 Needy Knife-grinder! whither are you going? Rough is the road, your Wheel is out of order — Bleak blows the blast; — your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches! 'Weary Knife-grinder! little think the proud ones, Who in their coaches roll...  Romantic Parodies, 1797-1831 - Seite 26herausgegeben von - 1992 - 409 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 346 Seiten
...not what's resisted. r GEORGE CANNING [1770-1827]. The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-grinder. ' NEEDY Knife-grinder ! whither are you going ? Rough...road, your wheel is out of order — Bleak blows the blast — your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches ! ' Weary Knife-grinder ! little think... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 348 Seiten
...resisted. V 1 A little. GEORGE CANNING [1770-1827]. The Friend of Humanity and tl1e Knife-grinder. ' NEEDY Knife-grinder ! whither are you going ? Rough...road, your wheel is out of order — Bleak blows the blast — your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches ! ' Weary Knife-grinder ! little think... | |
 | J. A. Stanley Adam, Bernard C. White - 1912 - 620 Seiten
...CANNING The Friend of Humanity & the Knife-grinder [Parody — Robert Sou they] FRIEND OF HUMANITY EDY knife-grinder ! whither are you going ? Rough is the...road, your wheel is out of order — Bleak blows the blast ; — your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches ! " Weary knife-grinder ! little think... | |
 | Walter Jerrold, Robert Maynard Leonard - 1913 - 460 Seiten
...season, he was obliged to decline it. THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY AND THE KNIFE-GRINDERSapphics. (SOUTHEY) FRIEND OF HUMANITY. ' NEEDY Knife-grinder ! whither...road, your wheel is out of order — Bleak blows the blast; your hat has got a hole in 't, So have your breeches ! ' Weary Knife-grinder ! little think... | |
 | Joseph Berg Esenwein, Mary Eleanor Roberts - 1913 - 336 Seiten
...Knif e-Grinder, " which is a burlesque of this measure, a dactyl is substituted for the first trochee. Needy knife-grinder! whither are you going? Rough...road, your wheel is out of order, — Bleak blows the blast, — your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches! — CANNING AND FRERE. Choriambic.... | |
 | 1918 - 2030 Seiten
...dinner. But (what is only known to few) The fox is after dinner, too. Guy Wetmore C.arryl [1873-1904] THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY AND THE KNIFEGRINDER FRIEND...road; your wheel is out of order. — Bleak blows the blast; — your hat has got a hole in't. So have your breeches! Weary knife-grinder! little think the... | |
 | Horace - 1919 - 564 Seiten
...often reads with the effect of Canning's 'Needy Knife-grinder ' : ' Needy knife-grinder whither aré you going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order, Bleak blows the blast ; your hat has got a hole in it, So have your breeches.' After mastering the Sapphic and Alcaic... | |
 | 1920 - 1016 Seiten
...flute! " A fool, in spite of nature's bent, May shine for once, — by accident. Tomaso de Yriarte. THE KNIFE-GRINDER Friend of Humanity "NEEDY Knife-grinder!...— your wheel is out of order — Bleak blows the blast ; your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches! " Weary Knife-grinder ! little think the... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 Seiten
...what worlds away. ROBERT BROWNING — By tlte fireside. St. 39. 11 Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye ishment. VOLTAIRE — Semiramis. V. 1. 24 blast- — your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches. CANNING — The Friend of Humanity... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 Seiten
...Ocean bellow from his rocky shore, And neither awful Voice be heard by Thee! WILLIAM WOBDSWOBTH 359. THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY AND THE KNIFE-GRINDER Friend...road, your wheel is out of order — Bleak blows the blast; — your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches. Weary Knife-grinder! little think the... | |
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