Why should Honesty fly to some safer retreat, From attorneys and barges, od rot 'em ? For the lawyers are just at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom. The Cornhill Magazine - Page 42edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
| 1843 - 530 pages
...Honesty fly to some. safer retreat, From attorneys and barges, od rot 'em ? For the lawyers are just at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom.' " He had a proper, unaffected, philosophical respect for rank, but he had formed too true and precise... | |
| Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 pages
...Honesty fly to some safer retreat, From attorneys and barges, od rot 'em ? For the lawyers are just at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom.' " He had a keen relish for life, but he spoke calmly and indifferently about dying — as in the verses... | |
| Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 pages
...Honesty fly to some safer retreat, From attorneys and barges, od rot 'em ? For the lawyers axe just at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom.' " He had a keen relish for life, but he spoke calmly and indifferently about dying — as in the verses... | |
| William Keddie - 1854 - 400 pages
...Honesty fly to some safer retreat, From attorneys and barges, od rot 'em ? For the lawyers are just at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom.' " BISHOP HOUGH. Doctor Hough, bishop of Worcester, who was as remarkable for the evenness of his temper... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 494 pages
...Honesty fly to some safer retreat, From attorneys and barges, *od rot 'em ? For the lawyers are just at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom.'" He had a proper, unaffected, philosophical respect for rank j but he had formed too true and precise... | |
| Wit - 1860 - 288 pages
...honesty fly from the great retreat Of the lawyers and barges, 'Od rot 'em,' When the lawyers are just at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom ?" A conceited fellow, in introducing his friend into company, said, " Gentlemen, I assure you he is... | |
| Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 pages
...honesty seek any safer retreat, From the lawyers, or barges, odd rot 'em ? For the lawyers are just at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom. SIR GEOEGE ROSE. INSCRIPTION FOR INNER-TEMPLE OATE. As by the Templars' hold yon go, The Horse and... | |
| Books - 1868 - 220 pages
...Honesty fly to some safer retreat, From attorneys and barges, od rot 'em ? For the lawyers are /MS* at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom."' CONTEMPORARY COPYRIGHTS. THE late Mr. Tegg, the publisher in Cheapside, gave the following list of... | |
| Epigrams - 1868 - 144 pages
...Honesty fly to some safer retreat, From attorneys and barges, od rot 'em ? For the lawyers sue just at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom." A FLUENT TALKER. Lysander talks extremely well; On any subject let him dwell, His tropes and figures... | |
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