To me and to my heirs for ever. ' If I ne'er got... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pagina’s
...terrace-walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood. Well, now I have all this, and more, I asV not to increase my store ; But here a grievance seems to lie, All this is mine bat till I die ; I can't but think 'twould sound more clever, To me and to my heirs for ever. If I... | |
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