 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 476 páginas
...hundred pleafing rtorics. With ail the turns of Whigs and Tories 1 Was cheerful to his dying day ; • And friends would let him have his way. " As for his...verfe or prole, " I own myfelf no judge of thofe. Nor can I tell what critics thought them ; But this I know, all people lœught them,' As with a moral... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 386 páginas
...laugh'd to hear an idiot quote A verse from Horace learn'd by rote. " He knew a hundred pleasing stories, With all the turns of whigs and tories : Was cheerful to his dying day ; And friends would let him have his way. " He gave the little wealth he had To build a house... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 558 páginas
...laugh'd to hear an idiot quote A verse from Horace learn'd by rote. " He knew a hundred pleasing stories, With all the turns of whigs and tories : Was cheerful to his dying day ; And friends would let him have his way. " He gave the little wealth he had To build a house... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 páginas
...to a loyal ear :But— not one sermon, you may swear. — • He knew an hundred pleasant stories, .With all the turns of Whigs and Tories ; Was cheerful to his dying day, And friends would let him have his way. As for his Works in verse or prose, I own myseif... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 páginas
...offensive to a loyal ear : — but — not one sermon you may swear. He knew a hundred pleasing stories, with all the turns of Whigs and Tories: was cheerful...friends would let him have his way. As for his works in verse and prose, I own myself no judge of those. Nor can I tell what critics thought them ; but this... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 832 páginas
...laugh'd to hear an idiot quote A verse from Horace learn'd by rote. " He knew a hundred pleasing stories, With all the turns of whigs and tories : Was cheerful to his dying day ; And friends would let him have his waj, " He gave the little wealth he had To build a house... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 534 páginas
...to hear an idiot quote A verse from Horace learn'd by rote. ' " He knew a hundred pleasing stories, With all the turns of whigs and tories : Was cheerful to his dying day ; And friends would let him have his way. " He gave the little wealth he had To build ah... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
...an hundred pleasing stories, With all the turns of Whi^s and Tories : Was cheerful to his dying day, And friends would let him have his way. As for his works in verse or prose, I own myself no judge of those ; Now can I tell what critics thought them, But this... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 páginas
...to a loyal ear : — But — not one sermon, you may swear." " He knew an hundred pleasing stories, With all the turns of Whigs and Tories : Was cheerful to his dying day ; And friends would let him have his way. " As for his works in verse or prose, I own myself... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 268 páginas
...loyal ear : — But — not one sermon, you may swear.' — ' He knew an hundred pleasant stories, With all the turns of Whigs and Tories ; Was cheerful to his dying day, And friends would let him have his way. As for his works in verse or prose, I own myself... | |
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He knew a hundred pleasant stories, With all the turns of Whigs and Tories: Was cheerful to his dying day, And friends would let him have his way. 'He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch,... 
