With faire discourse the evening so they pas : For that olde man of pleasing wordes had store, And well could file his tongue as smooth as glas, He told of Saintes and Popes, and evermore He strowd an Ave-Mary after and before. The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day - Page 228by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner - 1915Full view - About this book
| Poetical narratives - English poetry - 1810 - 330 pages
...; Re»t is their feast, and all thinges at their will : The noblest mind the best contentment has. With faire discourse the evening so they pas ; For...And well could file his tongue, as smooth as glas : He told of saintes and popes, and evermore He strowd an Ave-Mary after and before. A t The drouping... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 600 pages
...thiuges at their will : The noblest nrnd the best contentment has. With faire discourse the e.vcning <o they pas; For that olde man of pleasing wordes had...And well could file his tongue, as smooth as glas: He told of saintes and popes, and evermore He slrowd an Ave.-Mary after and before. The droup'ng night... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 420 pages
...feast, and all thinges at their will : The noblest mind the best eontentment has. With faire diseourse the evening so they pas ; For that olde man of pleasing wordes had store, And well eould file his tongue, as smooth as glas M; told of saintes and popes, and evermore He strowd an Ave-Mary... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 356 pages
...', Hest is their feast, and all thinges at their will : The noblest mind the best contentment has. With faire discourse the evening so they pas ; For...And well could file his tongue, as smooth as glas : He told of saintes and popes, and evermore He strowd an Ave-Mary after and before. XXXVI. The drouping... | |
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1831 - 1038 pages
...was ; Rest is their feast, and all thinges at their will : The noblest mind the best contentment has. With faire discourse the evening so they pas ; For that olde man of pleasing wordes had store, And wel could file his tongue, as smooth as glas : He told of saintes and popes, and evermore He strowd... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 444 pages
...was ; Rest is their least, and all thinges at their will : The noblest mind the best contentment has. With faire discourse the evening so they pas ; For...of pleasing wordes had store, And well could file 2 his tongue, as smooth as glas : He told of saintes and popes, and evermore He strowd an Ave-Mary... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1843 - 388 pages
...was ; Rest is their feast, and all thinges at their will : The noblest mind the best contentment has. With faire discourse the evening so they pas ; For...of pleasing wordes had store, And well could file bis tongue, as smooth as glas: He told of saintes and popes, and evermore He strowd an Ave-Mary after... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 pages
...frame other. Wyat. The abated Lauer léela his roiy, \c. With faire discourse the evening so they pass; For that olde man of pleasing wordes had store, And well could file his tongue, as smooth as glass. Spenser. Faerie Queene, book i. can. I. For common chalybi pra-paratus, or corroded and powdered... | |
| Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd - 1845 - 654 pages
...was ; Rest is their feast, and all thinges at their will : The noblest mind the best contentment has. of mightie conquerours And poets sape ; the firre that weepeth still ; rv. 4. Uii'ltr a vole, : He told of saintes and popes, and evermore He strowd an Am-Manj after and before. xxx. 9. W ilk holy... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1855 - 858 pages
...was ; Best is their feast, and all thinges at thsir will : Th? noblest mind the best contentment has. "With faire discourse the evening so they pas ; For...And well could file his tongue, as smooth as glas : He told of saintes and popes, and evermore He strowd an Ave-Mary after and before. The dumping night... | |
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