 | Charles Rogers - 1890 - 412 pages
...Goldsmith has celebrated him in these lines : — Here Whitefoord reclines, and deny it who can, Though he merrily liv'd, he is now a grave man : Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun ! Who relish'da joke, and rejoiced in a pun, Whose temper was generous, open, sincere, A stranger to flatt'ry,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1890 - 240 pages
...in this street. In Goldsmith's " Retaliation " (or, rather, the postscript) he is described as a " rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun, who relished a joke and rejoiced in a pun." Died 1810. At No. 7 lodged Benjamin Franklin as the representative of the American... | |
 | Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall - 1894 - 930 pages
...his trumpet, and only took snuff.' POSTSCRIPT.' HERE Whitefoord reclines, and deny it who can, Though he merrily liv'd, he is now a grave man : Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun ! "VYho relish'da joke, and rejoic'd in a pun ; Whose temper was generous, open, sincere; A stranger... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1895 - 552 pages
...took snuff.3 POSTSCRIPT.« Here Whitefoord reclines, and, deny it who can, Though he merrily lived, he is now a grave man ; Rare compound of oddity, frolic and fun, Who relished a joke and rejoiced in a pun ; Whose temper was generous, open, sincere ; A stranger to flatt'ry, a stranger to... | |
 | Charles Whitefoord, Caleb Whitefoord - 1898 - 346 pages
...subsequent editions of his poems 2. Here Whitefoord reclines, and deny it who can, Tho' he merrily lived, he is now a grave man ! Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun, Who relish'da joke, and rejoic'd in a pun ; Whose temper was gen'rous, open, sincere, A stranger to flattery,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1901 - 458 pages
...the late Doctor Goldsmith.] Here Whitefoord reclines, and, deny it who can, Though he merrily lived, he is now a grave man. Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun ! Who relished a joke, and rejoiced in a pun ; Whose temper was generous, open, sincere ; A stranger to flattery, a stranger to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1906 - 362 pages
...will be of no use to me where 1 am going." ' HERE Whitefoord reclines, and deny it who can, Though he merrily liv'd, he is now a grave man ; Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun ! Who relish'da joke, and rejoic'd in a pun ; 150 Whose temper was generous, open, sincere ; A stranger to... | |
 | 1906 - 810 pages
...Johnny, — A kind of a little Johnny, you know, HOLMES, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, vii Joke, — Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun! Who relished a joke, and rejoiced in a pun; Whose temper was generous, open, sincere; A stranger to flattery, a stranger to... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? 584 Pope: Epis. to Arbuthnot. Lino 213, Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun ! Who relished a joke and rejoic'd in a pun. Describe him who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. 586 (loldsmith : Retaliation.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1919 - 106 pages
...took snuff. 146 By flattery unspoil'd POSTSCRIPT HERE Whitefoord reclines, and deny it who can, Though he merrily liv'd, he is now a grave man: Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun! 150 Who relish'da joke, and rejoic'd in a pun; Whose temper was generous, open, sincere; A stranger... | |
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Whose daily bon mots half a column might fill ; A Scotchman, from pride and from prejudice free ; A scholar, yet surely no pedant was he. 
