With whom I feast I do not fawn, Nor if the folks should flout me, faint ; If wonted welcome be withdrawn, I cook no kind of a complaint : With none disposed to disagree, But like them best who best like me. Miscellaneous Poems - Page 80by John Byrom - 1773 - 353 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Wesley - Biography - 1780 - 760 pages
...cook no kind of a complaint: With none difpofed to difagree, But like them beft, who beft like mo. Not that I rate myfelf the rule, How all my betters...; But fame fhall find me no man's fool.; Nor to a fet of men a ftave : I love a friendfhip free and frank, And hate to hang upon a hank. Fond of a true... | |
| Charles Snart - Poetry - 1808 - 506 pages
...who best like me. Not that I rate myself the rule How all my betters should behave ; But fame shall find me no man's fool, Nor to a set of men a slave : I love a friendship free and frank, And hate to hang upon a hank. Fond of a true and trusty tie, I never loose... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 686 pages
...who best like me. Not that I rate myself the rule How all my betters should behave; But fame shall find me no man's fool, Nor to a set of men a slave: I love a friendship free and frank, And hate to hang upon a hank. Fond of a true and trusty tie, .1 never loose... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 682 pages
...who best like me. "lot that I rate myself the rule How all my betters should behave; Jut fame shall find me no man's fool, Nor to a set of men a slave: love a friendship free and ffank, And hate to hang upon a hank. ?ond of a true and trusty tie, I never... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 680 pages
...best like me, Vot that I rate myself the rule How all- my betters should behave; lut fame shall liml me no man's fool. Nor to a set of men a slave: love a friendship free and frnnk, i ml hate to hang upon a hank. pond of a true and trusty tie, 1 never... | |
| 1814 - 548 pages
...who best like me. Not that I rate myself the rule How all my better;) should behave ; But fame shall find me no man's fool. Nor to a set of men a slave : I love a friendship tree and frank, And hate to hang upon a hank. Fond of a true and trusty tie, I never loose... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...best like me. Not that I rate myself the rnle How all my betters should behave ; But fame shall fiud me no man's fool, Nor to a set of men a slave : I love a friendship free and frank, And hate to han^ upon a hank. Fond of a true and trusty tie, I never loose... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...who best like me. Not that I rate myself the rule How all my betters should behave; But fame shall find me no man's fool, Nor to a set of men a slave: I love a friendship free and frank, And hate to hang upon a hank. Fond of a true and trusty tie, I never loose... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...who best like me. Not that I rate myself the rule How all my betters should behave ; But fame shall a striking sketch of the Druses, the hardy mountain race des friendship free and frank, And hate to hang upon a hank. Fond of a true and trusty tie, I never loose... | |
| Richard Wright Procter - Poets, Scottish - 1860 - 182 pages
...who best like me. Not that I rate myself the rule How all my betters should behave; But fame shall find me no man's fool, Nor to a set of men a slave : I love a friendship free and frank, And hate to hang upon a hank. Fond of a true and trusty tie, I never loose... | |
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