 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1755 - 356 pages
...poverty. This, only this, the rigid law purfues, This, only this, provokes the fnarling mufe. The fober trader at a tatter'd cloak, Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke ; With brifker air the filken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thoufand ways. » Of all the grief... | |
 | 1758 - 352 pages
...poverty. This, only this, the rigid law purfues, This, only this, provokes the fnarling Mufe. The fober trader at a tatter'd cloak, Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke; With brifker air the filken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thoufand ways. • Of all the grief... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1758 - 384 pages
...poverty. This, only this, the rigid law purfues, This, only this, provokes the fnarling Mufe. The fober trader at a tatter'd cloak, Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke ; With brifker air the filken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thoufand ways, a Of all the grief... | |
 | English poetry - 1765 - 396 pages
...poverty. This, only this, the rigid law purfues. This, only this,., provokes the fnarling Mufe. The fober trader at a tatter'd cloak, Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke; With brifker air the filken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thoufand ways. * Of all the griefs... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1765 - 392 pages
...poverty. This, only this, the rigid law purfues, This, only this, provokes the fnarling Mufe. The fober trader at a tatter'd cloak, Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke j With brifker air the filken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thoufand ways. ' Of all the... | |
 | Collection - 1766 - 356 pages
...poverty. This, only this, the rigid law purfues, This, only this, provokes the fnarling Mufe. The fober trader at a tatter'd cloak, Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke; With brifker air the filken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thoufand ways. 2 Of all the griefs... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 294 pages
...poverty. This, only this, the rigid law purfues ; This, only this, provokes the fnarling mufe. The fober trader, at a tatter'd cloak, Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke; With brifker air the filken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thoufand ways. Of all the griefs... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 288 pages
...This, only this, sthe rigid law purfues ; This, only this* p. evokes the fnarling mitfe, The fober trader, at a. tatter'd cloak, Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke -r With brifker air the filken courtiers. gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thoufand ways. Of all the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 412 pages
...timer I. (z) Meteritm pr&bet caufafquejacorum Omnibus hie idemfifada & fcijfa lacerna, &c, The fober Trader at a tatter'd Cloak Wakes from his Dream, and labours for a Joke ; With brifker Air the filken Courtiers gaze, And turn the varied Taunt a thoufand Ways. (a) Of all the Griefs... | |
 | 1782 - 402 pages
...poverty. This, only this, the rigid law purfues, This, only this, provokes the fnarling Mule. The fober trader at a tatter'd cloak, Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke-; With brifkcr air the filken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thotifand ways. • Of all the griefs... | |
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By numbers here from shame or censure free All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues ; This, only this, provokes the snarling muse. The sober trader at a tatter'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke;... 
