Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammered and rolled ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, bartered, bought, and sold, Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled : Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old To... The Lure of the City: A Book for Young Men - Página 249por David James Burrell - 1908 - 284 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1841 - 578 páginas
...ought to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, " Because her own Leg had killed her !" HER MORAL. Gold) Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammer'd, and roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen,... | |
| 1842 - 376 páginas
...to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, " Because her own Leg had killed her !" ?i)cr Jttoral. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammer'd, and roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen,... | |
| 1876 - 818 páginas
...it very well, in his own peculiar way, when he wrote — " Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and y How, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammered and rolled,...Heavy to get and light to hold ; Hoarded, bartered, borrowed, and doled ; Spurn ed by the young, but hugged by the old To the very verge of the churchyard... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 páginas
...ought to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, " Because her own Leg had killed her !" HER MORAL. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammer'd, and roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen,... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 páginas
...ought to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, " Because her own Leg had killed her !" HER MORAL. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammer'd, and roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen,... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 páginas
...ought to be, And they brought it in as Felo de Se, " Because her own Leg had killed her !" HEJl MORAL. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammer'd, and roll'd ; Heavy to get, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen,... | |
| 1847 - 522 páginas
...moral qualities, form the motive influence of the unions. The following moral closes the poem : — " Gold, gold, gold, gold ! Bright and yellow, hard and...borrowed, squandered, doled ; Spurned by the young, and hugged by the old, To the very verge of the church-yard mould ; Price of many a crime untold ;... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1847 - 752 páginas
...naught were naughty.' The * moral' of one's living and dying for gold is thus forcibly summed up : •GOLD! Gold! Gold! Gold ! Bright and yellow, hard and cold, Molten, graven, hammer'd, and roll M ; Heavy to gt't, and light to hold ; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, Stolen,... | |
| Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 páginas
...Heavy to get, and light to hold; Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold ; Stolen, borrow'd, squander'd, doled; Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old, To the very verge of the churchyard mould ; Price of many a crime untold, Gold! gold! gold! gold I Good or bad a thousand fold. How widely... | |
| 1848 - 588 páginas
...avaricious man outlives all other loves : — Gold, gold, gold, Hoarded, bartered, bought and sold, Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould. Gold did little for the miser in life, still less will it accomplish for him at death — it... | |
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