 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...arrive, Get riehes first, get wealth. Milton's Paradise Regained. Happy the man, who, void of eares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A splendid shilling. Philips's Splendid ShiUing. Mueh learning shows how little mortals know ; Mueh wealth, how little worldlings... | |
 | 1855 - 178 pages
...important words may advantageously be placed at the close : thus — " Happy the man, who, void of cares and strife, in silken or in leathern purse retains a splendid shilling." The plain and grammatical order of a sentence being that, which corresponds to the usual mode of expression,... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...ta. 227 22S JOHN PHILIPS. Born 1070. f '"X**The splendid Shilling. Happy the man who, void of cares and strife In silken or in leathern purse retains...pain New oysters cry'd, nor sighs for cheerful ale Hut with his friends, when nightly mists aril To Juniper's Magpie, or Town-Hall, repair! Where, mindful... | |
 | 1857 - 1712 pages
...OYSTERS. The Closet of Cookery. By Sir Kenelm Digby. London : 1669. " Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains...Splendid Shilling : he nor hears with pain, New Oysters cried." So sang John Philips, laureate of Cider, of Tobacco, of the Splendid Shilling, and of the Duke... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
..., " J tkiltinf, breeclu*, and dimeras dire. Happy the man, who, void of carea and strife, In lilken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling :...pain New oysters cry'd, nor sighs for cheerful ale; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpye, or Town-hall repairs ; Where,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 362 pages
...yet, in prose or rhyme," A Shilling, Breeches, and Chimeras dire. Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains...Splendid Shilling: he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie... | |
 | Thomas Littleton Holt - 1860 - 326 pages
...and, in three minutes afterwards, the note was paid in due form. CHAPTER XXI. THE SILVER ROBBEKY. " Happy the man who, free from care and strife, In silken...or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling." PHILLIPS. TIIEKE were certain skill salesmen who made a practice of attending every Monday morning... | |
 | Thomas Littleton Holt - 1860 - 350 pages
...the note was paid in due form. CHAPTER XXI. THE SILVER HOBBEKY. " Happy the man who, free from cave and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling." PHILLIPS. THERE were certain skin salesmen who made a practice of attending every Monday morning at... | |
 | 1861 - 300 pages
...turn, Who maggots were before. . THE SPLENDID SHILLING. JOHN PHILIPS. APPY the man who, void of eares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains...Splendid Shilling ! he nor hears with pain New oysters eried, nor sighs for eheerful ale ; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie,... | |
 | 1861 - 858 pages
...yet in prose or rhyme ? A shilling, Breeches and Chimeras dire.' " Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains...Splendid Shilling : he nor hears with pain New oysters cried, nor sighs for cheerful ale ; But with his friends, when nightly mists arise, To Juniper's Magpie... | |
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HAPPY the man who, void of cares and strife, In silken or in leathern purse retains A Splendid Shilling. 
