 | Cambridge tart - English poetry - 1823 - 318 pages
...saying — " Hobson's choice : this, or none". ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER, WHO SICKEN'D IN THE TIME OP HIS VACANCY; BEING FORBID TO GO TO LONDON, BY REASON OF THE PLAGUE. Here lies old Hobson ; death has broke his girt, And here, alas, hath laid him in the dirt ; Or else... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die*. 15 XI. On the University Carrier, who sickened in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the plague^. HERE lies old Hobson ; Death hath broke his girt, And here, alas, hath laid him in the dirt, 15. And... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...Hobsou'a choice: this, or none." EPITAPH On the University Carrier, who sicken'd in the time of the Vacancy; being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague. Here lies old Hobson ; death has broke his girt, And here, alas! hath laid him in the dirt; Or else... | |
 | 1824 - 486 pages
...Hobson's choice: this, or none." EPITAPH On the University Carrier, who sicken'd in the time of the Vacancy ; being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague. Here lies old Hobson ; death has broke his girt, And here, alas! hath laid him in the dirt; Or else... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. XI. ', ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER, WHO SICKENED IN THE TIME OF HIS vACANCY, BEING FORBID TO GO TO LONDON, BY REASON OF THE PLAGUE. HERE lies old Hobson ; Death hath broke his girt, And here alas, hath laid him in the dirt, Or else... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 476 pages
...shall be given, " Stanley, for whom this stands, shall stand in Heaven." ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER, Who sickened in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the plague*. HERE lies old Hobson; Death hath broke his girt, And here, alas ! hath laid him in the dirt; Or else... | |
 | Artists - 1828 - 442 pages
...Hobson, the Carrier, with eight English verses. [Miltoris Minor Poems. On the University carrier, who sickened in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the plague, 14/. 6s.] Christian Duke of Brunswick, &c. trophies ; four English verses. Robert Devereux (2d.) Earl... | |
 | William Pulleyn - 1829 - 302 pages
...the houre of his death, He that made bellowes could not make breath. ON THE CAMBRIDGE CARRIER, Who sickened in the Time of his Vacancy, being forbid to go to London by Reason of the Plague. Here lies old Hobson, — Death has broke his girt, And here, alas ! hath laid him in the dirt, Or... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...him, it shall be said, ' Hobson has supt, and 's newly gone to bed.' On the University Carrier, who sickened in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London by reason of the Plague. — Milton. DCLxxxyni. The greatest part of the ladies lose themselves very advantageously under their... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...him, it shall be said, ' Hobson has supt, and 's newly gone to bed.' On the University Carrier, who sickened in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London by reason of the Plague.—Milton. * DCLXXXVIif. The greatest part of the ladies lose themselves very advantageously... | |
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ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER, Who sickened in the time of his Vacancy, being forbid to go to London by reason of the Plague Here lies old Hobson. Death hath broke his girt, And here, alas! hath laid him in the dirt; Or else, the ways being foul, twenty to... 
