| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 էջ
...I lovM, the town and you : Let me just tell you how my time is Past in a country life.— Imprimis, As soon as Phoebus' rays inspect us, First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast ; So on, till fon said .sod does set, 1 sometimes study, sometimes eat. Thus, of your h'Tocs and brave boys. With... | |
| John Campbell (M.A., Oxon.) - 1823 - 90 էջ
...returning, (not to the party, but to his rooms,) he may clear up his mystification with a cup of slops, * As soon as Phoebus' rays inspect us, First, sir, I...foresaid god does set, I sometimes study, sometimes eat: Thus of your heroes and brave boys, With whom old Homer makes such noise; The greatest actions 1 can... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 էջ
...you : Let me just tell you how my time is Past in a country life. — Imprimis, As soon as Phœbus' lso alarms of fear, How bitter is such self-delusion?...so to seek, Or so unprincipled in Virtue's book, Thus, of your heroes and brave boys, With whom old Homer makes such noise, The greatest actions I can... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 էջ
...just tell you how my time is Past in a eountry life»— Imprimis, As soon as Ph:rbus' rays inspeet | Thus, of your heroes and brave boys, With whom old Homer makes sueh noise, The greatest aetions I ean... | |
| Matthew Prior - 1858 - 500 էջ
...loved, the town and you ; Let me just tell you how my time is Past in a country-life. — Imprimis, As soon as Phoebus' rays inspect us, First, Sir, I...foresaid God does set, I sometimes study, sometimes eat. Thus, of your heroes and brave boys, iso With whom old Homer makes such noise, The greatest actions... | |
| Matthew Prior - 1860 - 338 էջ
...lov'd, the town and you ; Let me just tell you how my time is Past in a country -life. — Imprimis, As soon as Phoebus' rays inspect us, First, Sir, I...foresaid god does set, I sometimes study, sometimes eat. Thus, of your heroes and brave boys, With whom old Homer makes such noise, The greatest actions I can... | |
| John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 էջ
...The fields his study, nature was his book. BLOOMFIELD. — Farmer's Boy, Spring. As soon as Phosbus rays inspect us, First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast...foresaid god does set, I sometimes study, sometimes eat. PRIOR. — To Shepherd. Six hours thou may'st give to sleep ; just as many with equity to the laws... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 էջ
...read. POPE. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon. POPE. As soon as Phoebus' rays inspect us, First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast. PRIOR. Come, boy, and go with me ; thy sight is young, And you shall read when mine begins to dazzle.... | |
| William Tegg - 1877 - 362 էջ
...HOUR'S READING. REMARKABLE CUSTOMS, SEASONS AND HOLIDAYS, EPITHETS AND PHRASES, &c., &c. " Ax soon at, Phoebus* rays inspect us, First, Sir. I read, and then I breakfast." PRIOR. COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY WILLIAM TEGG, FRHS, EDITOR OF "The Last Act," " Hone's Three Trials,"... | |
| Eliza Cheadle - 1878 - 236 էջ
...have in reality broken their fast at a much earlier hour, and that the term is merely a misnomer. " As soon as Phoebus' rays inspect us, First, sir, I read, and then to breakfast." That was the old custom, and there is a description in an old book of two noblemen who,... | |
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