| British essayists - 1803 - 306 pages
...hasty sapper hesti A cloud of cumbrous gnats do him molest, All striving to infix their feeble S'.ing', That from their noyance he no where can rest; But...tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmuring;. If ever I should want such a fry of little authors to attend me, I shall think my paper... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 308 pages
...their hasty supper belt ; A cloud of cumbrous gnats do him molest, All striving toenfix their feeble stings, That from their noyance he no where can rest...their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar tbeir murmurings. If ever I should want such a fry of little authors to attend me, I shall think my... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 446 pages
...their hasty supper best , A cloud of cumbrous gnats do him molest, All striving toenfir their feeble stings, That from their noyance he no where can rest...But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brushetn oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings. If ever I should want such a fry of little authors... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 610 pages
...supper best; A cloud of cumbrous gnattes doe him molest, All striving to infixé their feeble stinges, That from their noyance he no where can rest ; But with his cl'jwuish hands their tend, r wings He brushethoft, and of t doth mar their murmurings. Thus ill bestedd,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 628 pages
...their hasty supper best ; A cloud of combrous gnats do him molest, AH striving to infix their feeble stings, That from their noyance he no where can rest...tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmuring*.' -If ever I should want such a fry of little authors to attend me, I shall think my paper... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 306 pages
...their hasty supper best ; A cloud of cumbrous gnats do him molest, All striving to enfix their feeble stings, That from their noyance he no where can rest...hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft duth mar their murmurings. If ever I should want such a fry of little authors to attend me, I shall... | |
| 1817 - 494 pages
...gnats do him molest, All striving to infix their feeble stings, That from their noyance he can no where rest, But with his clownish hands their tender wings...He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings. SPENSER. t The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 590 pages
...hasty supper best j A cloude of cumbrous gnats doe him molest, All striving to infiie their feeble stings, That from their noyance he no where can rest;...He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings. Fairy Queen. Another swarm : — As when a swarm of gnats at eventide Out of the fennes of Allan do... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 420 pages
...to infixe their feeble stinges, That from their noyanee he no where ean rest ; But with his elownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings. Thus ill bestedd, and fearefull more of shame Then of the eerteine perill he stood in, Halfe furious... | |
| Joseph Spence - 1820 - 318 pages
...their hasty supper best : A cloud of cumbrous gnats do him molest, All striving to infix their feeble stings, That from their noyance he no where can rest,...He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings. Faery Queen, B. ici St. 23. Dunciad. It hits the little impertinent poets, that were brushed away by... | |
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