Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin, That never has known the Barber's shear All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin, — Wait till you come to Forty Year. The Cornhill Magazine - Page 623edited by - 1908Full view - About this book
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...began : — Ho ! pretty page, with dimpled chin, That never has known the barber's shear, All your aim is woman to win. This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you've come to forty year ! Curly gold locks cover foolish brains, Billing and cooing is all your cheer,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - English fiction - 1853 - 324 pages
...TWO SCORE. Ho ! pretty page, with dimpled chin, That never has known the barber's shear, All your aim is woman to win. This is the way that boys begin. "Wait till you've come to forty year! Curly gold locks cover foolish brains, Billing and cooing is all your cheer,... | |
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...TWO SCORE. Ho ! pretty page, with dimpled chin, That never has known the barber's shear, All your aim is woman to win. This is the way that boys begin. . Wait till you've come to forty yearl Curly gold locks cover foolish brains, Billing and cooing is all your cheer,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 544 pages
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...minute Like outcast spirits who wait And see through Heaven's gate Angels within it. THE AGE OF WISDOM. Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin, That never...boys begin, — Wait till you come to Forty Year. Curly gold locks cover foolish brains, Billing and cooing is all your cheer ; Sighing and singing of... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 260 pages
...minute Like outcast spirits who wait And. see through Heaven's gate Angels within it. THE AGE OF WISDOM. Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin, That never...boys begin, — Wait till you come to Forty Year. Curly gold locks cover foolish brains, Billing and cooing is all your cheer ; Sighing and singing of... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 148 pages
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| James Ewing Ritchie - Lifestyles - 1857 - 256 pages
...brandy- and- water and smoke cigars; but they have yet to cut their wisdom-teeth. As Thackeray says, " Pretty page with the dimpled chin, That never has...boys begin, — Wait till you come to forty year.' ' Come here in the summer-time, and the attendance is then numerous ; and of a Sunday evening, on the... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...THACKERAY. Ho ! pretty page with dimpled chin, That never has known the barber's shear, All your aim is woman to win. This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you've come to forty year ! Curly gold locks cover foolish brains, Billing and cooing is all your cheer,... | |
| James Ewing Ritchie - Politicians - 1861 - 314 pages
...to others more congenial with human weakness and the claims of actual life. Thackeray sings : — " Ho ! pretty page with the dimpled chin That never...boys begin, — Wait till you come to forty year." By the light of years one reads things differently to what one does in one's earlier days ; or if that... | |
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