 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 ページ
...for arms and stores, which was pointed out to him as he went abroad during his mental disease : — " Behold a proof of Irish sense : Here Irish wit is seen : When nothing's left that's worth defence, They build a magazine ! " * Besides these famous books of Scott's and Johnson's, there is a copious... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 ページ
...for arms and stores, which was pointed out to him as he went abroad during his mental disease : — " Behold a proof of Irish sense : Here Irish wit is seen : When nothing's left that's worth defence, They build a magazine ! " * Besides these famous books of Scott's and Johnson's, there is a copious... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1870 - 652 ページ
...ear Chink but Wood's halfpence, and he'll hear. ON THE NEW MAGAZINE FOR ARMS AND POWDER IN DUBLIN. Behold ! a proof of Irish sense ! Here Irish wit is...nothing's left, that's worth defence, We build a magazine. During the lunacy of his latter years, Swift had lucid intervals, and wns then taken out "for a drive.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1870 - 360 ページ
...for arms and stores, which was pointed out to him as he went abroad during his mental disease: — Behold a proof of Irish sense : Here Irish wit is seen ; When notiiing's left that's worth defence, They build a magazine 1 8 Besides these famous books of Scott's... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 ページ
...for arms and stores, which was pointed out to him as he went abroad during his mental disease : — " Behold a proof of Irish sense : Here Irish wit is seen : When nothing's left that's worth defence, They build a magazine ! " f Besides these famous books of Scott's and Johnson's, there is a copious... | |
 | Charles Stokes Carey - 1872 - 314 ページ
...hero to the bard submit, Who hurls, unmatch'd, the thunderbolts of wit. ON A MAGAZINE BUILT IN DUBLIN. BEHOLD a proof of Irish sense ; Here Irish wit is seen ; When nothing's left that's worth defence They build a magazine. — Srvift. GEORGE II. IN most things I did as my father had done, I was false... | |
 | 1872 - 246 ページ
...tablets—memory, put down that." He then produced the following lines, being the last he ever wrote : Behold! a proof of Irish sense ! Here Irish wit is seen, When nothing's left for our defence; We build a magazine. The Dean then put up his pocket-book, laughing heartily at the... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 748 ページ
...ear Chink but Wood's halfpence, and he'll hear. ON THE NEW MAGAZINE FOR ASMS AND POWDER IN DUBLIN. Behold! a proof of Irish sense! Here Irish wit is seen ! When nothing's left, that's worth defence, During the lunacy of his latter years, Swift had lucid intervals, and was then taken out fur a drive.... | |
 | English epigrams - 1878 - 464 ページ
...produce a decent Watch, For Calvinists despise good works. Charles Shirley Brooks. DCXI. ON IRISH SENSE. Behold ! a proof of Irish sense ; Here Irish wit is seen ! When nothing 's left that 's worth defence, We build a magazine. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). [This was the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 ページ
...for arms and stores, which was pointed out to him as be went abroad during his mental disease : — " Behold a proof of Irish sense : Here Irish wit is seen : When nothing's left that's worth defence. They build a magazine ! " t Besides these famous books of Scott's and Johnson's, there is a copious... | |
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