 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...reigns of her successor*. AM old song made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, •And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate; Like an old courtier of the queen's, And the... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 438 pages
...JOHN BULL. JOHN BULL. An old song, made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gcntleirien who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate. , With an old study fill'd full of learned old books,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 366 pages
...JOHN BULL. JOHN BULL. An old song, made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate. With an old study ffll'd full of learned old books,... | |
 | Washington Irving - England - 1822 - 490 pages
...friendly hand to record his struggle. JOHN BULL. JOHN BULL. An old song, made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman who bad a great estate. That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate. With an old study HUM full of learned old books,... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1822 - 472 pages
...OLD AND YOUNG COURTIER. An old song made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate ; Like an old courtier of the queen's, And the queen's... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English literature - 1826 - 458 pages
...excellent old ballad *— s " The Old and Young Courtier." • A worshipful country gentleman who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate: With an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate i He every quarter paid his old servants their wages,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...JOHN BULL. JOHN BULL. An old song, made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate. With an old study fill'd full of learned old books,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 194 pages
...struggle. JOHN BULL. An old song , made by an aged old pate. Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate , And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate. With an old study fill'd full of learned old books... | |
 | English periodicals - 1842 - 528 pages
...of introduction : — u An old song made by an aged oM pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman, who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, Ami an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate; Like an old courtier of the queen's, And the queen's... | |
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An old song, made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate... 
