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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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Tom & Jerry: Life in London, Or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn ...

Pierce Egan - 1869 - 448 pages
...determined to pursue it, with increasing ardour, to the end of the Chapter. Happy the man who, void of care and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A SPLENDID SHILLING : ho nor hears with pain New oysters cry'd, nor sighs for cheerful ale. 1 A poor PUNSTER, who was hurrying...
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Favourite English poems and poets

English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...is a parody on the style of Milton, has always been very popular.] H APPY the man, who, void of care and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains...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,...
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Chambers's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1876 - 872 pages
...which even able men will sometimes entertain. The Splendid Shilling. 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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A New Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...Muse I Things unattcmpted yet, in prose or rhyme,' A shilling, breeches, and chimeras dire." HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leather purse retains A Splendid Shilling : he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for...
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Single Famous Poems

Rossiter Johnson - 1877 - 308 pages
...heavenly Muse I Things unattempted yet, iu prose or rhyme," A shilling, breeches, and chimeras dire. HAPPY the man, who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leather purse retains A Splendid Shilling : he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for...
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A New Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...Muse ! Things unattuinpu-d >u. in jirobc or rhyme,' A shilling, brecclie*. and chimera* dire." HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leather purse retains A Splendid Shilling : he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for...
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Single Famous Poems

Rossiter Johnson - 1877 - 312 pages
...breeches, and chimeras dire. HAPPY the man, who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leather 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,...
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Humorous poems by English and American writers

William Michael Rossetti - 1878 - 510 pages
...heavenly Muse ! Things unattemptcd yet, in prose or rhyme," A Shilling, Breeches, and Chimeras dire. HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or...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...
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The Autumn Holidays of a Country Parson

Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1878 - 814 pages
...an amusing parody of the style of Milton : it sets out thus : — Happy the man, who, void of care and strife, In silken or in leathern purse, retains...Splendid Shilling: he nor hears with pain, New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale. Our shortening space forbids our offering our readers any account...
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Carleton's Hand-book of Popular Quotations: A Book of Ready Reference for ...

G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 pages
...SHEPHERD'S BOY, piping as though he never should be old. — SIDNEY, Arcadia, book i. Shilling. — Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A splendid SHILLING. — J. PHILLIPS, The Snlendid ShMing. Shriek. — A solitary SHRIEK, the bubbling cry Of some strong...
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