 I am an Englishman. and naked I stand here, Musing in my mind what raiment I shall wear, For now I will wear this, and now I will wear that, And now I will wear I cannot tell what.  The American Monthly Magazine - Էջ 1971837Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | William John Fitz-Patrick - 1879 - 456 էջ
...Italy, or Sicily — Heaven only knew ! He had so many spots to visit that it might be said of him— " I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, Musing in my mind what raiment I shall wear." Summer was spent in the deliberation ; and not until December do we find him in the Rieder Schloss.... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1879 - 606 էջ
...Introduction to Knowledge,' to the first chapter prefixed a naked Englishman, with these lines, — I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, Musing in my mind what rayment I shall wear.2 Lucas de Heere returned to his own country before his death, which happened... | |
 | 1880 - 632 էջ
...passed on Englishmen by the old Italians, seeing how soon after this lecture the -hospital was opened. " I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, Musing in my mynde what rayment I shall weare : For now I will weare this, now I will weare that, Now I will weare... | |
 | John George Bishop - 1880 - 522 էջ
...copying the ever-varying fashions of the French and other continental people. His lines are : — " I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, Musing in my mynde what rayment I shall were ; For now I will were this, and now I will were that, Some time after... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 744 էջ
...thy change with rightful spite, Blame not my lute ! VI.*** ANDEEW BOUED, about 1530. THE ENGLISHMAN. I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, Musing in my mind what garment I shall wpar ; For now I will wear this, and now I will wear that, Now I will wear I cannot... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 946 էջ
...invented by Andrew Borde, a learned wit of those days. The print bears the following inscription : — I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, . Musing in my mind, what rayment 1 shall were; For now I will were this, and now I will were that, And now I will were what... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1886 - 474 էջ
...topics. Englishmen's fantasticality in dress, Boorde made himself famous by his woodcut of an Englishman standing naked, with a pair of shears in one hand and a piece of cloth over the other arm, above the lines — 1 am an English man, nud naked I stand here, Musyng in my mynd... | |
 | 1889 - 654 էջ
...engraving of an Englishman with a pair of shears, standing perplexed among a pile of different cloths — I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, Musing in my mind what raiment I shall wear ; For now I will wear this, and now I will wear that, And now I will wear — I cannot tell what. Becon,... | |
 | Charles James Lever - 1894 - 404 էջ
...where to choose, left me in that indecision which the poet pronounces national when he says, — " I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here, Musing in my mind what raiment I shall wear ! " Chance, however, has done for me what my judgment could not. I have been up to Milan and had a... | |
 | Charles Lever - 1894 - 676 էջ
...where to choose, left me in that indecision which the poet pronounces national when he says, — " I am an Englishman, and naked I stand here. Musing in my mind what raiment I shall wear ! " I have been up to Milan and had a look through the newspapers, and I see what I have often predicted... | |
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