 From seventeen years till now almost fourscore Here lived I, but now live here no more. At seventeen years many their fortunes seek, But at fourscore it is too late a week: Yet fortune cannot recompense me better Than to die well and not my master's debtor.  Shifting Scenes in Theatrical Life - Page 179by Eliza Winstanley - 1864 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...together, And ere we have thy youthful wages spent, We'll light upon some settled low content. Adam Master, go on and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty. XI RICHMOND ENCOURAGING HIS SOLDIERS. THUS far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1851 - 380 pages
...REDGAUNTLET.— I. EDINBUEGH: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK. REDGAUNTLET. A TALE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTUHY. Master, go on ; and I will follow thee, To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. At You Lilce it. VOL. XXXV. INTRODUCTION REDGAUNTLET. 1 HE Jacobite enthusiasm of the eighteenth century,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 pages
...together : And ere we have thy youthful wages spent, We 'll light upon some settled low content. ADAM. Master, go on ; and I will follow thee, To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. — From seventeen years" till now almost fourseore Here lived I, but now live here no more. At seventeen... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1916 - 1168 pages
...together, And ere we have thy youthful wages spent, We'll light upon some settled low content. Adam. Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty. 70 From seventeen years till now almost fourscore Here lived I, but now live here no more. At seventeen... | |
 | Clark Prescott Bissett - 1916 - 74 pages
...into a love, and finally a veneration and reverence until with old Adam, Seward was wont to cry out: "Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with faith and loyalty." With a grace peculiarly his own, Seward adapted himself to the new conditions,... | |
 | Education - 1907 - 512 pages
...conduct, as a bond between the two men strengthened, said — or seemed to say — with old Adam: — 'Master, go on, and I will follow thee, To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.' To the last gasp, indeed. For when Lincoln was murdered, the assassins, as if their foul work might... | |
 | Washington Irving - Christmas - 1919 - 326 pages
...speech of Old Adam in As You Like It, when tottering after the youthful son of his ancient master : ' Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp, with love and loyalty ! ' NOTE. — I cannot but mention a tablet which I have seen somewhere in the chapel... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1920 - 654 pages
...during his years of service in the family, and says the words with which he has immortalized himself:4 Master go on and I will follow thee, To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. The characters not appearing in Lodge, which may be called purely Shakespearean creations, are chiefly... | |
 | Medicine - 1915 - 720 pages
...concerned, whose feelings would not find fitting expression in the words found in "As You Like It": I will follow thee, To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. We have been at some pains to ascertain the truth, and so far as we can discover, the three German... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 696 pages
...«^S:,ACHrsKlTS PKINTtD IN THE USA REDGAUNTLET L'I -'* A TALE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY c* i VOLUME I 3 Master, go on ; and I will follow thee, To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. As You Like It. M< INTRODUCTION 'THE Jacobite enthusiasm of the eighteenth century, particularly during... | |
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