 From nature too I take my rule, To shun contempt and ridicule. I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. Can grave and formal pass for wise, When men the solemn owl despise? My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much, must talk in...  The British Poets - Pagina 51866Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | John Gay - 1796 - 284 pagine
...large, Instructs me in a parent's charge. From NATURE too I take my rule, To shun contempt and ridicule. I never, with important air, In conversation overbear....We from the wordy torrent fly : Who listens to the chatt'ring PIE ? Nor would I, with felonious flight, By stealth invade my neighbour's right. B 2 .Rapacious... | |
 | John Gay, Edward Moore - 1800 - 260 pagine
...To shun contempt and ridicule. I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. , Can {jrave and formal pass for wise, When men the solemn owl...We from the wordy torrent fly : Who listens to the chatt'ring pye ? Nor would I, with felonious slight, By stealth invade my neighbour's right. Rapacious... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pagine
...large, Instructs me in a parent's charge. From nature too I took my rule, To shun contempt and ridicule. I never with important air, In conversation overbear. Can grave and formal pass"for wise, When men the solemn owl c'cspis,' ? My tongue within my lips I rein ; For who talks... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pagine
...large, Instructs me in a parent's charge. From nature too I took my rule, To shun contempt and ridicule. I never with important air, In conversation overbear....formal pass for wise, When men the solemn owl despise ? 165 My tongue within my lips I rein ; For who talks much, must talk in vain. We from the wordy torrent... | |
 | John Gay - 1806 - 178 pagine
...Instructs me in a parent's charge. ' From Nature, too, I take my rule, To shun contempt and ridicule. I never, with important air, In conversation overbear....and formal pass for wise, When men the solemn owl desfise •' My tongue within my lips I reio ; For who talks much must talk in vain. We from the wordy... | |
 | John Gay, Thomas Park - 1808 - 322 pagine
...Instructs me in a parent's charge. ' From Nature, too, I take my rale, To slum contempt and ridicule. I never, with important air, In conversation overbear....wordy torrent fly : Who listens to the chattering pye i Nor would I, with felonious slight, By stealth invade my neighbour's right. Rapacious animals we... | |
 | Christopher Anstey, John Anstey - 1808 - 600 pagine
...To shun contempt and ridicule. I never with important air, In conversation overbear; Can grave und formal pass for wise, When men the solemn owl despise;...lips I rein, For who talks much, must talk in vain ; Quae solet assiduos patienter inire labores Me vocat, adque meos sedula suadet apis. Quis cernit... | |
 | John Gay - 1808 - 146 pagine
...ridieule. 1 never with important air in eonversation overbear; 'Jan grave and formal pass for wise, \V hen men the solemn Owl despise ; My tongue within my lips I rein, For who talks mueh must talk in vain ; We from the wordy torrent fly : Wild listens to the ehatt'ring pye ? Xor would... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pagine
...overbear, fan grave anrl formal pa«s for wise, When men the solemn bow despise? My tongue \vithin on's care: This calls the church to deprecate our sin, And hurls the thunder of the laws on gis. chatt'ring )>yc? Xor would I, with felonious flight, By stealth invade my neighbour's right ; Rapacious... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 pagine
...Instructs me in a parent's charge. " From Nature, too, I take uiy rule, To shun contempt and ridicule. I never, with important air, In conversation overbear....pye ? Nor would I. with felonious slight, By stealth > vade my neighbour's right. Rapacious animals we hate : Kites, hawks, and wolves, deserve their fate.... | |
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