 | Books - 1826 - 570 pages
...Your love I did allow ; But then, you know, you stand upon Another footing now !" O, Nelly Gray ! O, Nelly Gray ! For all your jeering speeches, At duty's...you cannot wear your shoes Upon your feats of arms !" " O, false and fickle Nelly Gray ! I know why you refuse : — Though I've no feet — some other... | |
 | English literature - 1827 - 334 pages
...Your love I did allow, But then, you know, you stand upon Another footing now !" " Oh, Nelly Gray ! O, Nelly Gray ! For all your jeering speeches, At duty's...you cannot wear your shoes Upon your feats of arms !" " O, false and fickle Nelly Gray! I know why you refuse : — Though I've no feet — some other... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Nelly Gray! For all your jeering speeches, At duty's call I left my legs In Badajos's breachex!" " Why, then," said she, " you've lost the feet Of legs...you cannot wear your shoes Upon your feats of arms!" "Oh, false and fickle Nelly Gray: I know why you refuse: (man Though I've no feet — some other Is... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1847 - 314 pages
...love I did allow, But then, you know, you stand upon Another footing now ! " " Oh, Nelly Gray ! Oh, Nelly Gray ! For all your jeering speeches, At duty's...you cannot wear your shoes Upon your feats of arms ! " " Oh, false and fickle Nelly Gray ! I know why you refuse :— Though I Ve no feet—some other... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 308 pages
...speeches, At duty's call, I left my legs In Badajos's breaches ! " " Why, then," said she, " you 've lost the feet Of legs in war's alarms, And now you cannot wear your shoes Upon your feats of arms ! " " Oh, false and fickle Nelly Gray ! I know why you refuse :— Though I 've no feet—some other... | |
 | Biography - 1852 - 318 pages
...oh, Nelly Gray ! For all your jeering speeches, At duty's call I left my legs In Badajos's breaches I "Why, then," said she, "you've lost the feet Of legs...you cannot wear your shoes Upon your feats of arms 1 " " Oh, false and fickle Nelly Gray ! I know why you refuse : — Though I've no feet, some other... | |
 | Songs - 1853 - 456 pages
...Nelly Gray \ O, Nelly Gray 1 For all your jeering speeches, At duty's call, I left my legs In Badajoz's breaches.' ' Why then, said she, ' you've lost the...you cannot wear your shoes Upon your feats of arms '.' For Ben he was a soldier bold, &c. ' O, false and fickle Nelly Gray I To yon, a long farewell ;... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 pages
...speeches, At duty's call, I left my legs, In Badajos's breaches ! " " Why then," said she, "you 've lost the feet Of legs in war's alarms, And now you cannot wear your shoes Upon your feats of arms ! " " O, false and fickle Nelly Gray ! I know why you refuse : — Though I 've no feet — some other... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...love I did allow, But then, you know, you stand upon Another footing now ! " " Oh, Nelly Gray ! Oh, Nelly Gray ! For all your jeering speeches, At duty's...you cannot wear your shoes Upon your feats of arms ! " " Oh, false and fickle Nelly Gray ! I know why you refuse : — ' Though I've no feet — some... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...Nslly Gray ! For all your jeering speeches, At duty's call I left my legs In Badajos's breaches I ' " Why, then," said she, "you've lost the feet Of legs...you cannot wear your shoes Upon your feats of arms ! " " Oh, false and fickle Nelly Gray ! I know why you refuse : — Though I've no feet, some other... | |
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you've lost the feet Of legs in war's alarms, And now you cannot wear your shoes Upon your feats of arms!" "O, false and fickle Nelly Gray; I know why you refuse: Though I've no feet — some other man Is standing in my shoes! "I wish I ne'er had seen... 
