Well — well, the world must turn ; upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails. And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering wind shifts, shift our sails... The Poetical Works of Lord Byron - Page 146by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873Full view - About this book
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1819 - 244 pages
...pass) ; A husband rather old, not much in unity With his young wife — a time, and opportunity. IV. Well — well, the world must turn upon its axis....fame, Fighting, devotion, dust, — perhaps a name. V. I said, that Juan had been sent to Cadiz — A pretty town, I recollect it well — 'Tis there the... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1819 - 240 pages
...else the thing had hardly come to pass) ; A husband rather old, not much in unity IV. Well—well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind...breath, love, wine, ambition, fame, Fighting, devotion, dust,—perhaps a name. V. I said, that Juan had been sent to Cadiz— A pretty town, I recollect it... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1821 - 486 pages
...pass ; ) A husband rather old, not much in unity With his young wife — a time, and opportunity. IV. Well — well, the world must turn upon its axis,...fame, Fighting, devotion, dust, — perhaps a name. V. I said, that Juan had been sent to Cadiz — A pretty town, I recollect it well — 'Tis there the... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821 - 460 pages
...— well, tjie world must turn upon ijbs. ajds,. And all mankind turn witk iti,. Ijpads or. tail** And live and die, make love and pay our taxes,. And as the veering wind shifts, shift our. sail* ; The king commands us, and the doctor quacks us, T.he prie&t instructs, and so our life exhales^... | |
| William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 514 pages
...deformity to vice here, misery or happiness hereafter, the following flippant stanza is a specimen : " Well — well, the world must turn upon its axis,...fame, Fighting, devotion, dust, — perhaps a name." [Don Juan, Canto II. Stanza IV.] Every thing sacred to the pious heart — the volume of inspiration... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 pages
...pass ;) A husband rather old, not much in unity With bis young wife — a time, and opportunity. IV. Well — well, the world must turn upon its axis,...us, and the doctor quacks us, The priest instructs us, and so our life exhales A little breath, love, wine, ambition, fame, Fighting, devotion, dust —... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 324 pages
...hushand rather old, not much in unity 'With his young wife—a time, an opportunity. IV. Well—well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind...priest instructs, and so our life exhales, A little hreath, love, wine, amhition, fame, Fighting, devotion, dust,—perhaps a name. V. 1 said, that Juan... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...husband rather old, not much in unity With his young wife—a time, and opportunity. IV. Well—well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind...breath, love, wine, ambition, fame, Fighting, devotion, dust—perhaps a name. V. I said, that Juan had been sent to Cadiz— A pretty town—I recollect it... | |
| Charles Caleb Colton - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1825 - 560 pages
...be so well secured, that his Lordship has not yet been able to get at it himself. IV. " Well—well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And lire and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering wind shifts, shift our sails ; The king... | |
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