 | English poets - 1801 - 446 pages
...house, " had, within seven years after his marriage, pur" chased a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a " sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought " himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the * bag. Sax. (from whence daggle or draggle), any thing pendent,... | |
 | English poetry - 1802 - 888 pages
...house, had, with' in seven years after his marringe, ' purchased a mattress or flock bed, ' and thereto a sack of chaff to rest ' his head upon, he thought himself ' to be as well lodged as the lord of ' the town ; who, peradventure, ' lay seldom in a bed of down... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Africa - 1804 - 694 pages
...it were so that our fathers, or the good man of the house, had a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the lown, so well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were... | |
 | Ely Bates - Christian ethics - 1806 - 445 pages
...it were so that the father, or the good man of the house, had a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town : so well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 480 pages
...If it were so, that the father or the good-man of the house had a mattrass or flock-bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town : So well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were... | |
 | Charles Buck - Children - 1808 - 374 pages
...bolster. If it were so that the father or pood man of the house had a mattress or flock bed, and sheets, a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town. So well were they contented, that pillows (said they)... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 362 pages
...bolster. If it were so that the father or pood man of the house had a mattress or flock bed, and sheets, a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town. So well were they contented, that pillows (said they)... | |
 | George Ellis - English literature - 1811 - 466 pages
...house, " had, within seven years after his marriage, pur" chased a mattress or flock bed, and thereto a " sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought " himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the * baj. Sax. (from whence daggle or draggle) any thing pendent,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1813 - 536 pages
...woman in childbed ; and that if a man in seven years after marriage could purchase a flock.bed, and a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself as well lodged as the lord of the town ; who peradventure lay seldom on a bed entirely of feathers. Another thing they remarked, was change... | |
 | Thomas Downes Wilmot Dearn - Kent (England) - 1814 - 382 pages
...it were so, that the lather, or the good man of the house, had a mattrass or flock bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the Lord of the town ; so well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were... | |
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... and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the lown, so well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in child-bed. 
