 I'd my ermine gown sell, I wish I were a mile hence! It's easy to bid one rack one's brain— I'm sure my poor head aches again, I've scratched it so, and all in vain. Oh for a trap, a trap, a trap!" Just as he said this what should hap At the chamber...  Medical Science - Page 2951887Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...this, the mayor anil corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sate in counsel — At length the mayor broke silence: " For a guilder...sell; I wish I were a mile hence! It's easy to bid one nick one's hrain — I'm sure my poor head aches again, I've scratched it so, and all in vain.... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...packing !" At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. IV. An hour they sate in council, At length the Mayor broke silence : "..." I wish I were a mile hence ! '' It's easy to bid one rack one's brain — " I'm sure my poor head aches again " Fve scratched it so, and all in vain... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...packing !" At this the mayor and corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sate in council, At length the Mayor broke silence : "For...sell ; I wish I were a mile hence ! It's easy to bid one rack one's brain — I'm sure my poor head aches again I've scratched it so, and all in vain. Oh... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...packing ! " At this the mayor and corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sate in council ; At length the mayor broke silence : "...sell ; I wish I were a mile hence ! It's easy to bid one rack one's brain — I'm sure my poor head aches again, I've scratched it so, and all in vain.... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 pages
...fate, we'll send you packing !' At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sat in council, At length the Mayor broke...sell ; I wish I were a mile hence ! It's easy to bid one rack one's brain — I'm sure my poor head aches again, I've scratched it so, and all in vain.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...fate, we'll send you packing I" At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sat in council ; At length the Mayor..." I wish I were a mile hence ! " It's easy to bid one rack one's brain — " I'm sure my poor head aches again, " I've scratched it so, and all in vain.... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...packing ! '' At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. Iv. An hour they sate in council, At length the Mayor broke silence : "...sell ; I wish I were a mile hence ! It's easy to bid one rack one's brain — I'm sure my poor head aches again I've scratched it so, and all in vain. Oh... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...fate, we'll send you packing !" At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sat in council ; At length the Mayor broke silence : " For a guilder Pd my ermine gown sell ; " I wish I were a mile hence I " It's easy to bid one rack one's brain —... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1863 - 390 pages
...fate, we 'll send you packing ! ' At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sat in council, At length the Mayor broke silence : ' For a guilder I 'd my ermine gown sell ; I wish I were a mile hence ! I 'm sure my poor head aches again, I 've scratched... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1864 - 210 pages
...league onward, Bode the six hundred ; — Volleyed and thundered." — Tennyson. 18. " An hour they sate in council, At length the Mayor broke silence : •For...I'd my ermine gown sell ; I wish I were a mile hence !' " — Browning. 19. " Bird of the wilderness, Blithesome and cumberless ; Emblem of happiness, Blest... | |
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