 | John Timbs - 1872 - Počet stránok 646
...One of our poets has given a necessary caution, especially to strangers, in the following lines : — Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from home ; Some fiery fop with new commission vain, Who sleeps on brambles 'till he kills his man ; Some frolic... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - Počet stránok 524
...its wings ; On all thy hours security shall smile, And bless thine evening walk and morning toil. " Prepare for death, if here at night you roam. And sign your will before you sup from home. Some fiery fop, with new commission vain, Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man; Some frolic... | |
 | Juvenal - 1873 - Počet stránok 274
...tenant of the house was obliged to pay twice the amount of the damage. ' Silicem ' means ' the pavement. 274. Adeo tot fata] 'So surely do as many deaths await...open on that night while you are passing.' ' Adeo ' gives strength to the sentence. 279. Dai poenas,] He suffers torture if he has not had the luck to... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - Počet stránok 782
...wings ; On all thy nonrs security shall smile. And bless thine evening walk and morning toil. '• Then, then, ye ocean-warriors ! Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your Some fiery fop, with new commission vain, Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man ; Some frolic... | |
 | 1878 - Počet stránok 596
...him, and seated him between us in the pit.' In Johnson's ' London,' published in 1738, we read : — ' Prepare for death if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from home, Some fiery fop, with new commission vain, Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man. Some foolish... | |
 | Gilbert Elliot Earl of Minto - 1880 - Počet stránok 1048
...from Dr. Johnson's " London," we may infer that the old Mohock spirit was among them as late as 1735: Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from home, Some fiery fop, with new commission vain, Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man — Some frolic... | |
 | Sir William Purdie Treloar (bart.) - 1881 - Počet stránok 152
...serious danger, nor were robberies infrequent. Still, there was a great change since Johnson wrote : — Prepare for death if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from home ; Some fiery fop, with new commission vain Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man ; Some frolic... | |
 | Walter Besant - 1892 - Počet stránok 538
...strengthening the police : As for the dangers of venturing out after dark, they are summed up by Jonson : " Prepare for death if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you step from home. Some fiery fop, with new commission vain, Who sleeps in brambles till he kills his... | |
 | 1894 - Počet stránok 756
...cannot bear a French metropolis. The insecure state of the streets is also borne witness to as follows : Prepare for death if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from home. But, to return to Pall Mall, we find Gay praising it in his ." Trivia," or "Art of Walking the Streets... | |
 | 1894 - Počet stránok 858
...bear a French metropolis. The insecure state of the streets is also home witness to as follows : — Prepare for death If here at night you roam, And sign your will before you »up from home. But to return to Pall Mall, we find Gray praising it in his "Trivia," or '• Art of... | |
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Prepare for death if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from home. 
