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" The manners that they never mend, The characters they mangle! They eat, and drink, and scheme, and plod, And go to church on Sunday; And many are afraid of God — And more of Mrs. Grundy. "
Nineteenth Century and After - Page 638
1895
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 123

American periodicals - 1874 - 898 pages
...manners that they never mend, The characters they mangle ! They eat, and drink, and scheme, and plod And go to church on Sunday ; And many are afraid of God — And more of Mrs. Grundy. Mr. Locker's talent is in harmony with the spirit of the time. He lives so in the age and belongs so...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1900 - 614 pages
...ras probably very much older. J. FOSTER PALMEE. 8, Royal Avenue, SW AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. — They eat and drink and scheme and plod, They go to...And many are afraid of God, And more of Mrs. Grundy. DB An antique stone, The relics spared by old decay, As records often stand alone Of races that have...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1900 - 676 pages
...was probably very much older. J. FOSTER PALMEE. 8, Royal Avenue, SW AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. — They eat and drink and scheme and plod, They go to...And many are afraid of God, And more of Mrs. Grundy. AD antique stone, The relics spared by old decay, As records often stand alone Of races that have passed...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volumes 9-10; Volume 83; Volume 1901

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1901 - 878 pages
...abnormal degree industrious, orderly, contented, and well-behaved. They cat, they drink, they sleep, they plod, They go to church on Sunday ; And many are afraid of God, And more of Mrs. Grundy. The county contains no Duke of Omnium or Marquis of Steyne— no transcendent and all-absorbing potentate....
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Poems, an offering to Lancashire [ed. by I. Craig-Knox].

Poems - English poetry - 1863 - 88 pages
...that they never mend ! The characters they mangle ! They eat, and drink, and scheme, and plod, And go to church on Sunday — And many are afraid of God — And more of Mrs. Grundy. The time for Pen and Sword was when " My ladye fayre," for pity Could tend her wounded knight, and...
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Love and Duty

Love, Author of Basil St. John - 1866 - 386 pages
...manners that they never mend, The characters they mangle ! They eat and drink, and scheme and plot. And go to church on Sunday, And many are afraid of God, And more of Mrs. Grundy ! ' F. LOCKKR. THE hours in the Cavendish establishment were by no means early ; and the next morning...
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London Lyrics

Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1870 - 212 pages
...manners that they never mend, The characters they mangle ! They eat, and drink, and scheme, and plod, And go to church on Sunday ; And many are afraid of God — And more of Mrs. Grimdy. 1 1 6 THE JESTER'S PLEA. The time for Pen and Sword was when " My ladye fayre," for pity Could...
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Cecile; Or, Modern Idolaters, Volume 1

Hawley Smart - 1871 - 340 pages
...manners that they never mend, The characters they mangle. They eat, and drink, and scheme, and plod, And go to church on Sunday ; And many are afraid of God, And more of Mrs. Grundy. Yes, to speak metaphorically, we most of us put our tails tight between our legs, and slink away down...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 140

1874 - 614 pages
...manners that they never mend, The characters they mangle ! They eat, and drink, and scheme, and plod, And go to church on Sunday ; And many are afraid of God — And more of Mrs. Grundy.' Mr. Locker's talent is in harmony with the spirit of .the time. He lives so in the age and belongs...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 137

English literature - 1874 - 618 pages
...it is scarcely hazardous to predict proverbiality : — ' They cat and drink and scheme and plod And go to church on Sunday ; And many are afraid of God And more of Mrs. Grundy.' 'The ' The Cockney met in Middlesex or Surrey Is often cold and always in a hurry.' Bringing the powers...
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