| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 ;... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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