Poems, Epigrams and Sonnets | ||
CARVING AND GILDING.
“You see,” said our host, as we enter'd his doors,“I have furnish'd my house à la Louis Quatorze.”
“Then I wish,” said a guest, “when you ask us to eat,
You would furnish your board à la Louis Dixhuit;
78
Pray less of your gilding, and more of your carving.”
Poems, Epigrams and Sonnets | ||