 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1890 - 640 pages
...the stones! He's only a pauper whom nobody owns! " You bumpkins! who stare at your brother conveyed, Behold what respect to a cloddy is paid ! And be joyful...the stones ! He's only a pauper whom nobody owns! " But a truce to this strain; for my soul it is sad, To think that a heart in humanity clad Should... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 394 pages
...what respect to a cloddy is paid ! 16* And be joyful to think, when by death you 're laid low, You 've a chance to the grave like a gemman to go ! Rattle his bones over the stones I He '« only a pauper, whom nobody owns I But a truce to this strain ; for my soul it is sad, To think... | |
 | John McNeill - 1890 - 428 pages
...visible, until at last the earth covers him. There is no funeral mentioned for poor Lazarus. " Eattle his bones, over the stones ; He's only a pauper whom nobody owns." That is it, if he does get a funeral. But, for the rich man, it is mentioned ; and, seeing that Christ... | |
 | Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1891 - 570 pages
...the stones! He's only a pauper whom nobody owns! " You bumpkins! who stare at your brother conveyed, Behold what respect to a cloddy is paid! And be joyful...over the stones! He's only a pauper whom nobody owns! " But a truce to this strain; for my soul it is sad, To think that a heart in humanity clad Should... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...the dirt right and left o'er the hedges is hurled ! The pauper at length makes a noise in the world. Rattle his bones over the stones; He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns. Poor pauper defunct! He has made some approach To gentility, now that he's stretched in a coach; He's... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1907 - 1148 pages
...idea to them of becoming a pauper was more dreadful than death itself. They remembered the lines — " Rattle his bones, over the stones ; He's only a pauper whom nobody owns." These old people very often became dependent upon their relatives. Parents went to live with a married... | |
 | Choirs (Music) - 1893 - 232 pages
...reminded one of someone bolting the back door ; while the use of the pedals recalled the couplet : — " Rattle his bones over the stones, He's only a pauper whom nobody owns ; " not to mention the compromise effected between stops more or less out of tune. And this, too, in... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 462 pages
...tear in the eye of child, woman, or man ;— To the grave with his carcass as fast as yon can. Rиttle his bones over the stones ; He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns. What a jolting, and creaking, and splashing, and din I The whip how it cracks, and the wheels how they... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - English poetry - 1893 - 386 pages
...dirt, right and left, o'er the hedges is hurled ! The pauper at length makes a noise in the world. " Rattle his bones over the stones ; He's only a pauper, whom nobody ovms\" Poor pauper defunct, he has made some approach To gentility, now that he's stretched in a coach,... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Readers - 1894 - 586 pages
...stones ! He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns ! You bumpkins ! who stare at your brother conveyed — Behold what respect to a cloddy is paid ! And be joyful...low, You've a chance to the grave like a gemman to go ! Battle his bones over the stones ! But a truce to this strain ; for my soul it is sad, To think that... | |
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Rattle his bones over the stones! He's only a pauper whom nobody owns! 
