 There with the scraps of songs, and laugh, and tale, He lightens annual toil, while merry ale Goes round, and glads some old man's heart to praise The threadbare customs of his early days : How the high bowl was in the middle set At breakfast time, when...  The chalice of Carden - Página 298por Thomas Wright - 1889 - 314 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 páginas
...days : How the high bowl was in the middle set At breakfast time, when clippers yearly met, Fill'd full of furmety, where dainty swum The streaking sugar and the spotting plum. The maids could never to the table bring The bowl, without one rising from the ring To lend a hand ; who,... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 páginas
...early days ; How the high bowl was in the middle set, At breakfast-time when shearers yearly met, FilPd full of furmety, where dainty swum The streaking sugar and the spotting plum : The large stone- pitcher in its homely trim, And clouded pint-horn with its copper rim, Were there ; from... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 páginas
...days : How the high bowl was in the middle set At breakfast-time, when clippers yearly met, Fill'd full of furmety, where dainty swum The streaking sugar and the spotting plum. The maids could never to the table bring The bowl, without one rising from the ring To lend a hand ; who,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 páginas
...days : How the high howl was in the middle set At hreakfast-time, when clippers yearly met, Fill'd full of furmety, where dainty swum The streaking sugar and the spotting plum. The maids could never to the tahle hring The howl, without one rising from the ring To lend a hand : who,... | |
 | Anne Elizabeth Baker - 1854 - 478 páginas
...says,— . . . The high bowl was in the middle set, At breakfast time, when clippers yearly met, Fill'd full of furmety, where dainty swum The streaking sugar, and the spotting plum. And, lamenting the disuse and extinction of old rural customs, he exclaims— Thus ale, and song, and... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 338 páginas
...says : — The high bowl was in the middle set, At breakfast time, when clippers yearly met, Fill'd full of furmety, where dainty swum The streaking sugar, and the spotting plum. And, lamenting the disuse and extinction of old rural customs, he exclaims : — Thus ale, and song,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 394 páginas
...festival, ' The high bowl was in the middle set At breakfast-time, when clippers yearly met, Fill'd full of furmety, where dainty swum The streaking sugar and the spotting plum.' Clare, who wrote these lines, adds : ' But the old beechen bowl, that once supplied The feast of furmety,... | |
 | Country life - 1873 - 160 páginas
...days ; How the high bowl was in the middle set, At breakfast-time when shearers yearly met, Fill'd full of furmety, where dainty swum The streaking sugar and the spotting plum : The large stone-pitcher in its homely trim, And clouded pint-horn with its copper rim, Were there ; from... | |
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