 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
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 454 pages
...shall send, if not his plate, his cooks, And, know, I've bought the best champagne from Brooks. From liberal Brooks, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit,...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 Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 464 pages
...shall send, if not his plate, his cooks, And, know, I've bought the best champagne from Brooks. From liberal Brooks, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit,...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... | |
 | Lewis Melville, Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1906 - 398 pages
...reckoning if he does not sup at the Young Club. " No member to hold a faro bank." From liberal Brookes, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit and a distant...bill ; Who, nursed in clubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Kxiiits to trust, and blushes to be paid. Both clubs, although more or less instituted for the purpose... | |
 | Brooks's Club, London - 1907 - 340 pages
...whist." Under such circumstances it is, perhaps, not surprising that, after some eight years, Brooks " Who nursed in clubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid," retired from the Mastership of the Club and died in poverty, 1782.* * There is a tradition that, in... | |
 | Ralph Nevill - 1911 - 356 pages
...individual. He is described by Tickell, in a copy of verses addressed to Sheridan, as " Liberal Brookes, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit and a distant...trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid.'" It may be added that, as a consequence of the above-mentioned diffidence, Brooks died a poor man in... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1911 - 524 pages
...Brooks. The present house was built on the site of the old one in 1778, and not long afterwards Brooks, " Who, nursed in clubs, disdains a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid," retired from the management, and, not unnaturally, died poor. The Managers of Brooks's have courteously... | |
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