| Hunting - 1796 - 426 pages
...requefts tha.t no gentleman will Jmoke in the boxes or pit !'' ANECDOTE. Sir Win. Dawe*, Archbiihop of York, was very fond of a pun. His clergy dining with him, for the firfl time, after he had loft his ladv, he told them he feared they ¿lid not find things in inch good... | |
| Massachusetts - 1800 - 458 pages
...the beginning of WISDOM — -the fear of that Lord whom Solomon feared. SIR William Dawes, Archbiihop of York, was very fond of a pun. His clergy dining...after he had loft his lady, he told them, he feared thjey did not find things in fo good order as they ufed tobe in the time of poor Mary ; and, looking... | |
| Charles Henry Wilson - Anecdotes - 1804 - 428 pages
...great grandmother, having several great grandchildren. SIR WILLIAM DAWES. SIR William Dawes, Archbishop of York, was very fond of a pun. His clergy dining with him for the first time after he had lost his lady, he told them, he feared they did not find things in so good... | |
| Charles Henry Wilson - Anecdotes - 1804 - 428 pages
...Archbishop of York, was very fond of a pun. His clergy dining with him for the first time after he had lost his lady, he told them, he feared they did not find things in so good order as they used to be in the time of poor Mary ; and, looking extremely sorrowful, added,... | |
| English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...parsons pulled a corkscrew oat of their pockets ' t FORTUNATE Pux.— Sir William Daws, Archbishop of York, was very fond of a pun. His clergy dining- with him, for the first time after he had lost his lady, he told them he feared they did not find things in so good order... | |
| 1819 - 504 pages
...Master a Catholic, and conscientiously kept his word. Clerical IVit.—S\r William Dawes, Archbishop of York, was very fond of a pun. His clergy dining with him, for the first time after he had lost his lady, he told them, he feared they did not find things in so good... | |
| Henry Kett - English wit and humor - 1825 - 298 pages
...for a pun. 184. When archhishop of York, his clergy dining with him the first time after he had lost his lady, he told them he feared they did not find things in so good order as they used to be in the time of poor Mary ; and added with a deep sigh, she was indeed... | |
| 1828 - 488 pages
...trusting to your future patronage and favour I remain yours to command. SIR WILLIAM DAWS, archbishop of York, was very fond of a pun. His clergy dining with him, for the first time after he had lost his lady, he told them he feared they did not find things in so good order... | |
| Questions and answers - 1871 - 704 pages
...story by inverting its details ? I have always heard it thus : — " Sir William Dawes, Archbishop of York, was very fond of a pun. His clergy dining with him fur the first time after he had lost his lady, he told them he feared they did not find things in so... | |
| William Keddie - Literature - 1854 - 400 pages
...good nature and fondness of a pun. His clergy dining with him, for the first time af ler he had lost his lady, he told them, he feared they did not find things in so good order as they used to be in the time of poor Mary ; and, looking extremely sorrowful, added... | |
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