 His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses : It slipped from politics to puns : It passed from Mahomet to Moses : Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Stran 251888Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1829 - 606 strani
...with marvelous originality and variety, having, as he said, ' an insight into most every thing.' — " His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses : It slipped from politics to puns, It passed from Mahomet to Moses." And if ever there was any little matter... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1844 - 296 strani
...And twenty curious scraps of knowledge ; — If he departed as he came, With no new light on love or liquor, — Good sooth, the traveller was to blame,...which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses : It slipped from politics to puns : It passed from Mahomet to Moses : Beginning with the laws which keep... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1844 - 296 strani
...And twenty curious scraps of knowledge ;— If he departed as he came, With no new light on love or liquor,^ Good sooth, the traveller was to blame, And not the Vicarage, or the Yicar. His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses : It slipped from... | |
 | 1874 - 898 strani
...cannot leave you my direction ! And with what fluency and whimsicality of expression he describes his Vicar ! — His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses ; It slipped from politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses : Beginning with... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 strani
...And twenty curious scraps of knowledge; — If he departed as he came, With no new light on love or liquor,— Good sooth, the traveller was to blame,...which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses : It slipp'd from polities to puns : It pass'd from Mahomet to Moses : .Ml Beginning with the laws which... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 strani
...And twenty curious scraps of knowledge ; — If he departed as he came, With no new light on love or liquor, — Good sooth, the traveller was to blame,...stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses : 440 441 Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - 1848 - 320 strani
...learned, valiant, And in dimension, and the shape of nature, Gracious. Twelfth. Night. 11. His talk is like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses ; He slips from politics to puns, Passes from Mahomet to Moses ; Beginning with the laws which keep... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 strani
...knowledge; If he departed as he came, With no new light on love or liquor, Good sooth the traveler was to blame, And not the Vicarage or the Vicar. His...which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses; It slipped from politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning wiih the laws which keep... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 strani
...friend, And twenty curious scraps of knowledge ; If he departed as he came, With no new light on love or liquor, Good sooth the traveller was to blame, And...which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses ; It supped from politics to puns ; It passed from Mahomet to Moses ; Beginning with the laws which keep... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1852 - 324 strani
...And twenty curious scraps of knowledge ; — If he departed as he came, With no new light on love or liquor, — Good sooth, the traveller was to blame,...was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses : It slipped from politics to puns : It passed from Mahomet to Moses : Beginning with... | |
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