 | 1891 - 576 sider
...flew up in the scales, Though balanced by only some tenpenny nails ! My Lord and my Lady went up in full sail, When a Bee chanced to light on the opposite scale ! An Attorney, ten Lawers, two Courtiers, one Earl, Three Councillors, with wigs full of powder and... | |
 | Henry Beebee Carrington - 1894 - 448 sider
...plough; A sword with gilt trappings rose up in the scale, Though balanced by only a tenpenny nail ; A lord and a lady went up at full sail When a bee chanced to light on the opposite scale. PAR* tfi. SCHOOL-ROOM ECHOES AtiD HltfTS. 345 Ten doctors, ten lawyers, two courtiers, one ear] Ten... | |
 | Mary Jane Holmes - 1895 - 488 sider
...the prayer of the penitent thief, with the result that the head flew up and the prayer down. Then ' A lord and a lady went up at full sail, When a bee chanced to light in the opposite scale.' Then at last, ' The whole world was bowled in at the grate, With the soul of... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 520 sider
...ten-penny nail ; A shield and a helmet, a buckler and spear, Weighed less than a widow's uncrystallized tear. A lord and a lady went up at full sail, When...balance and swinging from thence, Weighed less than a few grains of candor and sense ; A first-water diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than one good potato... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 454 sider
...ten-penny nail ; A shield and a helmet, a buckler and spear, Weighed less than a widow's uncrystallized tear. A lord and a lady went up at full sail, When...balance and swinging from thence, Weighed less than a few grains of candor and sense ; A first-water diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than one good potato... | |
 | Susan Warner - 1901 - 530 sider
...counterbalance : it would not do. Things have their due weight only in the philosopher's apparatus, where "A lord and a lady went up at full sail, When a bee chanced to light on the opposite scale." Late in October my father left home for some time on business, and came back, as we thought, in remarkably... | |
 | 1905 - 398 sider
...tenpenny nail; A shield and a helmet, a buckler and spear, Weighed less than a widow's uncrystallized tear. A lord and a lady went up at full sail, When...balance and swinging from thence, Weighed less than a few grains of candor and sense; A first-water diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than one good potato... | |
 | 1905 - 408 sider
...nail; A shield and a helmet, a buckler and spear, Weighed less than a widow's uncrystallized tear. When a bee chanced to light on the opposite scale;...balance and swinging from thence, Weighed less than a few grains of candor and sense; A first-water diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than one good potato... | |
 | 1905 - 404 sider
...and spear, Weighed less than a widow's uncrystallized tear. A lord and a lady went up at full sail, Ten doctors, ten lawyers, two courtiers, one earl,...balance and swinging from thence, Weighed less than a few grains of candor and sense; A first-water diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than one good potato... | |
 | 1906 - 220 sider
...ten-penny nail; A shield and a helmet, a buckler and spear, Weighed less than a widow's uncrystallized tear. A lord and a lady went up at full sail, When...balance and swinging from thence, Weighed less than a few grains of candor and sense ; A first-water diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than one good potato... | |
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A lord and a lady went up at full sail, When a bee chanced to light on the opposite scale; Ten doctors, ten lawyers, two courtiers, one earl, Ten counsellors... 
