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" Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling: he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie or... "
Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces - Page 209
edited by - 1821 - 807 pages
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...main, Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme ;" •A shilling, breeches, and chimeras dire. Happy the man, who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains New oysters cry'd, nor sighs for cheerful ale ; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To...
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 pages
...obey, Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea. Ibid. Canto 3. Happy the man, who void of care and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A splendid shilling. Philips. Drayton, in his Nymphidia, or Court of Faery, has an amusing description of a rider, who turns...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...yet, in prose or rhyme,' A shilling, breeches, and chimera» dire. Happy the man, who, void of care cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale ; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie,...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 12

1847 - 608 pages
...character. Thus Philips, in " The Splendid Shilling," makes great havoc of the style of Milton. [" Happy the man, who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains VOL. XII. No. IV. 30 A splendid shilling : he nor hears with pain New oysters cry'd, nor sighs for...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1849 - 710 pages
...yet, in prose or rhyme,' Л shilling, brooches, and chimeras dire. Happy the man, who, void of care @ 4 hear» with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale ; But with his friends, when nightly...
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The Works of Robert Fergusson

Robert Fergusson, Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1851 - 456 pages
...lays. 1 See Additional Notes and Illustrations, B. CALLER OYSTERS. Happy the man who, free from care and strife, , In silken or in leathern purse, retains A splendid shilling. He nor hetirs with pain New oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful ale. [JOHN] PHILLIPS ; (The exordium of...
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Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ...

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...66. Bande der Bell'schen und im 6. Bande der Anderson'schen Sammlung. > The splendid Shilling. Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or...oysters cry'd, nor sighs for cheerful ale ; But with Iils friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie, or Town-Hall, repairs, Where, mindful...
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The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

1852 - 874 pages
...heaventy Muse! Tbings unattempted yet, in prose or rhyme," A shifling, brooches, and chimeras dire. HAPPY her face! But so weak and small her wit, That she to g leather purse retains A Splendid Shilling : he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for...
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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and ...

Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 pages
...silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling: he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale ; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie, or Town-Hallf repairs : Where, mindful of the nymph, whose waoton eye Transfix'd his soul, and kindled...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1853 - 714 pages
...silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling: he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale ; But with his friends, when nightly mists arist, To Juniper's Magpie, or Town-hall1 repairs : Where, mindful of the nymph, whose wanton eye TransfiVd...
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