 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1847 - 560 pages
...account of the fat knight's death-bed : — " After I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew...as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green fields." Mr. Wordsworth has the questionable honor of leading the way to this exaggerated and fantastic manner,... | |
 | 1847 - 784 pages
..."After I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his finders' ends, 1 knew there was but one way ; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green fields." Mr. Wordsworth has the questionable honor of leading the way to this exaggerated and fantastic manner,... | |
 | 1847 - 814 pages
..."After I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends, 1 knew there was but one way ; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green fields." Mr. Wordsworth has the questionable honor of leading the way to this exaggerated and fantastic manner,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pages
...with flowers, and smile upon his fingers1 ends, I knew there was but one way ; for his nose was •u sharp as a pen. and 'a babbled of green fields. How...John ? quoth I : what, man ! be of good cheer. So 'a cned out — God, God, God ! three or four times : now I. to comfort him. bid him, 'a should not think... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1849 - 660 pages
...' A fter I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' end, I knew there was but one way, for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green fields.' Falstaff, to whom a tavern chair was the throne of human felicity, and whose heart was never open to... | |
 | Bridges - 1849 - 644 pages
...humour: 'After I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' end, I knew there was but one way, for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green fields.' Falstaff, to whom a tavern chair was the throne of human felicity, and whose heart was never open to... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - English literature - 1850 - 582 pages
...twelve and one, e'en at turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers* ends, I knew...quoth I: "what, man! be of good cheer. So 'a cried out—God, God, God! three or four times: now I, to comfort him, bid him 'a should not think of God;... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1850 - 604 pages
...deeply pathetic in the midst of its humor : " After I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew...as sharp as a pen, and "a babbled of green fields." Falstaff, to whom a tavern chair was the throne of human felicity, and whose heart was never open to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850 - 554 pages
...twelve and one, e'en at turning o' the tide; for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew...as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green fields. 3 How now, sir John ? quoth I; 2 ie chrisom child; which was one that died within one month of birth,... | |
 | 1850 - 600 pages
...deeply pathetic in the midst oi its humor : " After I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew...as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green fields." Falstaff, to whom a tavern chair was the throne of human felicity, and whose heart was never open to... | |
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A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers... 
