 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 Cowper - 1855 - 582 pagine
...but half complete, If he could possibly forget The carving and the gilding. The man that hails yeu 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. As similarity of mind, Or something... | |
 | Matilda Marian Chesney Pullan - 1855 - 312 pagine
...smallest apology all recognised rules of society. Cowper says — " The friend who calls you Tom and 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." And the poet was .right. No amount... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1856 - 430 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pagine
...! A Fable. (Moral.) 'Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours. Friendship. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by...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. The Needless Alarm. (Moral.) Beware... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 512 pagine
...forget But 'tis not timber, lead, and stone, An architect requires alone, 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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1857 - 612 pagine
...as you would drunkenness ; for " The man who hails топ Тот or Jack, And proves by thumping on 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." This, however, is but a violation... | |
 | 1858 - 256 pagine
...more important as a common- sense observation upon rude familiarity, and not lesa humorously put: ' The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How ho esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon... | |
 | William Cowper - 1859 - 324 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...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. As similarity of mind, Or something... | |
 | Cecil B. Hartley - 1860 - 344 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...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... | |
 | Cecil B. Hartley - 1860 - 344 pagine
...Jack, And proves, by thumps upon your hack, How 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 have to transact business with a superior in wealth or situation,... | |
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