 | England - 1823 - 746 pages
...want of a subject for song ; Thinks I to myself, I have hit on a strain, — Sure marriage is much like a Devonshire lane. In the first place, 'tis long,...and when once you are in it, It holds you as fast as the cage holds a linnet ; For howe'er rough and dirty the road may be found, Drive forward you must,... | |
 | Scotland - 1823 - 758 pages
...want of a subject for song ; Thinks I to myself, I have hit on a strain, — Sure marriage is much like a Devonshire lane. •• .. • • • In the...and when once you are in it, It holds you as fast as the cage holds a linnet ; For howe'er rough and dirty the road may be found, Drive forward you must,... | |
 | Joanna Baillie - English poetry - 1823 - 386 pages
...in want of a subject for song, Thinks I to myself, I have hit on a strain, — Sure marriage is much like a Devonshire lane. In the first place, 'tis long,...and when once you are in it, It holds you as fast as the cage holds a linnet, For howe'er rough and dirty the road may be found, Drive forward you must,... | |
 | England - 1823 - 762 pages
...In the first place, 'tis long, and when once you are in it, It holds you as fast as the cage holds a linnet ; For howe'er rough and dirty the road may be found, Drive forward you must, since there's no turning round. But though 'tis so long, it is not very wide, For two are the most... | |
 | Joanna Baillie - English poetry - 1823 - 388 pages
...In the first place, 'tis long, and when once you are in it, It holds you as fast as the cage holds a linnet, For howe'er rough and dirty the road may be found, Drive forward you must, since there's no turning round. But tho' 'tis so long, it is not very wide, For two are the most that... | |
 | 1836 - 352 pages
...by the rain, Sure marriage is just like a Devonshire lane. In the first place it is long, and when you are in it It holds you as fast as a cage does a linnet ; While, however rough and dirty the road may be found, Drive forward you must, since there's no turning... | |
 | Literature - 1896 - 926 pages
...Beside the mansion of thy rest. CET Malaga. Academy. In a Devonshire lane, as I trotted along T' other day, much in want of a subject for song, Thinks I...dirty the road may be found, Drive forward you must, there is no turning round. But though 'tis so long, it is not very wide, For two are the most that... | |
 | American periodicals - 1862 - 670 pages
...in want of a subject for song, Thinks I to myself, I have hit on a strain — Sure marriage is much like a Devonshire lane. In the first place, 'tis long...when once you are in it, It holds you as fast as a cnge does a linnet ; But howe'cr rough and dirty the road may be found, Drive forward you must —... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 530 pages
...MIRROR. In the first place, 'tis long; and when once you are m it, U huida you as fuel as a cage holds a linnet ; For howe'er rough and dirty the road may be found. Drive forward you must, for there'» no turning round ! But though 'tis so long, it is not very wide ; For two are the most that... | |
 | Samuel Rowe - Dartmoor (England) - 1848 - 348 pages
...much in want of a subject for song, Thinks I to myself, I have hit on a strain. Sure marriage is much like a Devonshire lane. In the first place 'tis long,...dirty, the road may be found, Drive forward you must, there is no turning round. But though 'tis so long, it is not very wide, For two are the most that... | |
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T'other day, much in want of a subject for song, Thinks I to myself, I have hit on a strain, Sure marriage is much like a Devonshire lane. 
