 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 416 pages
...and lose my popularity with my fortune. . Then Woodstock and Bony may .both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking cigars and drinking grog,...Tweed.' But I find my eyes moistening, and that will npt do. I will not yield without a fight for it. It is odd, when I set myself to work doggedly, as... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 418 pages
...elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking cigars and drinking grog,...methinks to go abroad, ' And lay my bones far from die Tweed' But I find my eyes moistening, and that will not do. I will not yield without a fight for... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 790 pages
...elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the papermaker, and I may take to smoking cigars and drinking grog, or turn devotee, and 474 LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. intoxicate the brain another way. In prospect of absolute ruin, I wonder... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 pages
...elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then " Woodstock" and Bony may go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking cigars and drinking grog,...And lay my bones far from the Tweed.' But I find my eye moistening, and that will not do." At this time Scott's difficulties were made the subject of frequent... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 436 pages
...elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking cigars and drinking grog,...methinks, to go abroad, ' And lay my bones far from the Tu-ced.' But I find my eyes moistening, and that will not do. I will not yield without a fight for... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 566 pages
...break my magic wand in the fall from this elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune ! . . . . But I find my eyes moistening, and that will not do ; I will not yield without a fight for it." " Well, exertion, exertion. O invention, rouse thyself ! May man be kind ! may God be propitious !... | |
 | 1857 - 678 pages
...would have taken them from me, if misfortune had spared them. My poor people, whom I loved so well!" "I would like, methinks, to go abroad, and • lay my bones far from the Tweed.' •' " Poor Mr. Poole, the harper, sent to offer me £500 — probably his all. There is much good... | |
 | Thurlow Weed - Europe - 1866 - 830 pages
...should break my magic wand in the fall from this elephant and lose my popularity with my fortune ! ***** But I find my eyes moistening, and that will not do. I will not yield without a fight for it. When I set myself to work doggedly, as Dr. Johnson would have said, I am just the same man I ever was."... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1868 - 608 pages
...elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking cigars and drinking grog,...But I find my eyes moistening, and that will not do. It is odd, when I set myself to work doggedly, as Dr. Johnson would say, I am exactly the same man... | |
 | American periodicals - 1868 - 850 pages
...elephant, and lose my popularity with my fortune. Then Woodstock and Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking cigars and drinking grog,...But I find my eyes moistening, and that will not do. It is odd, when I set myself to work Jo/jf/alli/, as Dr. Johnson would say, I am exactly the same man... | |
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Bony may both go to the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking cigars and drinking grog, or turn devotee, and intoxicate the brain another way. 
