 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 pages
...at ; Alas, that such frolic should now be so quiet! What spirits were his! what wit and what whim! Now breaking a jest and now breaking a limb! Now wrangling...ball! Now teasing and vexing, yet laughing at all! In short, so provoking a devil was Dick, That we wished him full ten times a-day at Old Nick; But missing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 196 pages
...at; Alas ! that such frolic should now be so quiet ! What spirits were his ! what wit and what whim ! Now breaking a jest — and now breaking a limb; Now...ball ; Now teasing and vexing — yet laughing at all ! In short, so provoking a devil was Dick, That we wish'd him full ten times a day at Old Nick ; But,... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 422 pages
...; Alas ! that such frolic should now be so quiet ! What spirits were his ! what wit and what whim ! Now breaking a jest, and now breaking a limb ; Now...and grumbling to keep up the ball ; Now teasing and vexing—yet laughing at all ! In short, so provoking a devil was Dick, That we wished him full ten... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 pages
.... Alas that such frolic should now be so quiet ! What spirits were his ! what wit and what whim, 17 Now breaking a jest, and now breaking a limb ; Now...ball, Now teasing and vexing, yet laughing at all ! In short, so provoking a devil was Dick, That we wish'd him full ten times a day at Old Nick; But,... | |
 | James Beattie, Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 540 pages
...at; Alas, that such frolic should now be so quiet! What spirits were his! what wit and what whim ! Now breaking a jest, and now breaking a limb !* Now...ball! Now teasing and vexing, yet laughing at all! In short, so provoking a devil was Dick, That we wish'd him full ten times a day at Old Nick; But missing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 182 pages
...accidents, as a kind of retributive justice for breaking his jests upon other people. 70 Goldsmith's Poems. Now wrangling and grumbling, to keep up the ball! Now teasing and vexing, yet laughing at all! In short, so provoking a devil was Dick, That we wish'd him full ten times a day at Old Nick ; But... | |
 | 1865 - 342 pages
...at; Alas that such frolic should now be so quiet! What spirits were his! what wit and what whim, 17 Now breaking a jest, and now breaking a limb; Now...ball, Now teasing and vexing, yet laughing at all! In short, so provoking a devil was Dick, That we wish'd him full ten times a day at Old Nick; But,... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie - 1865 - 758 pages
...companions, immortalised in Goldsmith's picture of him :— " What spirits were his! what wit, and what whim! Now breaking a jest, and now breaking a limb; Now...ball; Now teasing and vexing, yet laughing at all! In short, so provoking a devil was Dick, That we wish'd him full ten times a-day at Old Nick ; But... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Henry William Dulcken - 1865 - 410 pages
...What spirits were his ! what wit and what whim ! Now breaking a jest, and now breaking a" limb ! 2 Now wrangling and grumbling, to keep up the ball ! Now teasing and vexing, yet laughing at all! In short, so provoking a devil wns Dick, That we wish'd him full ten times a day at Old Nick ; But... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1867 - 410 pages
...sigh at, Alas, that such frolic should now be so quiet! What spirits were his, what wit and what whim, Now breaking a jest, and now breaking a limb! Now...ball, Now teasing and vexing, yet laughing at all! In short, so provoking a devil was Dick, That we wish'd him full ten times a day at Old Nick; But,... | |
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What spirits were his! what wit, and what whim 1 Now breaking a jest, and now breaking a limb ; Now wrangling and grumbling to keep up the ball, Now teasing and vexing, yet laughing at all. 
