 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
 | Illustrated poems - 1885 - 370 pages
...Well-a-day ! " My keg is but low, I confess, Gaffer Gray ; What then 1 While it lasts, man, well lire. " The poor man alone, When he hears the poor moan, Of his morsel a morsel will give, Well-a-day!" — THOMAS HOLCROPT. OLD IRONSIDES. AY ! tear her tattered ensign down ! long has it waved on high,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 394 pages
...fair, Well-a-dayl" " 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." THOMAS HOLOROFT. fflffllljat ©onstitutes a State. WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement... | |
 | Edward William Cole - 1892 - 412 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 poor man alone, When he hears the poor moan, Of bis morsel a morsel will give ; Well-a-day ! SCATTER BLESSINGS. By kind permission of Francis, Day,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 464 pages
...fear, Are all for the ЯшЬ and the fair, Well-a-day I" My keg ii 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, Well-e-day ! " INTRODUCTION TO THE "CANTERBURY TALES."*' [SOPHIA and HARRIET LRR. These Indies, authoresses... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...Well-a-day !" My keg is but low, I confess, Gaffer Gray ; What theu ? AVhile it lasts, man, we'll " my sun one early morn did shine, With all triumphant splendor on my brow ; (five, Well-a-day !" THOMAS HOLCKOKT. THE 8oxo OF THE SHIRT. WITH fingers weary and worn. With eyelids... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Anthologies - 1901 - 470 pages
...but low, I confess, Gaffer Gray ; What then ? While it lasts, man, we '11 live. " The poor man aloue, When he hears the poor moan, Of his morsel a morsel will give, Well-a-day!" RAPHAEL HOLINGSHBAD. HOIJNGSHEAD, RAPHAEL, an early English chronicler ; probably born at Sutton Downs,... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1902 - 386 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 !' THE PILGRIM FATHERS FELICIA HEMANS THE breaking waves dash'd high On a stern and rock-bound coast;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 470 pages
...Well-a-day ! " My keg is but low, I confess, Gaffar-Gray ; What then ? While it lasts, man, we '11 live. " The poor man alone, When he hears the poor...moan, Of his morsel a morsel will give, Well-a-day ! " ' CHAPTER III WE have hitherto beheld Mr. Holcroft only in the light of an author, or as a private... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 464 pages
...fair, Well-a-day ! " My keg is but low, I confess, Gaffar-Gray; What then f While it lasts, man, we '11 live. " The poor man alone, When he hears the poor moan, Of his morsel a morsel w1ll give, Well-a-day ! " ' CHAPTER III WE have hitherto beheld Mr. Holcroft only in the light of an... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 412 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...moan, Of his morsel a morsel will give, Well-a-day!" Thomas Holcroft. COCKLE V. CACKLE r I AHOSE who much read advertisement and bills, Y Must have seen... | |
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