| James Smith, Horace Smith - 1812 - 162 páginas
...was glitter and fire in each eye, For two living coals were the symbols ; His teeth were calcin'd, and his tongue was so dry, It rattled against them as though you should try To play the piano in thimbles. From his nostrils a lava sulphureous flows, Which scorches wherever it lingers, A snivelling... | |
| James Smith, Horace Smith - 1813 - 472 páginas
...was glitter and fire in each eye, For two living coals were the symbols ; His teeth were calcined, and his tongue was so dry, It rattled against them as though you should try To play the piano in thimbles. From his nostrils a lava sulphureous flows, Which scorches wherever it lingers, A snivelling... | |
| 1813 - 670 páginas
...the copper colt's belly.'—p. 71. For two living coals were the symbols ; His teeth were calcin'd, and his tongue was so dry, It rattled against them as though you should try ' Oh ! then there was glitter and fire in each eye, To play the piano in thimbles.'—p. 72. His whip... | |
| James Smith - 1813 - 152 páginas
...there was glitter and fire in each eye, For two living coals were the symbols; His teeth were calcined, and his tongue was so dry, It rattled against them as though- you should tryTo play the piano in thimbles. From his nostrils a lava sulphureous flows, Which scorches wherever... | |
| 1826 - 952 páginas
...fortnight from the time I parted wi' Maister Glen, the Lauder carrier, limping Jamie, brought his callaut to our shop-door in his hand. He was a tall slender laddie, some fourteen year auld, and sair grown away frae his claes. There was something genty and delicate-like about him,... | |
| 1824 - 770 páginas
...left eye was a pitch, To keep it from burning the manger. • • * " » • His teeth were calcined, and his tongue was so dry, It rattled against them, as though yon should try To play the piano with thimbles." — A touch, by the way, quite Sliakspearean ; as,... | |
| 1824 - 822 páginas
...horse's left eye was a patch, To keep it from burning the manger. * * » * » His teeth were calcined, and his tongue was so dry, It rattled against them, as though you should try To play the piano with thimbles."— A touch, by the way, quite Shakspearean ; as, where the bard says,— " The poor... | |
| 1826 - 1004 páginas
...chilly, and I freeze with horror. tilchard Third. IN the course of a fortnight from the time I parted wi' Maister Glen, the Lauder carrier, limping Jamie, brought...hand. He was a tall slender laddie, some fourteen year auld, and sair grown away frae his claes. There was something genty and delicate-like about him,... | |
| Mansie Wauch - 1828 - 242 páginas
...in thimbles. . < Rtjected Addresses. For two living cools were the symbols; His teeth were calcined, and his tongue was so dry, It rattled against them as though you should try ( IN the course of a fortnight from the time I parted with Maister Glen, the Lauder carrier,, limping... | |
| 1825 - 500 páginas
...horse's left eye was a patch, To keep it from burning the manger. * * * * * * His teeth were calcined, and his tongue was so dry, It rattled against them, as though you should try To play the piano with thimbles." — A touch, by the way, quite Shakspearean ; as, where the bard says — — " The... | |
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