 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...stranger spake, And sheepishly shook his head: " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch; But i'faith she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church!" THE WOBLD COMPARED TO A STAGE. ALL the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They... | |
 | Cyrus Redding - Cornwall (England : County) - 1842 - 310 pages
...ballad about this well, too long to quote. It concludes with the following stanza: — " I hastened as soon as the wedding was o'er, And left my good...been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church!" This was not the case exactly, if the following story be that from which the lake poet took his subject... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...his head. " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch ; But i' faith she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church." LESSON CLIX. A PARENTAL ODE TO MY FIRST AND ONLY SON, AGED TWO YEARS, ONE 1CONTH AMD FIFTEEN DAYS.... | |
 | People's and Howitt's journal - 938 pages
...said ; But the countryman smiled, as the stranger spoke, And shecpiahly shook his head. " I hastened as soon as the wedding was o'er. And left my good wife in the porch ; But faith ! she had been wiser than I, For she took a bo'.tle to church ! " _ WEH STERNE AND HIS VALET... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...stranger spake, And sheepishly shook his head. " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch : But i'faith, she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church." A CHAPTER ON LOGIC. AN Eton stripling, training for the law, A dunce at Syntax — but a dab at taw,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1872 - 676 pages
...his failuri : — ' After the wedding I hurried away, And left my wife in the porch ; But, i' faith, she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church.' " In the current number of the same paper a writer asks the authority by which Sir Joseph changes the... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 434 pages
...said ; But the countryman smiled as the stranger spoke, And sheepishly shook his head. ' I hastened as soon as the wedding was o'er, And left my good wife in tho porch ; But faith ! she had been quicker than I, For she took a bottle to Church ! ' " 53 — The... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...his head. " I hasten'd as soon as the wedding was done, And left my wife in the porch ; But i' faith she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church." XII THE MARCB OP INTELLECT. OH ! learning's a very fine thing, As also is wisdom and knowledge, For... | |
 | Thomas Clifton Paris - 1851 - 312 pages
...is the subject of a ballad by Southey, which concludes with the following lines : — " I hastened as soon as the wedding was o'er, And left my good wife in the porch, But i' faith she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church ! " At Duloe, 2 m. beyond the village... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Cornwall (England : County) - 1851 - 324 pages
...is the subject of a ballad by Southey, which concludes with the following lines : — " I hastened as soon as the wedding was o'er, And left my good wife in the porrh, But i" faith she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church ! " At Duloe, 2 m. beyond... | |
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But i' faith she had been wiser than I, For she took a bottle to church. 
