 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 pages
...books, Last Monday to the pastry-cook's. To fancy they could live a year ! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time,) And had a kind of knack at rhyme.] His way of writing now is past ; The town has got a better taste ; I keep no antiquated stuff, But spick and span I have enough.... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - American poetry - 1884 - 430 pages
...books, Last Monday to the past 17 cook's. To fancy they could live a year ! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme. His way of writing now is past : The '.own has got a better taste. I keep no antiquated stuff, But spick-and-span I have enough.... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 462 pages
...books, Last Monday to the pastry-cook's. To fancy they could live a year ! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme. His way of writing now is past ; The town has got a better taste ; I keep no antiquated stuff, But spick and span I have enough.... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 440 pages
...books, Last Monday to the pastry-cook's. To fancy they could live a year ! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme. His way of writing now is past ; The town has got a better taste ; I keep no antiquated stuff, But spick and span I have enough.... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 454 pages
...books, Last Monday to the pastry-cook's. To fancy they could live a year ! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme. His way of writing now is past; The town has got a better taste; I keep no antiquated stuff, But spick and span I have enough.... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 440 pages
...books, Last Monday to the pastry-cook's. To fancy they could live a year ! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme. His way of writing now is past ; The town has got a better taste ; I keep no antiquated stuff, But spick and span I have enough.... | |
 | Edmund William Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...books, Last Monday to the pastry-cook's. To fancy they could live a year ! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme. His way of writing now is past ; The town has got a better taste ; I keep no antiquated stuff, But spick and span I have enough.... | |
 | Verein für Volkskunde (Germany) - Folklore - 1895 - 516 pages
...unerfreulich witzelnder und burschikoser Ton beliebt, wie er sich hier breit macht. Wenn Swift einmal s-,igt: „The dean was famous in his time and had a kind of knack of rhyme", so giebt dieser Witz dem Verf. gleich Anlass, zu erklären, alle Genialität bestehe nur... | |
 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 pages
...books Last Monday to the pastrycook's. To fancy they could live a year ! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme. His way of writing now is past, The town has got a better taste." ' Enough has been transcribed to show Swift's art in this poem,... | |
 | John Dennis - English literature - 1899 - 294 pages
...books Last Monday to the pastrycook's. To fancy they could live a year I I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time. And had a kind of knack at rhyme. His way of writing now is past, The town has got a better taste."' Enough has been transcribed to show Swift's art in this poem,... | |
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To fancy they could live a year ! I find you're but a stranger here. The Dean was famous in his time, And had a kind of knack at rhyme : His way of writing now is past ; The town has got a better taste. I keep no antiquated stuff, But spick and span I... 
