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" The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, .  "
Poems - Page 309
by William Cowper - 1805
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Self-improvement: Chiefly Addressed to the Young...

John Todd - Conduct of life - 1799 - 200 pages
...hails you Tom, or Jack, And proves, by thumping on your back, His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it." You will soon be ashamed to love one for whom you have not a high esteem. Love will only follow esteem....
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

1801 - 574 pages
...that hails you, Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it.' We have heard from very good authority that a corrected and im- : proved copy of these verses is in...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1802 - 364 pages
...The carving and the gilding. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your bacfc How he efteems your merit, Is fuch a friend, that...to bear it. As fimilarity of mind, Or fomething not to"be defined, Firft fixes our attention ; So manners decent and polite, The fame we praftifed at firft...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ...

English poetry - 1802 - 888 pages
...that hails you, Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit. Is such a friend, that one had -need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear il. As similarity of mind, Or something not to be defin'd. First fixes our attention ; So manners decent...
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Poems, tr. by W. Cowper. To which are added some original poems of mr. Cowper

Jeanne Marie Bouvières de la Motte Guyon - 1802 - 158 pages
...that hails you, Tom or Jack, A'ltl proves by thumps upon your back. How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed TO pardon or (o bear it, As similarity of mind, Or something not to be defin'd, Fiist fixes our attention ; So manners...
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Poems,

William Cowper - 1803 - 386 pages
...timber, lead, and ftone, An architect requires alone To finifh a fine building — The palace were but half complete, If he could poffibly forget The carving...attention; So manners decent and polite, The fame we practifed at firft fight, Muft fave it from declenfion. Some act upon this prudent plan, " Say little...
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Poems,

William Cowper - 1803 - 388 pages
...That favour much of common place, And all the world admits them. The palace were but half complete, Jf he could poffibly forget The carving and the gilding....attention ; So manners decent and polite, The fame we pra&ifed at firft fight, Muft fave it from declenfion. Some act upon this prudent plan, " Say little...
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The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper: With an ..., Volume 1

William Hayley - 1803 - 348 pages
...xxvi. The man who hails you Tom, or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back His fenfe of your great merit, Is fuch a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon, or to bear it. XXvII. Some friends make this their prudent planSay little, and hear all you can, Safe policy, but...
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Poems, tr. by W. Cowper. To which are added some original poems of mr. Cowper

Jeanne Marie Bouvières de la Motte Guyon - 1803 - 164 pages
...that hails you, Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it. As similarity of mind, Or something not to be defin'd, First fixes our attention; So manners decent and...
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The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, Esqr: With an ..., Volume 1

William Hayley - Authors, English - 1803 - 454 pages
...who hails you Tom or Jack? And proves by thumping on your back His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed. To par don, or to bear itSome. VARIATIONS. XXIV.— 3. To fini»ha fine building. 5. If he could possibly...
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