 A SPEECH, both pithy and concise, Marks a mind acute and wise; What speech, my friend, say, do you know, Can stand before "Exactly so?" I have a dear and witty friend Who turns this phrase to every end; None can deny that "Yes" or "No" Is meant in this...  Poems - Page 136by Lady Flora Elizabeth Rawdon Hastings - 1842 - 282 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lady Flora Elizabeth Rawdon Hastings - Fore-edge painting - 1841 - 318 pages
...voice shall calm the inward strife, And bid her aching heart " Be still." St Leonard's, Nov. 27, 1834. EXACTLY SO." A SPEECH, both pithy and concise, Marks...that " Yes" or " No" Is meant in this " Exactly so." Or when a bore his ear assails, Good-humour in his bosom fails, No response from his lips will flow,... | |
 | Lady Flora Elizabeth Rawdon Hastings - 1842 - 324 pages
...27th November 1834. The 28th was the anniversary of the death of Lord Hastings—a day which I<ady Flora always remembered with peculiar sadness. " EXACTLY...that " Yes" or " No" Is meant in this " Exactly so." Or when a bore his ear assails, Good-humour in his bosom fails, No response from his lips will flow,... | |
 | Amusing poetry - 1857 - 266 pages
...may share, And pleased and pleasing let me live With merry heart, that laughs at care. CHAELES LA1TB. so." A SPEECH, both pithy and concise, Marks a mind...turns this phrase to every end ; None can deny that " Tes " or " No " Is meant in this " Exactly so." Or when a bore his ear assails, Good-humour in his... | |
 | Popular poetry - English poetry - 1862 - 246 pages
...ape, who would have been aware, if acquainted with Athens, that Piraeus was not a man, but a harbour. "EXACTLY SO." A SPEECH, both pithy and concise, Marks...friend, say, do you know, Can stand before " Exactly so P " I have a dear and witty friend Who turns this phrase to every end ; None can deny that " Yes "... | |
 | Amusing poetry - 1874 - 332 pages
...may share, And pleased and pleasing let me live "With merry heart, that laughs at care. CHAELES LAM3. A SPEECH, both pithy and concise, Marks a mind acute..." Yes " or " No " Is meant in this " Exactly so." Or when a bore his ear assails, Good-humour in his bosom fails, No response from his lips will flow,... | |
 | William Darrah - 1874 - 220 pages
...and concise ,/ V. Marks a mind acnte and wise ; What speech, my friend, say, do you Iiumv, Can gtand before " Exactly so ?" I have a dear and witty friend...to every end ; None can deny that " Yes " or " No " la meant in this " Exactly so.'' Or when a bore his ear assails, Oood-humour in his bosom fails,... | |
 | American poetry - 1920 - 996 pages
...bore: When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards Ride no more? James Kenneth Stephen. " EXACTLY SO " A SPEECH, both pithy and concise, Marks...that "Yes" or "No" Is meant in this " Exactly so." Or when a bore his ear assails. Good-humour in his bosom fails, No response from his lips will flow,... | |
 | American poetry - 1920 - 1016 pages
...bore: When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards Ride no more? /antes Kenneth Stephen. " EXACTLY SO " A SPEECH, both pithy and concise, Marks...do you know, Can stand before "Exactly so?" I have n dear and witty friend Who turns this phrase to every end; None can deny that "Yes" or "No" Is meant... | |
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