| Belgravia - 1870 - 558 pages
...If he had lived to this day, what would have been the course of the Tory party? Vain speculations. ' If wit were always radiant, And wine were always iced, And bores were kick'd out straightway Through some convenient gateway, — Then down life's easy gradient One well... | |
| Robert Hall Baynes - 1878 - 670 pages
...a fellow's chair. If wit were always radiant, And wine were always iced, And bores were kicked-out straightway Through a convenient gateway; Then down...wit were always radiant, And wine were always iced. This, also — from the Owl, too, I believe — is very neat, and is thoroughly in Collins's familiar... | |
| Mortimer Collins - 1879 - 292 pages
...Swinburne's A Match, If life were never bitter, And love were always sweet, Then who would care to horrow A moral from to-morrow? If Thames would always glitter,...wit were always radiant, And wine were always iced. annoy you extremely that the Earl Eussell lives close by, and often strolls as far as this to look... | |
| Mortimer Collins - 1879 - 290 pages
...sweet. If care were not the waiter Behind a fellow's chair, When easy-going sinners Sit down to Eichmond dinners ; And life's swift stream flows straighter...wit were always radiant, And wine were always iced. RICHMOND. 63 annoy you extremely that the Earl Eussell lives close by, and often strolls as far as... | |
| Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1879 - 296 pages
...fellow's chair, When easy-going sinners Sit down to Richmond dinners ; And life's swift stream,flows straighter — By Jove it would be rare, * If care...wit were always radiant, And wine were always iced. f KICHMOND. 63 annoy you extremely that the Earl Eussell lives close by, and often strolls as far as... | |
| William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 274 pages
...ring, It is, to my fancy, a much better thing Than a kiss after putting one on ! JAMES SMITH. IF! F life were never bitter, And love 'were always sweet,...wit were always radiant, And wine were always iced. MORTIMER COLLINS. "THERE STANDS A CITY." EAR by year do Beauty's daughters In the sweetest gloves and... | |
| William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 264 pages
...ring, It is, to my fancy, a much better thing Than a kiss after putting one on ! JAMES SMITH. IF! F life were never bitter, And love were always sweet,...wit were always radiant, And wine were always iced. MORTIMER COLLINS. "THERE STANDS A CITY." EAR by year do Beauty's daughters In the sweetest gloves and... | |
| William T. Dobson - 1882 - 320 pages
...fellow's chair, When easy-going sinners Sit down to Richmond dinners, And life's swift stream goes straighter — By Jove, it would be rare, If care...wit were always radiant, And wine were always iced." The next instance, by the same author, is another good imitation of Mr. Swinburne's style. It is a... | |
| 1889 - 366 pages
...never bitter, And love were always sweet, Then who would care to borrow A moral from to morrow — If Thames would always glitter, And joy would ne'er...wit were always radiant, And wine were always iced. MORTIMER COLLINS. As a parody this is scarcely inferior to that of Mr. Tom Hood, but the poet has let... | |
| Carolyn Wells - 1904 - 438 pages
...was so skilful to bake, He hies him once more to the runlet, To fetch her the Drake ! Lewis Carroll. IF! IF life were never bitter, And love were always...wit were always radiant, And wine were always iced. Mortimer Collins THE MAID OF THE MEERSCHAUM NUDE nymph, when from Neuberg's I led her In velvet enshrined... | |
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