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" While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. Returning home at night, you'll find the sink Strike your offended sense with double stink. If you be wise, then go not far to dine : You'll spend in coach-hire... "
The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and ... - Page 86
by Jonathan Swift - 1808
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...a shower: While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her follies, and pursues her tail no more. If you be wise, then go not far to dine ; You'll spend...Old aches will throb, your hollow tooth will rage. BROGUE. In sheets of rain the sky descends, And ocean swell'd with waters upwards tends ; One rising,...
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The Splendid Advantages of Being a Woman

Charles James Dunphie - Women - 1876 - 390 pages
...shower ; While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. If you be wise, then go not far to dine, You'll spend...Old aches will throb, your hollow tooth will rage." Of the truth of these reflections we Londoners have had ample experience during the present month....
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History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour, Volume 2

Alfred Guy L'Estrange - English wit and humor - 1878 - 414 pages
...no more; Returning home at night you'll find the sink Strike your offended nose with double stink ; If you be wise, then go not far to dine, You'll spend...seen, He damns the climate and complains of spleen. . . . Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down, Threatening with deluge this devoted town, To shops...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...shower : While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her follies, and pursues her tail no more. If you be wise, then go not far to dine ; You'll spend...Old aches will throb, your hollow tooth will rage. BROOME. In sheets of rain the sky descends, And ocean swell'd with waters upwards tends; One rising,...
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History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour, Volume 2

Alfred Guy L'Estrange - English wit and humor - 1878 - 370 pages
...no more; Returning home at night you'll find the sink Strike your offended nose with double stink ; If you be wise, then go not far to dine, You'll spend in coach-hire more than save in wine, A coining shower your shooting corns presage, Old aches will throb, your hollow tooth will rage ; Sauntering...
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The biblical museum. Old Testament, Volume 5

James Comper Gray - 1879 - 398 pages
...a shower: whiie rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. If you be wise, then go not far to dine ; you'll spend...aches will throb, your hollow tooth will rage."— flroome. "Themoreaman follows Nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will Ike; the farther...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 3

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...sink Strike your offended sense with double stink. If you be wise, then go not far to dine ; You'1l spend in coach-hire more than save in wine. A coming...Old aches will throb, your hollow tooth will rage • Sanntering in coffee-house is Dulman seen ; He damns the climate, and complains of spleen. Meanwhile...
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The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 1

Jonathan Swift - 1879 - 558 pages
...the sink Strike your offended sense with double stink. 1 To find old nails. — Faulkner. VOL. I. 14 If you be wise, then, go not far to dine : You'll spend in coach-hire more than save in wine. A coining shower your shooting corns presage, Old aches will throb, your hollow tooth will rage ; Sauntering...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...dread a shower While ram depends, the pensive cat gives o'er Her frolies, and pursues uer tail no more. If you be wise, then go not far to dine ; You'll spend...Old aches will throb, your hollow tooth will rage. Broome. The clouds consign their treasures to the fields, And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool Prelusive...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...Returning home at night, you'll find the sink Strike your offended sense with double stink. If yon be wise, then go not far to dine ; You'll spend In...coming shower your shooting corns presage, Old aches \vill throb, your hollow tooth will rage : Sauntering in coffee-house is Dulman seen ; He damns the...
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