 Full oft by holy feet our ground was trod, Of clerks good plenty here you mote espy. A little, round, fat, oily man of God, Was one I chiefly mark'd among the fry : He had a roguish twinkle in his eye, And shone all glittering with ungodly dew, If a tight...  Hamel, the Obeah man - Pagina 270door Hamel (fict.name.) - 1827Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Hazlitt - 1852 - 330 pagina’s
...ran riot), has indulged in rather a free description of " a little round, fat, oily man of God Who shone all glittering with ungodly dew, If a tight...trippen by ; Which, when observed, he shrunk into hie mew, And straight would recollect hia piety anew." Now, was tbe piety in this case the less real,... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pagina’s
...cared to repeat, Full oft by holy feet our ground was trod, Of clerks good plenty here you mote espy. s ' + * mark'd among the fry : He had a roguish twinkle in his eye, And shone all glittering with ungodly dew,... | |
 | 1852 - 460 pagina’s
...cared to repeat. Full oft by holy feet our ground was trod ; Of clerks good plenty here you mote espy ; A little, round, fat, oily man of God,| Was one I chiefly mark'd among the fry : He had a roguish twinkle in his eye, * Quin, the actor, f Thomson himself. All... | |
 | James Thomson, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 408 pagina’s
...clerks good plenty here you mote espy. A little, round, fat, oily man of God,1 Was one I chiefly mark'd among the fry : He had a roguish twinkle in his eye,...all glittering with ungodly dew, If a tight damsel chaunced to trippen by ; Which when observed, he shrunk into his mew, And straight would recollect... | |
 | James Thomson - 1854 - 312 pagina’s
...clerks good plenty here you mote espy. A little, round, fat, oily man f of God, Was one I chiefly mark'd among the fry : He had a roguish twinkle in his eye, And shone all glittering with ungodly dew, # The following lines of this stanza were writ by a friend of the author (since understood to have... | |
 | James Thomson - 1854 - 312 pagina’s
...plenty here you mote espy. A little, round, fat, oily man f of God, Was one I chiefly mark'd aniong the fry : He had a roguish twinkle in his eye, And shone all glittering with ungodly dew, * The following lines of this stanza were writ by a friend of the author (since understood to have... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 362 pagina’s
...— " Full oft by holy feet our ground was trod, — Of clerks good plenty here yon mote espy; — A little round, fat, oily man of God Was one I chiefly marked among the ftyi il" had a roguish twinkle in his eye, Which (hone all glittering with ungodly dew, When a tight... | |
 | James Thomson - 1857 - 314 pagina’s
...you mote espy. A little, round, fat, oily man f of God, Was one I chiefly mark'd among the fry : 1 He had a roguish twinkle in his eye, And shone all glittering with ungodly dew, *• The following linea of this stanza were writ by a friend of the author (since understood to have... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 pagina’s
...cared to repeat. Full oft by holy feet our ground was trod ; Of clerks good plenty here you mote espy ; A little, round, fat, oily man of God,:): Was one I chiefly mark'd among the fry : He had a roguish twinkle in his eye, * Quin, the actor. f Thomson himself. AH... | |
 | Alexander Carlyle - 1860 - 598 pagina’s
...sat for the portrait of the "little, fat, round, oily man of God" in the Crvsile of Indolence, who "had a roguish twinkle in his eye, and shone all glittering with ungixUy dew." — ED. last, and disappointed me both by his appearance and conversation. Armstrong... | |
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