 | Collection - 1758 - 358 pages
...poft, Yet round the world the blade has been To fee whatever cou'd be feen, Returning from his finifh'd tour, * Grown ten times perter than before ; Whatever...chance to drop, The travell'd fool your mouth will flop, " Sir, if my judgment you'll allow——, " I've feen — and fure I ought to know— So begs... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1765 - 412 pages
...Yet round the world the blade has been To fee whatever could be feen, Returning from his finifli'd tour, Grown ten times perter than before ; Whatever...chance to drop, The travell'd fool your mouth will flop; " Sir, if my judgment you'll allow — *' I've feen — and fure I ought to know" — •» So... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 416 pages
...poft, Yet round the world the blade has been To fee whatever could be feen, Returning from his finifh'd tour, Grown ten times perter than before ; Whatever...chance to drop, The travell'd fool your mouth will flop, *c Sir, if my judgment you'll allow — " I've feen — and fure I ought to know" — ^ So begs... | |
 | Collection - 1766 - 354 pages
...God, Who fiamp'd his image there. The The CAMELION: A FABLE after Monfieur DE LA MOTTE. By the Same. OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking fpark, With eyes, that hardly ferv'd at moil To guard their mafter 'gainft a poft, Vet round the world... | |
 | Thomas Percival - 1781 - 330 pages
...Merrick, and fhews, in a lively and ftriking manner, the folly of pofitivenefs in opinion, THE CAMELEON. OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking fpark, With eyes, that hardly ferv'd at moft To guard their maiter 'gainft a poft, Yet round the world... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...Yet round the world the blade has bean To fee whatever could be feen. \ Returning from his finifh'd tour, Grown ten times perter than before, Whatever...chance to drop, The travell'd fool your mouth will ftop ; " Sir, if my judgment you'll allow — "*' I've feen — and fure I ought to know"— So begs... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...Camelton. OFT has it been my lot to mark A pro-id, conceited, talking fpark, . Retarriug from his fintfh'd tour, Grown ten times perter than before : Whatever...chance to drop, The travell'd fool your mouth will flop — " Sir, if my judgment you'll allow — , I've fecn — and fine I ought to know™ — So... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...Yet round the world the blade has been, To fee whatever could be feen : Returning from his finifii'd tour, Grown ten times perter than before ; Whatever...chance to drop, The travell'd fool your mouth will flop : " Sir, if my judgment you'll allow — " I've feen — and fure I ought to know."— So begs... | |
 | Addison (pseud.) - Anecdotes - 1795 - 616 pages
...they at laft put a period to his fufferings, by ftriking his head off with a hatchet. THE CAMELEON. OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking fpark^ With eyes, that hardly ferv'd at moft To guard their mafter 'gainft a poft ; Yet round the world... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography - 1794 - 738 pages
...May thy Kingdom of Peace and Tmil^ »' cpme, and lajt lot ever, *#* POETR Y. THE CAMELEO N. A FABLE. OFT, has it been my lot to mark, A proud, conceited, talking fpark, With, eyes, that hardly ferv'd at moft To guard their mailer 'gainft a poft; Yet round the world... | |
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OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes that hardly served at most To guard their master 'gainst a post ; Yet round the world the blade has been, To see whatever could be seen. Returning from his... 
