 That lies in old wood like a hare in her form ; With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm a deathwatch ; Because like a watch it always cries click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick : For,...  Insect Miscellanies - Página 97por James Rennie - 1831 - 414 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 618 páginas
...wood-worm, That lies in old wood like a hare in her form; With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm...always cries click; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick: For, as sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click when it... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 614 páginas
...wood-worm, That lies in old wood like a hare in her form; With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm...always cries click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick : For, as sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click when it... | |
 | 1819 - 352 páginas
...teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chamber-maids christen this worm a death watch i Because like a watch it always cries click, Then woe...are sick ; For sure as a gun they will give up the ghont, If the maggot cries click when it seratches the post." The power of superstition over the human... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 822 páginas
...known satirist sports in the following lines : " A wood-worm With teeth or with claws, it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm...Because like a watch it always cries click ; Then «'oe be to those in the house who are sick, For sure as a gnn they will give up the ghost, If the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 páginas
...Wood-worm, That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form ; With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm...always cries Click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick; For as sure as a gun they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries Click when it scratches... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1823 - 556 páginas
...wood-worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form : With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm...always' cries click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick ! For, sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click, when it... | |
 | Henry Teonge - 1825 - 364 páginas
...wood worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form, With teeth or with claws, it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm...always cries click. Then woe be to those in the house who are sick ; For as sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click, when it... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 416 páginas
...lies in old wood, like a bare in he^fozm; With teeth, or with claws, it will bite or will icratcli ; And chambermaids christen this worm a death-watch...Because, like a watch, it always cries click ; Then wo be to those in the house who are sick ; For sure as a gun they will give up the ghost If the maggot... | |
 | 1832 - 424 páginas
...A wood worm Tbat lies in old wood, like a hare In her form, With teeth or with claws, it will bite, It will scratch ; And chambermaids christen this worm...Because, like a watch, it always cries click. Then woe he to those in the house that are sick 1 For, surs as a gun, the; will give up the ghost, If the maggot... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 852 páginas
...teeth or with claws, it will bite or will scratch, And chambermaids christen this worm ж death watch : Because like a watch it always cries click : Then woe be to those in the house who are sick ; For as sure as a 'gun they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click, when it... | |
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