 | Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 250 páginas
...her Majesty allows him grains. Though 'tis confest, that those who ever saw His poems,thinkthemall not worth a STRAW ! Thrice happy Duck, employed in threshing stubble, Thy toil is lessen'd, and thy profits double. XXVI. THE PLACE OF THE DAMNED. All folks who pretend to religion... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 560 páginas
...her majesty allows him grains. Though 'tis confess'd, that those who ever saw His poems, think them all not worth a straw. Thrice happy Duck, employed...stubble ! Thy toil is lessened, and thy profits double. Tn 1733 the queen made him one of the yeomen of the guards, from which situation, by a singular, and,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 562 páginas
...her majesty allows him grains. Though 'tis confess'd, that those who ever saw His poems, think them all not worth a straw. Thrice happy Duck, employed...stubble ! Thy toil is lessened, and thy profits double. In 1733 the queen made him one of the yeomen of th£ guards, from which situation, by a singular, and,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 534 páginas
...her majesty allows him grains : Though 'tis confest, that those, who ever saw His poems, think them all not worth a straw ! Thrice happy Duck, employed in threshing stubble, Thy toil is lessen'd, and thy profits double. THE LADY'S DRESSING-ROOM.* 1730. • • . * •' FIVE hours (and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 524 páginas
...her majesty allows him grains : Though 'tis confest, that those, who ever saw His poems, think them all not worth a straw ! Thrice happy Duck, employed in threshing stubble, Thy toil is lessen' d, and thy profits double. THE LADY'S DRESSING-ROOM. * 1730. " • i . |\• ' * f FIVE hours... | |
 | 1826 - 384 páginas
...her majesty allows him grains ; Tho' 'tis confess'd, that those who ever saw His poems, think them all not worth a straw. Thrice happy Duck ! employed in threshing stubble, Thy toil is lessen'd, and thy profits double. Duck was afterwards admitted Into Orders, had the living of Fyfleet,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 424 páginas
...After the first crop is off, they plow in the wheat stubble. Mortimer's Husbandry. Thrice happy Dick employed in threshing stubble, Thy toil is lessened, and thy profits double. Swift. STUB'BORN, a#. ) Derived by Minshew STUB'BORNLY, adv. > from stoutborn ; referrSTUB'BORNNESS,... | |
 | John Jones - 1831 - 356 páginas
...which her Majesty allows him grains; Tho" 'tis confest, that those who ever saw His poems, think them all not worth a straw. Thrice happy Duck, employed in threshing stubble ! Thy toil is lessen 'd, and thy profits double." The ill-will that called forth these lines was probably towards... | |
 | John Jones - 1831 - 360 páginas
...which her Majesty allows him grains; Tho' 'tis confest, that those who ever saw His poems, think them all not worth a straw. Thrice happy Duck, employed in threshing stubble ! Thy toil is lessen'd, and thy profits double." The ill-will that called forth these lines was probably towards... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 páginas
...4 The thresher Duck could o'er the queen prevail ; The proverb says — " No fence against a flau." From threshing corn, he turns to thresh his brains,...chastisement, such as it was, merited. For, though few nieu had ever less pretensions to poetical genius than Duck, yet the court-party actually set him up... | |
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From threshing corn, he turns to thresh his brains, For which her majesty allows him grains ; Though 'tis confest, that those who ever saw His poems, think 'em all not worth a straw. Thrice happy Duck ! employed in threshing stubble ! Thy toil is lessened,... 
