 | Jonathan Swift - 1866 - 440 halaman
...the newspapers we're told ? Threescore, I think, is pretty high; 'Twas time in conscience he should die ! This world he cumber'd long enough; He burnt his candle to the snuff; And that's the reason, some folks think, He left behind so great a stink. Behold his funeral... | |
 | Metrical epitaphs - 1868 - 266 halaman
...newspapers we're told ? Three-score, I think, is pretty high ; 'Twas time, in conscience, he should die! This world he cumber'd long enough, He burnt his candle to the snuff; And that's the reason, some folks think, He left behind so great a stink. Behold, his funeral... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1879 - 558 halaman
...the newspapers we're told ? Threescore, I think, is pretty high ; 'Twas time in conscience he should die ! This world he cumber'd long enough ; He burnt his candle to the snuff; And that's the reason, some folks think, He left behind so great a stink. Behold his funeral... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 halaman
...the newspapers we're told ? Threescore, I think, is pretty high ; 'Twas time in conscience he should die! This world he cumber'd long enough ; He burnt his candle to the snuff; And that's the reason some folks think, He left behind so great a stink. Behold his funeral... | |
 | Austin Clarke - 1995 - 422 halaman
...the news-papers we're told? Threescore, I think, is pretty high; 'Twas time in conscience he should die. This world he cumber'd long enough; He burnt his candle to the snuff; And that's the reason, some folks think, He left behind so great a stink. Behold his funeral... | |
 | David North - 2004 - 161 halaman
...Grace! impossible! what, dead? Of old age too, and in his bed!... 'Twas time in conscience he should die! This world he cumber'd long enough; He burnt his candle to the snuff; And that's the reason, some folks think, He left behind so great a stink." Jonathan Swift, from... | |
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He'd wifh to fleep a little longer. And could he be indeed fo old As by the news-papers we're told ? Threefcore, I think, is pretty high ; 'Twas time in confcience he fhould die. This world he cumber'd long enough ; He burnt his candle to the fnuff; And... 
