 Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin, That never has known the Barber's shear All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin, — Wait till you come to Forty Year.  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 623edited by - 1908Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 390 pages
...minute Like outcast spirits who wait And see through heaven's gate Angels within it. THE AGE OF WISDOM Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin, That never...boys begin, — Wait till you come to Forty Year. Curly gold locks cover foolish brains, Billing and cooing is all your cheer ; Sighing and singing of... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1112 pages
...The Age of Wisdom," which is emphatically put at " Forty Year." Here are the most pregnant stanzas : Ho, pretty page with the dimpled chin. That never...boys begin. — Wait till you come to Forty Year. Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear, — Then you know a boy... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 pages
...Meanwhile I will smoke my canaster, And tipple my ale in the shade. WM THACKERAY. 992. THE AGE OF WISDOM Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin, That never...boys begin, — Wait till you come to Forty Year. Curly gold locks cover foolish brains, Billing and cooing is all your cheer ; Sighing and singing of... | |
 | Sir James Henry Yoxall - 1909 - 344 pages
...and more to read in the spirit : " So, pretty page, with the dimpled diin That never has known ilte barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This...that boys begin, — Wait till you come to Forty Year ! " And that is all very well in its way. But if you wait till forty year before you marry, you are... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1911 - 526 pages
...through heaven's gate Angels within it. THE AGE OF WISDOM. II 0, pretty page, with the dimpled chin, -U- That never has known the barber's shear, All your...boys begin, — Wait till you come to Forty Year. Curly gold locks cover foolish brains, Billing and cooing is all your cheer ; Sighing and singing of... | |
 | 1912 - 408 pages
...person, Went on cutting bread and butter. William Makepeace Thackeray [1811-1863] THE AGE OF WISDOM Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin, That never...boys begin, — Wait till you come to Forty Year. Curly gold locks cover foolish brains, Billing and cooing is all your cheer; Sighing, and singing of... | |
 | Conway Whittle Sams - 1913 - 362 pages
...from wine, A sad, sour, sober beverage." — Byron. "Ho ! pretty page, of the dimpled chin, All you wish is woman to win; This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to forty years." — Thackeray. "Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - 1514 pages
...Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter. Ibid. Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never...that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year. The Age of Wisdom. Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, " Who loves not wine,... | |
 | William Harrison Lambert - 1914 - 684 pages
...It begins : "По pretty page with the dimpled chinThat never has known the Barbers shear, All you wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin, Wait till you come to Forty Tear." 966. SONGS. Ho! Pretty Page, Words from Thackeray's Rebecco and Rowena, now adapted to a Popular... | |
 | 1918 - 2030 pages
...person, Went on cutting bread and butter. William Makepeace Thackeray [1811-1863] THE AGE OF WISDOM Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin, That never...boys begin, — Wait till you come to Forty Year. Curly gold locks cover foolish brains, Billing and cooing is all your cheer; Sighing, and singing of... | |
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