 | 1808 - 532 pages
...us take what WE get and be thankful. What right have we poor devils to be nice ? We are well off to have got so much from a man of this Lord's station,...bless the giver, nor look the gift horse in the mouth. ART. III. Some Account of the public Life, and a Selection from the unpublished Writings of the Earl... | |
 | 1811 - 450 pages
...us take what we get and be thankfui. What right have we poor devils to be nice ? We arc well off to have got so much from a man of this Lord's station,...Again, we say, let us be thankful ; and, with honest Sancho,bid God bless the giver, nor look the gift horse in the mouth. There is nothing more universally... | |
 | 1814 - 558 pages
...us take what we get and be thankful. What right have we poor devils to be nice ? We are well off to have got so much from a man of this lord's station, who does not live in a garret, but " baa the sway" of Newstead Abbey. Again, we say, let us be thankful ; and, with honest Sancho, bid... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...us take what we get and be thankful. What right have we poor devils to be nice ? We are well off to have got so much from a man of this lord's station,...bless the giver, nor look the gift horse in the mouth. VOL. HI. New Stries. 4(4 Qutn/i Smyrnai Posthomericum Libri [We understand that an A merican gentleman,... | |
 | 1814 - 556 pages
...take what we get and be thankful. . What right have we poor devils to be nice ? We are well off to have got so much from a man of this lord's station,...God bless the giver, nor look the gift horse in the month. VOL. III. New Serifs. GO 474 Quint i Smynwi Posthomericiun Libri XIV. [We understand that an... | |
 | 1814 - 564 pages
...us take what we get and be thankful. What right have we poor devils to be nice ? We are well off to have got so much from a man of this lord's station,...Again, we say, let us be thankful ; and, with honest Sanclio, bid God bleis the giver, HOT look the gift horse in the mouth. Quinti Smyrnai Poslhomericum... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1820 - 16 pages
...take what we get, and be thankful. What right have we, poor devils, to be nice ? We are well off to have got so much from a man of this Lord's station,...the giver, nor look the gift horse in the mouth." G. Taylor, Printer, 5, Lamb's Conduit Passage. i r ... | |
 | 1820 - 562 pages
...take what we get and be thankful. What right have we poor devils to be nice ? We are all well off to have got so much from a man of this Lord's station,...bless the giver, nor look the gift horse in the mouth. [The young Lord appears to have anticipated this castigation, by the following stanzas — which may,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 404 pages
...us take what we get and be thankful. What right have we poor devils to be nice ? We are well off to have got so much from a man of this Lord's station...Again , we say, let us be thankful ; and , with honest Saucho, bid God bless the giver , nor look the gift horse in the mouth. END OF HOCKS OF IDLENESS. FUGITIVE... | |
 | 1821 - 970 pages
...the laudatory epithets of a critique, concluding with this very witty and complimentary conceit, " again we say, let us be thankful; and, with honest...the giver, nor look the gift horse in the mouth." In a previous part of that choice and very curious article, after having most obligingly assured his... | |
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... that he should again condescend to become an author. Therefore, let us take what we get, and be thankful. What right have we poor devils to be nice ? We are well off to have got so much from a man of this lord's station, who does not live in a garret,... 
