 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.  Proverbial Folk-lore - Pagina 94di Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1875 - 173 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | William Goodman - 1844 - 378 pagine
..." The man who hails you, Tom or Jack And proves, by thumping on your back, His sense of your great merit ; Is such a friend that one has need, Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it." The following were their rules of etiquette, or acquaintance... | |
 | William Goodman - 1845 - 440 pagine
..." The man who hails you, Tom or Jack And proves, by thumping on your back, His sense of your great merit ; Is such a friend that one has need, Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it." The following were their rules of etiquette, or acquaintance... | |
 | My youthful companions - 1846 - 170 pagine
...own gain. The first necessary property in friendship is, that it should be wholly disinterested. ' The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by...he esteems your merit ; Is such a friend that one had need, Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it.' " — COWPER. " Why, Jack," said... | |
 | 1846 - 860 pagine
...that of back-slapping, which is thus alluded to by the acute and sensitive Cowper : — 1 The man who hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your hierit, Ts snch a friend, that one hail need Be тегу mucb his friend indeed To pardon or to bear... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pagine
...building— The palace were but half complete, If he could possibly forget The carving and the gilding. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pagine
...building — The palace were but half complete, If he could possibly forget The carving and the gilding. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by...he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one bad need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. As similarity of mind, Or something... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pagine
...them. The palace were but half complete, If tie could possibly forget The carving and the gilding. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by...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... | |
 | George Etell Sargent - 1851 - 190 pagine
...either captious and quarrelsome, or offensively familiar. He does not consider that, ' The man who hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your...he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much a friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it.' And if a man void of good breeding... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 620 pagine
...half complete, If he could possibly forget The carving and the gilding. The man that bails 700 Tom at 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... | |
 | Omar - 1852 - 120 pagine
...quaint language of one of the greatest poets that ever entered the service of the Crown Prince : — "The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves, by...he esteems your merit, — Is such a friend, that you had need Be very much his friend, indeed, To pardon or to bear it." Obsequious, doubtless, supposed,... | |
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