 | 1808 - 674 ページ
...nothing. He took care however in the course of one ol h&r^ progresses to j.iesent to her this petition. I was promised on a time, To have reason for my rhyme j From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme r.or reason. This seasonable remonstrance succeeded... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 ページ
...Majesty, in the manner of a petition, in which he reminded her of her order by the following lines: ' I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme : -^ From that time, unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.' This produced the intended... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 ページ
...Majesty, in the manner of a petition, in which he reminded her of her order by the following lines : ' I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme : From that time, unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.' This produced the intended effect... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 ページ
...was to be given for a song, as well as that of Spenser's procuring it at last by the doggrel verses, I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme, &c. Yet there are passages in the Fairy Queen which unequivocally refer to Burleigh with severity.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 ページ
...so deadly, as that already his life had lost use of the misunable and almost sensible part. Sidney. I was promised on a time, To have reason for my rhyme : From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor return. Spenser. Reatan is the director... | |
 | 1833 - 270 ページ
...Treasurer withholding the grant, until he was shamed into paying it by the ridiculous memorial, — I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme, But from that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason, — is more than questionable.... | |
 | Costard Sly (pseud.) - 1834 - 294 ページ
...crew. " Til lead a very quiet life, — Like any MONK I'll be — And all the woiid shall then admire " And the little song goes on to say ' That your majesty...reason for my rhyme." BARN.WELL. Mr. Waring, let me exsuffolate in your ear, — GAULTIMAN. Oh, confound your exsuffolating. I tell you what it is now,... | |
 | Great Britain. [Appendix. - Miscellaneous.] - 1836 - 416 ページ
...his noble patron.3 present a petition to her majesty, which was framed in the following form : — " I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme : From that time, unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason." 1 Upton. 3 The instructions given... | |
 | John Bellenden Ker - 1840 - 330 ページ
...is as number or sense! No hoore, sounds nor; rije so'n, reason; ende, and; nie hie ter, neither. ' I was promised, on a time, ' To have REASON for my RHYME ; ' But from that time unto this season * I had NEITHER RHYME NOR REASON." SpenSCr. ' The guiltiness... | |
 | Irishman - 1840 - 238 ページ
...recompense, he came to a determination to remind the queen of her promise, which he did by these lines: " I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time, unto this season, I received not rhyme nor reason." The queen, who thus learned the... | |
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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme ; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason. 
