 | John Gay - English poetry - 1753 - 282 pages
...Lo.vc. With my Jharp heel I three times mark the ground. And turn me thrice around, around, around. 60 Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a fweet- heart's naine. This This with the loudeft bounce me fore amaz'd, That in a flame of brighteft... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 288 pages
...fharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, aronnd, around. Two hazle nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a fweet-heart's name. This with the loudeft bounce me fore amaz'd, That in a flame of brighteft colour... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Bourne - Christian antiquities - 1777 - 466 pages
...Englifhyftwg Nuts into the Fire. This laft Cuftom is beautifully defcribed by Gay in his Spell: Two hazel Nuts I threw into the Flame, And to each Nut I gave a Sweetheart's Name ! This with the loudeft Bounce me fore amaz'd, That in a Flame of brightejl Colour blaz'd* ; As blaz'd the Nut fo may... | |
 | Charles Vallancey - Ireland - 1786 - 890 pages
...fire. •, ( This laft cuftom, is beautifully described by <3ajf, in his Spell.. . •; .Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a fweetheart's name ; This, with the loudeft bounce, me fore amaz'd, That in a flame of brighteft colour... | |
 | Theocritus (of Syracuse) - 1792 - 242 pages
...tell us, it derived its name — Aapvu, /'. e. A« p urn, Mr. GAY hath happily imitated this paffage; Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave af^weet heart' 's name : This 'witb the loudeft bouuce me fore ama^d, That in aflame of bright eft... | |
 | 1795 - 848 pages
...deteflation of fire. Mr. Gay haï finely imitated this paflage, in his fourth PaitoraJ. Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame. And to each nut I gave a fweetheart's name : This with the loudcft bounce me fore amaz'd. That in a flame of brightefl colour... | |
 | English poetry - 1797 - 420 pages
...sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around. 60 Two ha2el-nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name : This with the loudest bounce me sore ama2'd, That in a flame of brightest colour blas'd. As bla2'd the nut, so may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 512 pages
...With my flwrp heel 1 three times mart the j ground, " And turn me thrice around, around, around." 60 Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a fwee:heart's name ; This with the loadeft bounce me fore amaz'd, That iu a flame of brighteft colour... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 366 pages
...detttet Gay in dem oben angcfuhrte.n Cedicht hin, indent er diq Hnbnelia fagen liijst': Two hazel, nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a fweet- heart's name; This with the loudeft bounce me Core ama/:'d, That in a flame of brighteft colour... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...and bounce ; He gives the bastinado v.'ith his tongue. Sbaki. Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flume, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name ; This with the loudest bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a flame of brightest colour blaz'd. Gay. 3. A boast; a threat:... | |
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Two Hazel-Nuts I threw into the Flame, And to each Nut I gave a Sweet-heart's Name. This with the loudest Bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a Flame of brightest Colour blaz'd. As blaz'd the Nut so may thy Passion grow, For 'twas thy Nut that did so brightly... 
