Lies rackt with pain, and you without : How patiently you hear him groan. How glad the case is not your own. What poet would not grieve to see His breth'ren write as well as he ? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish his rivals all in hell. The works of ... Jonathan Swift - Página 176de Jonathan Swift - 1752 - 80 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 páginas
...thus be overt opt, Would you not wish his lanrels cropt? Dear honest Ned is in the gout, Lies racked with pain, and you without : How patiently you hear him groan ! How glad the case is not your own ! What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But, rather... | |
| Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 páginas
...thus be overtopt, Would you not wish his laurels cropt ? Dear honest Ned is in the gout, Lies racked with pain, and you without ; How patiently you hear him groan ! How glad the case is not your own I What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he ? But, rather... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1881 - 368 páginas
...be over-topped, Would you not wish his laurels cropped? Dear honest Ned is in the gout, Lies racked with pain, and you without: How patiently you hear him groan! How glad the case is not your own ! What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But, rather... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 páginas
...thus be overtopt, Would you not wish his laurels croptT Dear honest Ned is in the gout, Lies racked w < , case is not your own ! What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he T But, rather... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 páginas
...be overtopp'd, Would you not wish his laurels cropp'd ? Dear honest Ned is in the gout, Lies rack'd with pain, and you without : How patiently you hear him groan ! How glad the case is not your own ! What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he ? But rather... | |
| Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 430 páginas
...thus be overtopt, Would you not wish his laurels cropt ? Dear honest Ned is in the gout, Lies racked with pain, and you without; How patiently you hear him groan ! How glad the case is not your own I * * * * * Some country squire to Lintot goes, Inquires for Swift in verse and... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 páginas
...with old and empty rules, Stale memorandums of the schools. SWIFT. Ned is in the gout, — Lies rack'd with pain, and you without ; How patiently you hear him groan ! How glad the case is not your own ! SWIFT. Philosophy consists not In airy schemes, or idle speculations : The rule... | |
| Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 604 páginas
...me have the higher post, Suppose it but an inch at most. Dear honest Ned is in the gout. Lies racked with pain, and you without : How patiently you hear him groan ! How glad the case is not your own ! What poet would not grieve to see His brothers write as well as he; But, rather... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 páginas
...be overtopp'd, Would you not wish his laurels cropp'd ? Dear honest Ned is in the gout, Lies racked case is not your own ! What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he ? But, rather... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 páginas
...be ovcrtopp'd, Would you not wish his laurels cropp'd ? Dear honest Ned is in the gout, Lies racked and examine upon what they bottom. Without this a man may read the discours case is not your own ! What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he ? But, rather... | |
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