 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
 | Erroll Sherson - 1926 - 396 pages
...but he was always ready to lend money to the losers, who were not always honest enough to repay him. Liberal Brooks, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit...vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid. — (TICKELL.) He threatened over and over again to resign from the club because he could not get back... | |
 | Erroll Sherson - 1927 - 390 pages
...but he was always ready to lend money to the losers, who were not always honest enough to repay him. Liberal Brooks, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit...a vulgar trade, Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid.—(TICKELL.) He threatened over and over again to resign from the club because he could not get... | |
 | Henry Hobbs - 1937 - 166 pages
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 | 1844
...possible. But the reverend doctor is inex* 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, iYom the Hon. Charles James Foi,j>artridgeRhootinffy to the Hon. John Townshcnd, cruising ?... | |
 | Oscar Sherwin - 1960 - 366 pages
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 | 1960
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 | Charles Graves - 1963 - 256 pages
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