 | English literature - 1805 - 590 pages
...To stump about your farm and stable 5 Your years have run to a great length, I wish you joy, though, of your strength." " Hold,'' says the farmer, "not...great wonder, Death replies; However, you still keep youreyes-; And sure, to see-one's loves and friends, For legs and arms would make amends." " Perhaps,"... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...To stump about your fan.! and stable; Your years have run to a great length, I wish you joy, though, of your strength." " Hold," says the farmer, "not so fast, I have been lame this four years past." "And no great wonder," Death replies; " However, you still keep your eyes; And... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...to a great length : I wish you joy, though, of your strength!"— u Hold," says the farmer, " not $o fast ! . I have been lame these four years past."...sure, to see one's loves and friends For legs and arms must make amends." " Perhaps," says Dodson, " so it might, But latterly I've lost my sight !" " This... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...stump about your farm and stable : " Your years have run to a great length- : " I wish you joy, though, of your strength !" — " Hold," says the farmer,...to see one's loves and friends " For legs and arms must make amends," " Perhaps," says Dobson, " so it might, " But latterly I've lost my sight !" " This... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...best,i I seldom am a welcome guest > But don't be captious, friend, at least : V I little thought you'd still be able To stump about your farm and stable...and friends, For legs and arms would make amends." •1ij " Perhaps," says Dodson, " so it might, .,.;• But latterly I've lost my sight." .;,' " This... | |
 | One hundred fables, James Plumptre - 1825 - 306 pages
...seldom am a welcome guest ; ' But don't be captious, friend, at least. — ' I little thought you'd still be able ' To stump about your farm and stable...these four years past.' ' And no great wonder,' Death reph'es, ' However you still keep your eyes, ' And, sure, to see one's loves and friends ' For legs... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...To stump about your farm and stable: Your years have run to a great length: I wish you joy, though, of your strength." " Hold !" says the farmer, " not...Death replies : " However, you still keep your eyes j And sure, to see one's loves and friends, For legs and arms would make amends." " Perhaps," says... | |
 | John Barber - Elocution - 1828 - 310 pages
...you'd still be able To stump about your farm and stable ; Your years have run to a great length; v I wish you joy, tho' of your strength! Hold, says the farmer, not so fast! I have been lame these three years past. And no great wonder, Death replies : However, you still keep your eyes; And sure... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1831 - 294 pages
...stump about your farm and stable : Your years have run to a great length : . I wish you joy, though, of your strength." " Hold !" says the farmer, " not...wonder," Death replies : " However, you still keep vour eyes ; And sure, to see one's loves and friends, For legs and arms would make amends." " Perhaps,"... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 292 pages
...To stump about your farm and stable : Your years have run to a great length: I wish you joy, though, of your strength." "Hold !" says the farmer, "not...replies : " However, you still keep your eyes ; And surs, to see one's loves and friends. For legs and arms would make amends." " Perhaps," says Dobson,... | |
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that at the best, I seldom am a welcome guest; But don't be captious, friend, at least; I little thought you'd still be able To stump about your farm and stable : Your years have run to a great length ; I wish you joy, though, of your strength !" "Hold!"... 
