 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...submissive congees, IfiO And all due ceremonies paid, He strok'd his beard, and thus he said : Madam, 1 do, as is my duty, Honour the shadow of your shoe-tie: And now am come, to bring your ear l6S A present you'll be glad to hear; At least I hope so. The thing... | |
 | Charles Frederick Bennett - English poetry - 1817 - 174 pages
...— to this fiend I could not truckle, cringe, and fawn, nor cry with Hudibrastic cunning, " Madam, I do, as is my duty, " Honour the shadow of your shoe-tie." . » I changed my situation, where I was a material favourite with the audience, and where the situation... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 402 pages
...submissive congees, 160 And all due ceremonies paid, He strok'd his beard, and thus he said : Madam, I do, as is my duty, Honour the shadow of your shoe-tie : And now am come, to bring your ear 165 A present, you'll be glad to hear ; At least I hope so ; the thing's... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...submissive congees, And all due ceremonies paid, He strok'd his beard, and thus he said > ' Madam, I do, as is my duty, Honour the shadow of your shoe-tie ; And now am come, to bring your ear A present you'll be glad to hear ; At least I hope so ; the thing's... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...submissive congees, And all due ceremonies paid, He stroked his beard, and thus he said : ' Madam, I do, as is my duty, Honour the shadow of your shoe-tie ; And now am come, to bring your ear A present you 'll be glad to hear ; At least I hope so ; the thing's... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1829 - 346 pages
...submissive congees, 160 And all due ceremonies paid, He strok'd his beard, and thus he said : Madam, I do, as is my duty, Honour the shadow of your shoe-tie ; And now am come to bring your ear 165 A present you'll be glad to hear : At least I hope so : the thing's... | |
 | Edmond Temple - Argentina - 1830 - 538 pages
...of poniendome a sus pies" — a usual Spanish compliment to ladies, meaning literally — " Madam, I do, as is my duty, Honour the shadow of your shoe-tie." Having said and acted all this with a becoming and effective graceful grimace, the patrona at last... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 518 pages
...submissive congees, 160 And all due ceremonies paid, He strok'd his beard, and thus he said : * Madam, I do, as is my duty, Honour the shadow of your shoe-tie ; ° And now am come, to bring your ear 165 A present you'll be glad to hear ; At least I hope so : the thing's... | |
 | Woman - 1835 - 758 pages
...him above measure : her dog, her picture, all that concerns her, are adored as reliques.(3> Madam, I do, as is my duty, Honour the shadow of your shoe-tie. BL-TLEK. And love's soft homage demands all this noble madness of the lover : its language is " a perpetual... | |
 | Edward Duke - Architecture, Domestic - 1837 - 686 pages
...and submissive congees, And all due ceremonies paid, He stroked his beard, and thus he said : ' Madam I do, as is my duty, Honour the shadow of your shoe-tie.' " It is unnecessary to prolong the quotation, but those, who wish to peruse the whole detail of this... | |
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Convey'd the' informer out of sight, And went to entertain the Knight ; With whom encountering, after longees Of humble and submissive congees, And all due ceremonies paid, He strok'd his beard, and thus he said : ' Madam, I do, as is my duty, Honour... 
