 At a dinner so various, at such a repast, Who'd not be a glutton, and stick to the last? Here, waiter ! more wine, let me sit while I'm able, Till all my companions sink under the table; Then, with chaos and blunders encircling my head, Let me ponder,...  The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ... - Page 1161778Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1919 - 110 pages
...Here, waiter, more wine! let me sit while I'm able, Till all my companions sink under the table; 20 Then, with chaos and blunders encircling my head,...Here lies the good dean, reunited to earth, Who mixt reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt, 25 At least... | |
 | Kathleen Winifred Campbell - 1926 - 224 pages
...stick to the last : Here, waiter, more wine, let me sit while I'm able, 'Till all my companions sink under the table ; Then with chaos and blunders encircling...Here lies the good Dean, reunited to earth, Who mixt reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth : If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt, At least,... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 pages
...stick to the last? Here, waiter, more wine, let me sit while I'm able, Till all my companions sink w; Her h , niiv'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 930 pages
...Till all my companions sink under the table ; Then, with chaos and blunders encircling my head, 21 LES TURNED AN EVENING SCENE ON THE SAME SUBJECT Up! up! my friend, a Dean,4 reunited to earth, Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth. If he had any faults,... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...stick to the last: Here, waiter! more wine, let me sit while I 'm able, Till all my companions sink HAD we but world enough, and time, This coyness,...and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ga mixed reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt, 25... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 pages
...stick to the last: Here, waiter, more wine, let me sit while I'm able, "Till all my companions sink under the table; Then with chaos and blunders encircling...Let me ponder, and tell what I think of the dead.' The members of the club are characterised in a poetical strain of panegyric or delicate satire, in... | |
 | Eric McLuhan - 1997 - 366 pages
...Compare Goldsmith: Here, waiter, more wine, let me sit while I'm able, Till all my companions sink under the table; Then with chaos and blunders encircling...head, Let me ponder and tell what I think of the dead. (Complete Works, IV, 353, lines 19-22) Joyce's verses form an extended sonnet: each line of the octet... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 pages
...stick to the last ? Here, waiter ! more wine, let me sit while I'm able, Till all my companions sink under the table; Then, with chaos and blunders encircling...dead. Here lies the good Dean, re-united to earth, Who mixed reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt, At... | |
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