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" Poor Elkanah, all other changes past, For bread in Smithfield dragons hiss'd at last, Spit streams of fire to make the butchers gape, And found his manners suited to his shape. "
The General Biographical Dictionary - Page 354
by Alexander Chalmers - 1816
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The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts: In Three Volumes, Volume 1

Edward Young - 1802 - 420 pages
...ELKENAH, why not in you ? Poor ELKENAH, all other changes past, For bread in Smithfield dragons hist at last, Spit streams of fire to make the butchers gape, And found his manners suited to his shape : Such is the fate of talents misapply 'd ; So liv'd your Prototype ; and so he dy'd. Th' abandon'd...
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

1803 - 468 pages
...in Eikpnsh, why not in you ? Poor Elkenah, all other changes past, For bread in Smithfield diagons hiss'd at last, Spit streams of fire to make the butchers gape. And found his manners suited to his shape. Such is the fate of talents misapply'd; So liv'd your prototype, and so he d/'d. Th' abandon'd manners...
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The Poetical Works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young: With the Life of ..., Volume 3

Edward Young - 1805 - 232 pages
...first. What if the figure should in fact prove true ? It did iii Elkenah, why not in you ? Poor Elkenah, all other changes past, For bread in Smithfield dragons...butchers gape, And found his manners suited to his shape. Such is the fate of talents misapply'd ; So liv'd your prototype, and so he dy'd. Th' abandon'd manners...
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Watts, A. Philips, West, Collins, Dyer, Shenstone, Young

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 pages
...What if the fifnire should in fact prove true ? It did in Elke nah ', why not in you ? Poor Elkenah, all other changes past, for bread in Smithfield dragons hiss'd at last, Spit streams of fire to make the butohers gape, And found his manners suited to his shape : Such is the fate of talents misapply'd ;...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 13

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 pages
...fact prove true ? It did in Elkenah', why not in you ? Poor Elkenah, all other changes past, For hread in Smithfield dragons hiss'd at last, Spit streams of fire to make the hutohers gape, And found his manners suited to his shape": Such is the fate of talents misapply'd I...
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The Works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young, Volume 1

Edward Young - 1811 - 294 pages
...ELKENAH, why not in you ? Poor ELKENAH, all other changes past, For bread in Smithfield dragons hist at last, Spit streams of fire to make the butchers gape, And found his manners suited to his shape : Such is the fate of talents misapply'd ; So liv'd your Prototype ; and so he dy'd. Th' abandon'd...
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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing ..., Volume 1

John Nichols, Samuel Bentley - 1812 - 764 pages
..."St. George for Engfond," acted a dragon inclosed in a case of green leather of his own invention. To this circumstance Dr. Young refers in the following...butchers gape, And found his manners suited to his shape. Such is the fate of talents misapply'd," &c. . Having lost his credit, he lived poor and despised,...
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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing ..., Volume 1

John Nichols - 1812 - 748 pages
..." St. George for England," acted a dragon inclosed in a case of green leather of his own invention. To this circumstance Dr. Young refers in the following...past,. For bread in Smithfield dragons hiss'd at last, v Spit streams of fire to make the butchers gape, And found his manners suited to his shape. Such is...
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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical ...

John Nichols, Samuel Bentley - 1812 - 758 pages
...leather of his own invention. To this circumstance Dr. Young .refers in the following lines of bis Epistle to Mr. Pope : '* Poor Elkanah, all other changes...streams of fire to make the butchers gape, And found liis manners suited to his shape. / Such is the fate of talents misapply'd," &c. Having lost his credit,...
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Biographia Dramatica: pt. 2. Authors and actors: I-Y. Appendix. Additions ...

David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 416 pages
...St. George for England, acted a dragon, enclosed in a case of green leather, of his own invention. To this circumstance Dr. Young refers in the following...other changes past, " For bread in Smithfield dragons hissM at last, " Spit streams of fire to make the butchers gape, " And found his manners suited to...
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