 till eleven, or cock my lac'd Hat ; Then step to my Neighbours, 'till Dinner, to chat. Dinner over, to Toms, or to James's I go, The News of the Town so impatient to know ; While Law, Locke, and Newton, and all the rum Race, That talk of their Modes,...  The New Foundling Hospital for Wit: Being a Collection of Fugitive Pieces ... - Page 54edited by - 1786Full view - About this book
 | Christopher Smart - 1751 - 448 pages
...chains, may roam at largo On the bleft fummits of my native hills. Xbe STUD EN T. 279 LOWNGE R. I Rife about nine, get to breakfaft by ten, Blow a tune on my flute, or perhaps make a pen j Read a play 'till eleven, or cock my lac'd hat; Then ftep to my neighbour's, till dinner, to chat.... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1764 - 228 pages
...Vext at the Jeft, yet glad to fhun a Fray, I whifk into my Coach, and drive away. THE LOWNGE R. I Rife about Nine, get to Breakfaft by ten, Blow a Tune on my Flute, or perhaps make a Pen; Read r. Play 'till eleven, or cock my lac'd Hat; Then ftep to my Neighbour's, till Dinner, to chat. Dinner... | |
 | Oxford sausage - 1766 - 196 pages
...Jeft, yet glad to fbun a ftay, * wliifk into my coach, and drive away. THE LOWNGER: I Rife about nme, get to breakfaft by ten, Blow a tune on my flute,...till eleven, or cock my lac'd hat } Then ftep to my neighbours till dinner to chat. Dinner over, to Tom's, or tp James's I go, The news of the town fo... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1814 - 238 pages
...shun a fray, I whisk into my coach, and drive away. THE LOUNGER. I rise about nine, get to breakfast by ten, Blow a tune on my flute, or perhaps make a...Read a play till eleven, or cock my lac'd hat ; Then step to my neighbours, 'till dinner, to chat. • Dinner over, to Tom's or to James's 1 go, The news... | |
 | 1874 - 776 pages
...Lownger' jn the Oxford Sausage, which was first published in 1764. 1 1 rise about nine, get to Breakfast by ten, Blow a Tune on my Flute, or perhaps make a...Read a Play 'till eleven, or cock my lac'd Hat; Then step to my Neighbours, 'till Dinner, to chat. Dinner over, to Toms, or to James's I go, The News of... | |
 | 1874 - 772 pages
...Lownger' in the Oxford Sausage, which was first published in 1764. ' I rise about nine, get to Breakfast by ten, Blow a Tune on my Flute, or perhaps make a...Pen; Read a Play 'till eleven, or cock my lac'd Hat ; j Then step to my Neighbours, 'till Dinner, to chat. Dinner over, to Toms, or to James's I go, The... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1909 - 540 pages
...things, a great lack of discipline : ' I rise about nine, get to Breakfast by ten Blow a Tune on ray Flute, or perhaps make a Pen ; Read a Play 'till eleven, or cock my lac'd Hat ; Then step to my Neigbours, 'till Dinner to chat. Dinner over, to Tom's, or to James's I go, The News of... | |
 | 1890 - 628 pages
...description of the Lounger in the Oxford Sausage, first published in 1764. " I rise at nine, get to Breakfast by ten, Blow a Tune on my Flute, or perhaps make a...Read a Play 'till eleven, or cock my lac'd Hat ; Then step to my Neighbors, 'till Dinner, to chat. Dinner over, to Tom's, or to faints' s I go, The News... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1897 - 584 pages
...before the Corporation of London, 1732 (British Museum Tracts). * ' I rise about nine, get to breakfast by ten, Blow a tune on my flute or perhaps make a...Read a play till eleven or cock my lac'd hat, Then step to my neighbour's till dinner to chat. From the coffee house then I to tennis away, And at five... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1899 - 882 pages
...describes the eighteenth century variety of the idle undergraduate : I rise about nine, get to breakfast by ten. Blow a Tune on my Flute, or perhaps make a Pen ; Kead a Play 'till eleven, or cock my laced Hat ; Then step to my Neighbours, 'till Dinner, to chat.... | |
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