 | Francis Grose - 1785 - 206 sider
...DEVIL DRIVER, a parson. See snub devil. DEVIL DRAWER, a miserable painter. DEVIL'S DAUGHTER'S PORTION. Deal, Dover, and Harwich, The devil gave with his...by a codicil to his will, He added Helvoet and the Brili. A saying occasioned by the shameful impositions practised 'by the inhabitants of those places... | |
 | James Caulfield - 1793 - 312 sider
...DEVIL DRIVER, a parfofc. Sec fnub devil. DEVIL DRAWER, a miferable painter. DEVIL'S DAUGHTER'S PORTION, Deal, Dover and Harwich, The devil gave with his daughter...codicil to his will, He added Helvoet and the Brill. A faying occafioned by the fhameful impofitions, practifed by the inhabitants of thofe places, on failors... | |
 | Francis Grose - 1811 - 244 sider
...that he has married the Devil's daughter, and lives with the old folks. DEVIL'S DAUGHTER'S PORTION: Deal, Dove'r, and Harwich, The Devil gave with his daughter in marriage j And, by a codicil to his will, He added Helvoet and the Brill ; a saying occasioned by the shameful... | |
 | Francis Grose, Pierce Egan - 1823 - 342 sider
...DAUGHTER'S PORTION : » Deal, Dover, and Harwich, The Devil gave with his daughter in marriage ; A iid, by a codicil to his will, He added Helvoet and the Brill. a saying occasioned by the shameful impositions practised by the inhabitants of those places on sailors... | |
 | John Wade - 1824 - 258 sider
...Congleton bears; which will presently set the town about his ears, if a stranger happen to mention it. ' D. Deal, Dover, and Harwich, The Devil gave with his daughter in marriage ; And, iiy a codicil to his will, He added Helvoet and the Brill. — Kent. A satirical squib thrown at the... | |
 | 1851 - 582 sider
.... — Wher.e do the following lines come from ? "Deal, Dover, and Harwich. The devil gave with hi-, daughter in marriage ; And, by a codicil to his will, He added Helvoet and the Brill." JHL [Francis Grose, in his Coflcc/inn of Prmerbi, speaks of them as " A satirical squib thrown at the... | |
 | 1851 - 568 sider
...lowing lines come from ? 14 Dc.il, Dover, and Harwich, The devil gave with his daughter in mirrup' And, by a codicil to his will. He added Helvoet and the Drill." JBI [Francis Grose, in his Coffer/inn of fVowJn, f* of them as " A sntiric.il squib thrown... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 478 sider
...French marquis, A yeomen of Kent is worth them all three. Deal, Dover, and Harwich, The Devil gave his daughter in marriage ; And, by a codicil to his will, He added Helvoet and the Brill. LANCASHIRE. Proud Preston, Poor people, High church, And low steeple. If Liverpool's Good Mayor should... | |
 | William Tegg - 1877 - 358 sider
...French marquis, A yeoman of Kent is worth them all three. Deal, Dover, and Harwich, The Devil gave his daughter in marriage ; And, by a codicil to his will, He added Helvoet and the Brill. LANCASHIRE. Proud Preston, Poor people, High church, And low steeple. If Liverpool's good Mayor should... | |
 | George Byng Gattie - 1890 - 362 sider
...Confessor, occasioned the proverb" (Scott's edition of Swift). " Deal, Dover, and Harwich The Devil gave his daughter in marriage ; And, by a codicil to his will, He added Helviot and the Brill." This bit of rough and cutting satire may do equally well perhaps for many other... | |
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DEVIL'S DAUGHTER'S PORTION: Deal, Dover, and Harwich, The Devil gave with his daughter in marriage; And, by a codicil to his will, He added Helvoet and the Brill; a saying occasioned by the shameful impositions practised by the inhabitants of those places,... 
