 | Charles Dickens - English literature - 1869 - 632 pages
...bone. His body, active as his mind, Returning sound in limb and wind, Except some leather lost behind. A skeleton in outward figure, His meagre corpse, though full of vigour, AVould halt behind him, were it bigger. So wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion,... | |
 | John Forster - Authors - 1875 - 524 pages
...not the least suspicion ' And travels not, but runs a race. ... ' He's with you like an apparition. * A skeleton in outward figure ' His meagre corpse,...vigour, • Would halt behind him were it bigger.' Swift was now to be resident in Ireland longer than usual, and I propose to give some description of his... | |
 | John Forster - Authors - 1875 - 530 pages
...wonderful his expedition, ' When you have not the least suspicion ' He's with yon like an apparition. • A skeleton in outward figure ' His meagre corpse,...' Would halt behind him were it bigger.' • Swift was .now to be resident in Ireland longer than usual, find I propose- to give some description of his... | |
 | Local history - 1875 - 522 pages
...prince in Europe's face, Flies like a squib from place to place, And travels not, but runs a race. " A skeleton in outward figure, His meagre corpse, though...full of vigour, Would halt behind him were it bigger. " So wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion, He's with you like an apparition."... | |
 | Edward Ellis Morris - Great Britain - 1877 - 290 pages
...wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion He's with you like an apparition — A skeleton in outward figure, His meagre corpse, though...full of vigour, Would halt behind him were it bigger. The commission which Peterborough received from the Home Government was purposely drawn with great... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 pages
...bone ; His body active as his mind, Returning sound in limb and wind, Except some leather lost behind. A skeleton in outward figure, His meagre corpse, though...of vigour, Would halt behind him, were it bigger. So wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion, He's with you like an apparition.... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1885 - 568 pages
...bone. His body active as his mind, Returning sound in limb and wind, Except some leather lost behind. A skeleton in outward figure ; His meagre corpse,...of vigour. Would halt behind him, were it bigger. PREFACE. 263 So wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion, He's with you like... | |
 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - Authors, English - 1886 - 634 pages
...hits off his, odd outward person, with an allusion to his extraordinary rapidity of movement:— " A skeleton in outward figure His meagre corpse, though...of vigour. Would halt behind him, were it bigger. " So wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion, He's with yon like an apparition."... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English literature - 1886 - 418 pages
...; His body, active as his mind, Returning sound in limb and wind, Except some leather lost behind. A skeleton in outward figure, His meagre corpse though...of vigour, Would halt behind him, were it bigger. VOL. I. Y So wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion, He's with you like an... | |
 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - Authors, Irish - 1893 - 388 pages
...prince in Europe's face, Flies like a squib from place to place, And travels not, but runs a race. A skeleton in outward figure, His meagre corpse, though...of vigour, Would halt behind him were it bigger." finest garden I have ever seen about this town, and abundance of hot walls for grapes, where they are... | |
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A skeleton in outward figure ; His meagre corpse, though full of vigour, Would halt behind him, were it bigger. So wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion, He's with you like an apparition. 
