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... Magazine of Natural History - Page 4891830Full view - About this book
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
..."FT it has been my lot to mark A proud , conceited , talking spark , With eyes,, that hardly serv'd at most To guard their master 'gainst a post :•...round the world the blade has been To see -whatever could be seen. Returning from his finish'd tour, Grown ten times perter than before ; Whatever word... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...CMERlUCKji OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes, that hnrdly serv'd at most To guard their master 'gainst a post; Yet round the world die blade has beea To see whatever could be seen. Returning from his finish'd tour, Grown ten times... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...twice bruised thee c*an only bind them upfor-- STERNE. CHAP. XII. THE CAMEL10N. OFT it has been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes...round the world the blade has been To see whatever could be seen. Returning from his finish'd tour, Grown ten times perter than before, Whatever word... | |
| Herman Daggett - Readers - 1818 - 300 pages
...6. Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes, that hardly serv'd, at most, To guard their master 'gainst a post: Yet round the world the blade had been, To see whatever could be seen ; . Returning from his finish'd tour, Grown ten times perter... | |
| Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...Chameleon. OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes that hardly serv'd 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 finish'd tour, Grown ten times perter than before ; Whatever word... | |
| John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...walkers, riders, Say, are ye pelicans or spiders ? THE CAMELEON.— MerrieA^ OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud conceited talking spark, With eyes...round the world the blade has been, To see whatever could be seen : Returning from his finished tour, Grown ten times perter than before, Whatever word... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...bruised thee can only bind them up for ever. SxERNB. CHAP. XII. THE CHAMELEON. OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes...round the world the blade has been, To see whatever could be seen. Returning from his fihish'd tour, Grown ten times perter than before, Whatever word... | |
| Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...exposed, has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes that hardly serv'd 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 finish'd tour, Grown ten times perter than before ; Whatever word... | |
| One hundred fables, James Plumptre - 1825 - 306 pages
...mark i A proud, conceited, talking spark, •••-. With eyes, that hardly serVd at most i. j t.. : To guard their master 'gainst a post ; Yet round the world the blade has been ; To see whatever could be seen. ... Returning from his finish'd tour, : Grown ten times perter than before, •..'.... | |
| John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...Chameleon. OPT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes that hardly serv'd at most To guard their master 'gainst a post ; Yet round the world the blade had been To see whatever could be seen. Returning from his finish'd tour, Grown ten times perter than... | |
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