| T. Noel - Poetry - 1841 - 228 pages
...dirt, right and left, o'er the hedges is hurl'd ! The Pauper at length makes a noise in the world ! " Rattle his bones over the stones ; He's only a Pauper, whom nobody owns I " Poor Pauper defunct ! he has made some approach To gentility, now that he's stretch 'd in a coach... | |
| Books - 1842 - 650 pages
...Not a tear in the eye of child, woman, or man. To the grave with his carcase as fast as you can : ' Rattle his bones over the stones ; He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns !' What a jolting and creaking, and splashing and din ! The whip how it cracks ! and the wheels how... | |
| United States - 1843 - 708 pages
...dirt, right and left, o'er the hedges is hurl'd ! The pauper at length makes a noise in the world ! ' Rattle his bones over the stones ; He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns !' Poor pauper defunct ! he has made some approach To gentility, now that he's stretch'd in a coach... | |
| United States - 1843 - 678 pages
...road it is rough, and the hearse has no springs, And hark to the dirge which the sad driver sings : ' Rattle his bones over the stones ; He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns !' Oh, where are the mourners Т alas ! there are none ; He has left not a gap in the world now he's... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...road it is rough, and the hearse has no springs, And hark to the dirge which the sad driver sings : " Rattle his bones over the stones ; He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns !" Oh, where are the mourners ? alas ! there are none ; He has left not a gap in the world now he's... | |
| Timothy Dwight Sprague - American periodicals - 1847 - 408 pages
...burying ground, lying, as such cemeteries are too commonly found, in a low, damp, and marshy place. " Rattle his bones over the stones, He's only a pauper whom nobody owns," •sang merry, sad Tom Hood. He might have added, And bury him deep in the cold damp mould. It is true,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...coach ; He's taking a drive in his carriage at last, But it will not be long if he goes on so fast ! Rattle his bones over the stones ; He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns. The author tells me that this incident was taken from the life. He witnessed such a funeral : — a... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...the dirt right and left o'er the hedges is hurled ! The pauper at length makes a noise in the world. Rattle his bones over the stones ; He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns. Poor pauper defunct ! he has made some approach To gentility, now that he's stretched in a coach ;... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 580 pages
...tear in the eye of child, woman, or man : — To the grave with his carcass as fast as you can. Battle his bones over the stones ; He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns. How the dirt right and left o'er the hedges is hurled! The pauper at length makes a noise in the world.... | |
| 1856 - 778 pages
...road it is rough, and the hearse has no springs, And hark to the dirge that the sad driver sings : Rattle his bones over the stones ; He's only a pauper whom nobody owns. Oh, where are the mourners ? alas, there are none ! He has left not a gap in the world uow he's gone... | |
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