 our Mayor's a noddy And as for our Corporation — shocking To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or won't determine What's best to rid us of our vermin! You hope, because you're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease?...  The Children's journal - Pagina 57Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 344 pagina’s
..."our Mayor's a noddy ; And as for our Corporation — shocking To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or won't determine What's best...and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. IV. An hour they sat in council, At length the Mayor broke silence : " For a guilder I'd my ermine... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 328 pagina’s
..."our Mayor's a noddy; And as for our Corporation — shocking To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or won't determine What's best...and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sate in counsel, At length the Mayor broke silence : " For a guilder I'd my ermine gown... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1890 - 330 pagina’s
...Mayor's a noddy; "And as for our Corporation — shocking "To think we buy gowns lined with ermine "For dolts that can't or won't determine "What's best...and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. IV. An hour they sat in council, At length the Mayor broke silence: "For a guilder I'd my ermine gown... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1890 - 976 pagina’s
...our Mayor's a noddy ; And as for our Corporation — shocking To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or won't determine What's best...old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease t Rouse up. Sirs ! Give your brains a racking To find the remedy we're lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'll... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 pagina’s
...a noddy; And as for our corporation — shocking ! To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For doks that can't or wont determine What's best to rid us...vermin ! You hope, because you're old and obese, To fin 1 in the furry civic robe ease ? Rouse up, sirs ! Give your brains a racking To find the remedy... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 482 pagina’s
...Mayor's a noddy ; And as for our Corporation — shocking, To think we buy gowns lined with ermine, For dolts that can't or won't determine What's best...and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation.' A person of musical abilities proposes to extricate the civic dignitaries from the difficulty, and... | |
 | Grace Townsend - 1891 - 570 pagina’s
...Mayor's a noddy; And as for our corporation — shocking ! To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or wont determine What's best...and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sat in council, At length the Mayor broke silence: "For a guilder I'd my ermine gown sell;... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 576 pagina’s
...the people in a body To the town hall came flocking : "Tis clear,' cried they, 'our mayor's a noddy; You hope, because you're old and obese, To find in...lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing 1 ' At this the mayor and corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation." A person of musical abilities... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pagina’s
...'our Mayor's a noddy: And as for our Corporation — shocking To think we buv gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or won't determine What's best...you're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe case? Rouse up, sirs I Give your brains a racking To find the remedy we're lacking, Or, sure as fate,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1891 - 422 pagina’s
...dolts that can't or won't determine What 's best to rid us of our vermin ! You hope, because you 're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease...sirs ! Give your brains a racking To find the remedy we 're lacking, Or, sure as fate, we '11 send you packing ! " At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked... | |
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