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| Edward Scott Waring - Iran - 1807 - 356 pages
...feet. This circumstantial exactness is admirably ridiculed in the history of Martinus Scriblerus : His eye-balls burn, he wounds the smoking plain, And knots of scarlet riband deck his mane. Yet death his glory clos'd : tho' high in power, Though fottune stnil'd on each... | |
| Joseph Tinker Buckingham - United States - 1809 - 428 pages
...from these gentlemen. He concludes the paragraph, by saying, ' We must not see them loitering ir ' negligently upon the edge of a precipice, without......... His eyeballs burn, he wounds the smoking plain, ^ "" ''' h-! ! And knots of scarlet ribbon deck his mane. MART. SCRIB'. In the last line of this page,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 pages
...minute Dutch painter have been more exact? How inimitably circumstantial is this also of a war-horse ! His eyeballs burn, he wounds the smoking plain, And knots of scarlet riband deck his mane, t Of certain Cudgel-players. They brandish high in air their threat'ning states,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 416 pages
...Dutch painters have been more exact? How inimitably circumstantial is this also of a war-horse ! 3 His eye-balls burn, he wounds the smoking plain, And knots of scarlet ribbon deck his mane. Of certain Cudgel-players : * They brandish high in air their threatning staves, Their hands a woven... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 412 pages
...Dutch painters have been more exact? How inimitably circumstantial is this also of a war-horse ! 3 His eye-balls burn, he wounds the smoking plain, And knots of scarlet ribbon deck his mane. Of certain Cudgel-players : * They brandish high in air their threatning staves, Their hands a woven... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 520 pages
...minute Dutch painter have been more exact ? How inimitably circumstantial is this also of a war-horse ! His eye-balls burn, he wounds the smoking plain, And knots of scarlet ribbon deck his Of certain cudgel-players : They brandish high in air their threatening staves, Their hands a woven... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 518 pages
...minute Dutch painter have been more exact ? How inimitably circumstantial is this also of a war-horse ! His eye-balls burn, he wounds the smoking plain, And knots of scarlet ribbon deck his Of certain cudgel-players : They brandish high in air their threatening staves, Their hands a woven... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 606 pages
...Dutch painter have been more exact ? How inimitably circumstantial is this also of a war-horse ! Jfis eye-balls burn, he wounds the smoking plain, And knots of scarlet ribbon deck his Of certain cudgel-players : They brandish high in air their threatening staves, Their hands a woven... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 pages
...minute Dutch painter have been more exact? How inimitably circumstantial is this also of a war-horse ! His eye-balls burn, he wounds the smoking plain, And knots of scarlet ribbon deck his mane '. 7 Blackm. Job, p. 133.— Warburton. " Pr. Arth. p. 89. ' Anon. Of certain cudgel-players : They... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 pages
...minute Dutch painter have been more exact ? How inimitably circumstantial is this also of a war-horse ! His eyeballs burn, he wounds the smoking plain, And knots of scarlet ribbon deck his mane. t Of certain Cudgel-players. They brandish high in air their threat'ning staves, Their hands a woven... | |
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