 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 442 pages
...fled. Codrus f had but one bed, so short to boot, That his short wife's short legs hung dangling out ; His cupboard's head six earthen pitchers graced, Beneath them was his trusty tankard placed ; And, to support this noble plate, there lay A bending Chiron cast from honest clay ; His few Greek... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 436 pages
...fled. Codrus t had but one bed, so short to boot, That his short wife's short legs hung dangling out; His cupboard's head six earthen pitchers graced, Beneath them was his trusty tankard placed ; And, to support this noble plate, there lay A bending Chiron cast from honest clay ; His few Greek... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 444 pages
...fled. Codrust had but one bed, so short to boot, That his short wife's short legs hung dangling out ; His cupboard's head six earthen pitchers graced, Beneath them was his trusty tankard placed ; And, to support this noble plate, there lay A bending Chiron cast from honest clay ; His few Greek... | |
 | 1849 - 468 pages
...— " Codrus had but one bed, so short to boot, That his short wife's short legs hang dangling ont; His cupboard's head six earthen pitchers graced, Beneath them was his trusty tankard placed. And to support this noble plate, there lay A bended chiron cast from honest clay ; His few Greek books... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...Cojpa, %c. Codrus had but onebed, so short to lout, That his short wife' a short legs hung dangling out. His cupboard's head six earthen pitchers graced, Beneath them was his trusty tankard placed ; And to support this nobte plate there lay A bending Chiron, cast from honest elay. His few Greek... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - 1850 - 478 pages
...From these quotations, it appears probable that pitchers and large pots were usually made of earth or leather ; while the cups or dishes, out of which the...graced, Beneath them was his trusty tankard placed." — Dryden's Juv. In glancing over my own collection, I find there are comparatively few specimens... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pages
...&c. " Codrus had but one bed, so short to boot, That his short wife's short legs hung dangling out. His cupboard's head six earthen pitchers graced, Beneath them was his trusty tankard placed ; And to support this noble plate, there lay A bending Chiron, cast from honest clay. His few Greek... | |
 | Robert Nares - 1859 - 502 pages
...; lie gave him also a cupbonl of plate, valued at ¡20000 crowns. ffovfir* Familiar Letter*, 1650. His cupboard's head six earthen pitchers graced, Beneath them was his trusty tankard placed. Drydsn's Juv. fCUPBOARD-LOVE. Interested love. A cupboard lone is seldom true, A love sincere is found... | |
 | Robert Nares - 1867 - 500 pages
...him also a cupburd of plate, valued at 20000 crowns, Hovcll't Familiar Letlrrt, 1650. His eupboerfs head six earthen pitchers graced, Beneath them was his trusty tankard placed. lire/lira's JUT. fCUPBOARD-LOVE. Interested love. A cupboard love is seldom true, A love sincere is... | |
 | Annie Trumbull Slosson - 1878 - 286 pages
...fall, And some by aromatic splinters die ;' " and in his translation of Juvenal occurs the passage : ' His cupboard's head six earthen pitchers graced. Beneath them was his trusty tankard placed.' " Crock, from which comes our word crockery, was always, I believe, an earthen vessel. It is spelled... | |
| |
Codrus t had but one bed, so short to boot, That his short wife's short legs hung dangling out; His cupboard's head six earthen pitchers graced, Beneath them was his trusty tankard placed ; And, to support this noble plate, there lay A bending Chiron... 
