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" The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. "
The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, Esqr: With an ... - Page 217
by William Hayley - 1803 - 413 pages
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Poems, with a memoir of the author

William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...gilding. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. As similarity of mind, Or something not to be defined, First fixes our attention...
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The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper ...: Including the Copyright ...

William Cowper - English poetry - 1849 - 740 pages
...So, manners, decent and polite, The same we practised at first sight, Must save it from declension. The man who hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumping...that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. Some friends make this their prudent plan" Say little, and hear all you can ;"...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 39

1849 - 778 pages
...the commentators on Catullus, thinking, no doubt, that the man who could so write to his intimates Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it, have interpreted them as expressing real hostility, and have assumed that a breach...
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Poems

William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pages
...gilding. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. A similarity of mind, Or something not to be defined, First fixes our attention...
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The Christian Library: Comrising the Following Standard Works in Religious ...

Theology - 1851 - 592 pages
...; So manners decent and polite, The same we practised at first sight, Must save it from declension. The man who hails you Tom, or Jack, And proves, by...that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon, or to bear it. Some friends make this their prudent plan, Say little, and hear all you can...
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Domestic happiness; Home education; Politeness and good breeding

George Etell Sargent - 1851 - 190 pages
...that, ' The man who hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back, How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much a friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it.' And if a man void of good breeding have to transact business...
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Poems

William Cowper - Authors, English - 1853 - 800 pages
...So, manners decent and polite, The same we practis'd at first sight, Must savo it from declension. The man who hails you Tom— or Jack, And proves by...that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon, or to bear it. Some friends make this their prudent pi " Say little, and hear all you can ?"...
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Poems, by William Cowper, Esq: Together with His Posthumous Poetry, and a ...

William Cowper - 1853 - 796 pages
...So, manners decent and polite, . The same we practis'd at first sight,' Must save it from declension. The man who hails you Tom— or Jack, And proves by...your back His sense of your great merit, Is such a frfend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon, or to bear it. Some friends make...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1853 - 520 pages
...So manners, decent and polite, The fame we practifed at firft fight, Muft fave it from declenfion. The man who hails you Tom — or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back His fenfe of your great merit, Is fuch a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, Some...
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The Poetry of the Sentiments

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - English poetry - 1853 - 334 pages
...gilding. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. Sometimes the fault is all our own, Some blemish in due time made know By trespass...
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