 The counsel's good, a Fox replies, Could we perform what you advise. Think what our ancestors have done — • A line of thieves from son to son ! To us descends the long disgrace, And infamy hath mark'd our race. Though we, like harmless sheep, should...  The British Poets - Pagina 611866Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Mark Loveridge - 1998 - 308 pagine
...harmless sheep'. So the virtue itself would be - again the Mandevillean conclusion - perfectly useless: Whatever hen-roost is decreas'd, We shall be thought...feast. The change shall never be believ'd, A lost good-name is ne'er retrieved. (2, 341) Gay's animals are sometimes endowed with the ability that Ogilby's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 564 pagine
...line of thieves from son to son; To us descends the long disgrace, And infamy hath marked our race. Though we like harmless sheep should feed, Honest in thought, in word, in deed, Whatever henroost is decreas'd, We shall be thought to share the feast. The change will never... | |
 | John Gay - 2003 - 100 pagine
...line of thieves from son to son; To us descends the long disgrace, 40 And infamy hath mark'd our race. Though we, like harmless sheep, should feed, Honest...decreas'd, We shall be thought to share the feast. 45 The change shall never be believ'd, A lost good-name is ne'er retriev'd. Nay then, replys the feeble... | |
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