 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1826 - 330 pages
...So, manners decent and polite, The same we practis'd at first sight, Most save it from declension. The man who hails you Tom — or Jack, And proves...thumping on your back His sense of your great merit, la euch a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon, or to bear it. Some... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pages
...gilding. The man that hails you Tom or Jack And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or tn bear it. AB similarity of mind, • .. • ' . Or something not to be defin'd. First fixes our attention... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 326 pages
...The same we practis'd at first sight, Must save it from declension. The man who hails yon Tom—or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend, ihat one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon, or to bear it. Some friends make this... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...gilding. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. As similarity of mind, Or something not to be defin'd, First fixes our attention ; So manners decent... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...beginning to its close, is a perplexing enigma. To such a letter, the lines of Cowper may be applied, " One had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it." It may be added, that the man who can write better, \ rs thus doing injustice to himself. An improper... | |
 | William Cowper - 1831 - 412 pages
...So manners, decent and polite, The same we practised at first sight, Must save it from declension. The man who hails you Tom — or Jack, And proves...very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. Some friends make this their prudent plan — " Say little, and hear all you can;" Safe policy, but... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...gilding. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it. As similarity of mind, Or something not to be defined, First fixes our attention ; So manners decent... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...gilding* The man that hails you— Tom, or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or ta bear it. As similarity of mind, Or something not to be detin'd, First fixes our attention. So manners... | |
 | William Cowper - 1831 - 410 pages
...So manners, decent and polite, The same we practised at first sight, Must save it from declension. The man who hails you Tom — or Jack, And proves...very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. MINOR POEMS. So barren sands imbibe the shower, But render neither fruit nor flower, Unpleasant and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...gilding. f The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. A similarity of mind, Or something not to be defined, First fixes our attention ; So manners decent... | |
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The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. 
