 | Roses - Gift books - 1867 - 172 pages
...the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The schoolboy whips his taxed top —...his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent. — and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of a hundred pounds for the privilege... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The schoolboy whips his taxed top ; the...his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1869 - 926 pages
...on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribbons of the bride ; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The school-boy whips his taxed top ;...that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back on his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary who... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1869 - 486 pages
...on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribbons of the bride ; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The school-boy whips his taxed top ;...that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back on his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary who... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - History - 1927 - 200 pages
...nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride. At bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The dying Englishman pouring his medicine, which has...spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who... | |
 | George Alexander Johnston - Citizenship - 1928 - 316 pages
...the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride—at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay : The schoolboy whips his taxed top ;...dying Englishman pouring his medicine, which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - Theology - 1882 - 584 pages
...the budgets of 1860 and the following years, we can sympathise with the complaint of Sydney Smith. " The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless...medicine which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon which has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself upon his chintz bed, which, has paid twenty-two per... | |
 | William Cunningham - Business & Economics - 1968 - 1098 pages
...the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay : — The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed the pres- horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying taxation, Englishman pouring... | |
 | English periodicals - 1924 - 970 pages
...the brass nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The schoolboy whips his taxed top —...dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed. which... | |
 | Alvin Rabushka - Business & Economics - 1985 - 260 pages
...on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride: at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the...dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which... | |
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The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid... 
