 His fat beeves and his beer And his merry new year Are all for the flush and the fair, Well-a-day !" " My keg is but low, I confess, Gaffer Gray : What then ? While it lasts, man, we'll live." " The poor man alone, When he hears the poor moan, Of his...  The adventures of Hugh Trevor - Page 132by Thomas Holcroft - 1794Full view - About this book
 | William Dawbarn - 1862 - 226 pages
...want." And in an evil case his poor friend had to tell him, " My keg is but low, I confess, Gaffer Gray. What, then? While it lasts, man, we'll live." " The...moan, Of his morsel a morsel will give, Well-a-day." Miss Mitford we quote as to the conclusion of the life of Thomas Holcroft. " This author, so gifted,... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1862 - 382 pages
...Are all for the flush and the fair, — Well-a-day ! " " My keg is but low, I confess, Gaffer Gray ; What then ? while it lasts, man, we'll live ! " "...moan, Of his morsel a morsel will give, — Well-a-day ! " [Lady Anne Barnard, the authoress of this tender and affecting ballad, was the daughter of James... | |
 | Humorous poetry - 1867 - 530 pages
...year, Are all for the flush and the fair, Well-a-day!' My keg is but low, I confess, Gaffer Gray ; What then ? While it lasts, man, we'll live. ' The...hears the poor moan, Of his morsel a morsel will give, 1 WRITTEN AFTER SWIMMING FROM SESTOS TO ABYDOS. LORD BYRON. On the 3d of May 1810, while the 'Salsette'... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 pages
...all for the flush and the fair, Well-a-day!" " My keg is but low, I confess, Gaffer Gray: What then7 While it lasts, man, we'll live." " The poor man alone,...moan, Of his morsel a morsel will give, Well-a-day!" This author, so gifted, so various, and so laborious, one of the most remarkable of self-educated men,... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - Elocution - 1872 - 460 pages
...Well-a-day I " "My keg is but low, I confess, Gaffer Gray; What then ? while it lasts, man, we'll live I " " The poor man alone, When he hears the poor moan, Of his morsel a morsel will give, — Well-a-day I " Jlolcrofi Auld Robin Gray. WHEN the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye at hame, And a" the warld... | |
 | H. L. D. Potter - 1873 - 444 pages
...Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door." THOMAS Moss. " The poor man alone, when he hears the poor moan, Of his morsel a morsel will give. \Vell-a-day!" THOMAS HOLCKOFT. * Melody differs from harmony in that the latter is a pleasing union... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1875 - 540 pages
...year, Are all for the flush and the fair, Well-a-day 1' My keg is but low, I confess, Gaffer Gray ; What then ? While it lasts, man, we'll live. ' The...moan, Of his morsel a morsel will give, Well-a-day I' WRITTEN AFTER SWIMMING FROM SESTOS TO ABYDOS. LORD BYRON. On the 3d of May 1810, while the 'Salsette'... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - Elocution - 1876 - 458 pages
...year, Are all for the flush and the fair,— Well-a-day ! " "My keg is hut low, I confess, Gaffer Gray; What then ? while it lasts, man, we'll live ! " "...moan, Of his morsel a morsel will give, — Well-a-day ! " HoUm/t Anld Bobin Gray. WHEN the sheep are in the fauld, and the kye at hame, And a' the warld... | |
 | William Brisbane Dick - Readers - 1877 - 214 pages
...Are all for the flush and the fair— 'Well-a-day !" " My keg is but low, I confess, Gaffer Gray ; What then? while it lasts, man, we'll live !" " The...moan, Of his morsel a morsel will give — Well-a-day !" THE DAWN OF REDEMPTION. JAME3 G. CLARE. See them go forth like the floods to the ocean, Gathering... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...fair, Well-a-day!" My keg is but low, I confess, Gaffer Gray ; What then ? While it lasts, man, we 'll live. " The poor man alone, When he hears the poor...moan, Of his morsel a morsel will give, Well-a-day!" A SLIGHT OMISSION. I HAPPENED to mention to my friend Simplex, that I knew an old man who, at the age... | |
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