But wherefore one's age be revealing ? Leave that to the Registry books. A man is as old as he's feeling ; A woman, as old as she looks... London Society - Page 20redigeeritud poolt - 1870Full view - About this book
| Mortimer Collins - 1871 - 208 lehte
...fifty He seldom breaks into his nights, And is apt to be studiously thrifty Of violent delights. IV But wherefore one's age be revealing ? Leave that...young ' — for this reason,' They cannot grow old. SONG BY THE RIVER. SWEET, sweet, with the fairy feet, Hasten down to the river-side, Where the lilies... | |
| Mortimer Collins - 1871 - 206 lehte
...fifty He seldom breaks into his nights, And is apt to be studiously thrifty Of violent delights. IV But wherefore one's age be revealing ? Leave that...truths should be told : ' Whom the gods love, die young'—for this reason, 1 They cannot grow old. SONG BY THE RIVER. SWEET, sweet, with the fairy feet,... | |
| Mortimer Collins - 1871 - 214 lehte
...fifty He seldom breaks into his nights, And is apt to be studiously thrifty Of violent delights. IV But wherefore one's age be revealing ? Leave that...festival season Tis fit that great truths should be told : I ' Whom the gods love, die young ' — for this reason,' They cannot grow old. SONG BY THE RIVER.... | |
| 1877 - 832 lehte
...which date he wasattaining what in most cases are reckoned years of discretion, being twentyeight. But wherefore one's age be revealing? Leave that to...is as old as he's feeling ; A woman as old as she looki. * * * . # * Whom the gods love, die young— for this reason They cannot grow old. The beautiful... | |
| University magazine - 1877 - 810 lehte
...which date he was attaining what in most cases are reckoned years of discretion, being twentyeight. But wherefore one's age be revealing? Leave that to...is as old as he's feeling ; A woman as old as she looki. * # + * * Whom the gods love, die young — for this reason They cannot grow old. The beautiful... | |
| Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1877 - 192 lehte
...The melancholy news that we are old. But wherefore our Age be revealing ? Leave that to the Eegistry books ; A man is as old as he's feeling, A woman as old as she looks ! Mortimer Collins. ON DEAN SWIFT'S LEGACY. He left to Ireland all he had To build a house for fools... | |
| 1909 - 448 lehte
...public reference to an interval so widely dividing girlhood from matronage : — Why should we our age be revealing ? Leave that to the registry books...old as he's feeling, A woman as old as she looks. . It is distinctly noticeable that in a general way waitresses carry their age much more serenely than... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - 1915 - 150 lehte
...Old Hecuba young Helen. W. COWPER (from the Greek Anthology). The Unknown Quantity O WHEREFORE our age be revealing ? Leave that to the registry books ! A man is as old as he 's feeling, A woman as old as she looks. MORTIMER COLLINS. Celia CEIIA, we know, is sixty-five,... | |
| Walter Jerrold - 1926 - 264 lehte
...wonder the debate fell dead 'Neath such a constant fire of lead. How OLD ARE You ? O wherefore our age be revealing ? Leave that to the registry books...old as he's feeling, A woman as old as she looks. To A FRIEND ON RECEIVING A BRACE OF WOODCOCKS. My thanks I'll no longer delay For birds which you've... | |
| Eve Merriam - 1983 - 68 lehte
...cartwheel-brimmed hat and enormous sunglasses.) . . Because, as we know from the Book of Great Quotations, "a man is as old as he's feeling, a woman as old as she looks". Mortimer Collins, eighteen twenty-seven, eighteen seventy-six. WILMA. How can she see out of those?... | |
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