 Before you had those timber toes Your love I did allow; But then, you know, you stand upon Another footing now." "O Nelly Gray! O Nelly Gray! For all your jeering speeches, At duty's call I left my legs In Badajos's breaches.  The Comic Poems of Thomas Hood - Side 377av Thomas Hood - 1876 - 518 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1827 - 452 sider
...Nelly Cray ! IB this your love so warm ' The love that loves a scarlet coat. Should be more uniform !" Said she, "I loved a soldier once. For he was blythe...will never have a man With both legs in the grave ! Before you had those timber toes. Your love I did allow, But then, you know, you stand upon Another... | |
 | 1826 - 590 sider
...warm i The love that loves a scarlet coat, " O, Nelly Gray! O, Nelly Gray ! Should be more uniform!" Said she, " I loved a soldier once. For he was blythe...will never have a man With both legs in the grave ! Before you had those timber toes, Your love I did allow, But then, you know, you stand upon Auother... | |
 | 1826 - 570 sider
...Nelly Gray! Is this your love so warm ? The love that loves a scarlet coat, Should be more uniform !" Said she, " I loved a soldier once, For he was blythe...will never have a man With both legs in the grave! Before you had those timber toes, Your love I did allow ; But then, you know, you stand upon Another... | |
 | 1826 - 622 sider
...Nelly Gray ! Is this you love so warm ? The love that loves a scarlet coat, Should be more uniform !" Said she, " I loved a soldier once, For he was blythe and brave ; But 1 will never have a man With both legs in the'grave ! Before you had those timber toes, Your love I... | |
 | 1827 - 334 sider
...loves a scarlet coat, Should be more uniform !" ' Said she, " I loved a soldier once, For he was blylhe and brave ; But I will never have a man With both legs in the grave ! " Before you had those timber toes, Your love I did allow, But then, you know, you stand upon Another... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 sider
...loves a scarlet coat, Should be more uniform! " Said she. " I loved a soldier once, For he was blithe and brave; But I will never have a man With both legs in the grave ! " Before you had those timber toes, Your love I did allow, But then, you know, you stand upon Another... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1847 - 302 sider
...Nelly Gray ! Is this your love so warm ? The love that loves a scarlet coat Should be more uniform ! " Said she, " I loved a soldier once, For he was blythe and brave ; But I will never have a man " Before you had those timber toes, Your love I did allow, But then, you know, you stand upon Another... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1847 - 314 sider
...Nelly Gray ! Is this your love so warm ? The love that loves a scarlet coat Should be more uniform ! " Said she, " I loved a soldier once, For he was blythe and hrave ; But I will never have a man " Before you had those timber toes, Your love I did allow, But... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 308 sider
...Nelly Gray ! Is this your love so warm ? The love that loves a scarlet coat Should be more uniform ! " Said she, " I loved a soldier once, For he was blythe and brave ; " Before you had those timber toes, Your love I did allow, But then, you know, you stand upon Another... | |
 | John Bolton Rogerson - 1852 - 340 sider
...to descend the stairs, I heard him repeating the following words from one of Hood's ballads : — " Before you had those timber toes, Your love I did...then you know you stand upon, Another footing now." " Inhuman villain !" muttered I ; and in the hurry of my descent, I made a false step, and was precipitated... | |
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