 | 1812 - 532 pages
...arid tell tile lie they give ; Jews from St Mary Axe^ for jobs so wary, That for old clothes they'd even axe St Mary ; And bucks with pockets empty as...their pate, Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait. ' p. 118 — 19. We shall conclude with the episode of the loss and recovery of Pat Jennings's hat... | |
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - 1813 - 472 pages
...lie, and tell the lie they give ; Jews from St Mary Axe, for jobs so wary, That for old clothes they'd even axe St Mary ; And bucks with pockets empty as...elsewhere, chance can joy bestow, Where scowling Fortune seem'd to threaten woe. John Richard William Alexander Dwyer Was footman to Justinian Stubbs Esquire... | |
 | 1839 - 384 pages
...and tell the lie they give ; Jews from St. Mary Axe, for jobs so wary, That for old clothes they'd even Axe St. Mary ; And bucks, with pockets empty...carouse With tippling tipstaves in a lock-up house. And so the crowd of multifarious kind In vain attempt to fill a vacant mind ; In heavy dullness with... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 622 pages
...their talk ! Big-worded bullies, who by quarrels live, Who give the lie, and tell the lie they give ; And bucks with pockets empty as their pate, Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait." — pp. 118, 119. We shall conclude with the episode of the loss and recovery of Pat Jennings's hat... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 754 pages
...their talk! Big-worded bullies, who by quarrels live, Who give the lie, and tell the lie they give ; And bucks with pockets empty as their pate, Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait.' — pp. 118, 119. We shall conclude with the episode of the loss and recovery of Pat Jennings's hat—which,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 pages
...Pat was the urchin's name, a red-hair'd youth, Fonder of purl and skittle grounds than truth. Backs with pockets empty as their pate, Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait. The Splendid Shilling (see it in the present volume) is an excellent parody of the style of Milton.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 pages
...Pat was the urchin's name, a red-hair'd youth, Fonder of purl and skittle grounds than truth, Backs with pockets empty as their pate, Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait. The Splendid Shilling (see it in the present volume) is an excellent parody of the style of Milton.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...Pat was the urchin's name, a red-hair'd youth, Fonder of purl and skittle grounds than truth, Backs with pockets empty as their pate, Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait. The Splendid Shilling (see it in the present volume) is an excellent parody of the style of Milton.... | |
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - 1851 - 272 pages
...bullies, who by quarrels live — Who give the lie, and tell the lie they give ; Jews from St. Mary Axe,1 for jobs so wary, That for old clothes they 'd even...elsewhere, Chance can joy bestow, Where scowling Fortune seem'd to threaten woe. John Richard William Alexander Dwyer 1 [A street and parish in Lime Street... | |
 | James Smith - 1855 - 152 pages
...and tell the lie they give ; Jews from St. Mary Axe, for jobs so wary, That for old clothes they'd even axe St. Mary ; And bucks with pockets empty as...elsewhere, chance can joy bestow, Where scowling Fortune seem'd to threaten woe. John Richard William Alexander Dwyer Was footman to Justinian Stubbs, Esquire... | |
| |
And bucks with pockets empty as their pate, Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait, Who oft, when we our house lock up, carouse With tippling tipstaves in a lock-up house. 
