| George Alexander Hoskins - El Khargeh - 1837 - 410 pages
...with HABITS OF THE PEASANTS. 33 the host, " Allah yesellimak" (May God preserve you) is the answer. The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes half...Then pause, and puff — and speak, and pause again. COWPER. If the visit is to a sheakh, his servants bring in coffee ; one bears a tray, on which are... | |
| George Alexander Hoskins - El Khargeh - 1837 - 412 pages
...say, to ingratiate himself with the host, " Allah yesellimak" (May God preserve you) is the answer. The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes half...dozing sages drop the drowsy strain, Then pause, and puff—and speak, and pause again. COWPER. If the visit is to a sheakh, his servants bring in coffee;... | |
| William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...lullaby at night ; Guy Earl of Warwick and fair Eleanore, Or giant-killing Jack would please me more. The pipe with solemn interposing puff Makes half a...enough ; The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain, [again. Then pause and puff, — and speak, and pause Such often like the tube they so admire, Important... | |
| William Cowper - 1841 - 260 pages
...fair Eleanor, Or giant-killing Jack, would please me more. The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, 245 Makes half a sentence at a time enough ; The dozing...admire, Important triflers ! have more smoke than fire. 250 Pernicious weed ! whose scent the fair annoys ; Unfriendly to society's chief joya, Thy worst effect... | |
| William Cowper - 1841 - 456 pages
...lullaby at night ; Guy, Earl of Warwick, and fair Eleanore, Or giant-killing Jack, would please me more. The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes half...Such often, like the tube they so admire, Important trifiers ! have more smoke than fire. Pernicious weed ! whose scent the fair annoys. Unfriendly to... | |
| Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn) - 1856 - 394 pages
...neighbours — it is chit-chat; but when the "lords of the creation" sit and drink and smoke — when The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain, Then pause, and puff, and speak, and pause again, — and talk nonsense about government and the national debt, stocks, race horses, and cigar shops,... | |
| Methodist Church - 1845 - 666 pages
...apartment and furniture whose neatness they so much value. Can ridicule and satire do nothing here 1 The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes half...drowsy strain, Then pause and puff, and speak and puff again. But often, like the tube they so admire, Important triflers ! hare more smoke than fire.... | |
| William Cowper - 1849 - 508 pages
...lullaby at night ; Guy Earl of Warwick and fair Eleanore, Or giant-killing Jack, would please rno more. The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes half a sentence at a time enough ; Thj dozing sages drop the drowsy strain, Th jn pause, and puff — then speak, and pause Sue') often,... | |
| William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pages
...lullaby at night ; Guy Earl of Warwick and fair Eleanore, Or giant-killing Jack, would please me more. The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes half...sages drop the drowsy strain, Then pause, and puff— then speak, and pause again. Such often, like the tube they so admire, Important triflers : have more... | |
| William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...lullaby at niglit; uy Earl of Warwick and fair Eleanore, Or giant-killing Jack, would please me more The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes half...drowsy strain, Then pause, and puff — and speak, and pчш* again. Such often, like the tube they so admire, Important triilers: have more smoke than fire.... | |
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