I've bought the best champagne from Brooks. From liberal Brooks, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit, and a distant bill. Who, nursed in clubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid. The North American Review - Page 68edited by - 1848Full view - About this book
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1867 - 702 pages
...wine-merchant and money-lender, described by Tickell as— • Liberal Brookes, whose speculative .-kill. I« hasty credit, and a distant bill ; Who. nursed In...vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid.' The Club was removed in 1778 from Pall Mall to St James's Street, but it did not answer well enough... | |
 | 1867 - 646 pages
...then taken by Brookes, a wine-merchant and money-lender, described by Tickell as— ' Liberal Brookes, whose speculative skill, .Is hasty credit, and a distant bill ; Who. nursed in Ciaba, disdains a rotgar trade, Exulte to trust, and blushes to be paid.' The Club was removed in 1778... | |
 | 1868 - 668 pages
...his plate, his cooks, And know I've brought the best champagne from Rrookes ; From liberal Rrookes, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit and a distant...clubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blutlici to be paid." Ifr. Peter Cunningham, in his London Handbook, gives some of the singular rules... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1870 - 454 pages
...not his plate, his cooks, And know I've bought the best champagne from Brookes, From liberal Brookes, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit and a distant...vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid. On that auspicious night, supremely graced With chosen guests, the pride of liberal taste ; Not in... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 pages
...his plate, his cooks, And know, I've brought the best champagne from Brookes, From liberal Brookes, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit and a distant...vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid. From Pall Mall Brookes's Club removed to No. 60, on the west side of St. James's-street, where a handsome... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 pages
...his plate, his cooks, And know, I've brought the best champagne from Brookes, From liberal Brookes, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit and a distant...vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid. From Pall Mall Brookes's Club removed to No. 60, on the west side of St. James's-street, where a handsome... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1873 - 486 pages
...lures,* we cannot make up our minds to con* Brookes was equally accommodating: — "From liberal Brookes, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit and a distant...vulgar trade, Exults to trust and blushes to be paid." Verses, From the Hon. Charles James Fox t partridge-shooting, to the Han. John Townshend, cruising;... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1874 - 494 pages
...we cannot make up our minds to con* Brookes was equally accommodating : — " From liberal Brookes, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit and a distant...vulgar trade, Exults to trust and blushes to be paid." Verses, From the Hon. Charles James Fox, partridge-shooting, to tile Hon. John T,iwnshcnd, eruising... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 pages
...character of Brooks: • And know, I've bought the best Champagne from Brooks ; From liberal Brooka, ple of policy pointed out this power as a natural...every sort of amicable office. But the cabinet counc Nothing could be more convenient for a man of Sheridan's habit* than so indulgent a creditor Sheridan... | |
 | Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1879 - 352 pages
...was described by a contemporary versifier, who had perhaps victimized him, as ' ' Liberal Brookes, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit and a distant...bill ; Who, nursed in clubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Exalts and trusts, and blushes to be paid." Among the eminent personages who were members of the club... | |
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