 But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again: And still he's in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was...  Hudibras: In Three Parts - Página 165de Samuel Butler - 1761 - 401 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | John Barnard - 2003 - 562 páginas
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 | Stanton J. Linden - 392 páginas
...Dog at Physiologie: But, as a Dog that turns the spit, Bestirs himself, and plys his feet, To clime the Wheel; but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again: So in the Circ le of the Arts, Did he advance his nat'rall Parts; Till falling back still, for retreat,... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 páginas
...horoscop7, astrology, And was old dog at physiology; But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again: And still he's in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was ; So in the circle of the arts Did... | |
 | Susan E. Klepp, Billy G. Smith Smith - 2010 - 206 páginas
...great as Caesar, Am now reduced to Nebuchadnezzar: Like as a Dog that turns a Spit, Bestirs himself, and plies his Feet, To climb the Wheel; but all in vain, His own Weight brings him down again. But still he's in the self same Place, Where at his setting out he was. But I being of a Temper not... | |
 | 1809 - 418 páginas
...Jarrold leaves the subject where- he found jt, and ' Like as a dog that turns the spit, Bestirs himself and plies his feet^ To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again, And still he's in the self same place . / 'VVhere at his setting out he was.' The ninth section treats... | |
 | 1845 - 518 páginas
...horoscopy, astrology ; And was old dog at physiology : But, as a dog that turns the spit, llealirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again : And still he's in the seltsame place Where at his setting out he was : So in the circle of the arts, Did... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 248 páginas
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 | Samuel Butler - 1684 - 352 páginas
...Horoscopy, Astrology, And was old Dog at Physiology ; But, as a Dog that turns the spit, Bestirs himself, and plies his feet, To climb the Wheel; but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again : And still he's in the self-same place, Where at his setting out he was. So in the Circle of the Arts, Did... | |
 | 1852 - 394 páginas
...field in a pair of pann upon a horse's back. Turnspit. " a dog that turns the spit, Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel ; but all in vain, His own weight brings him back again, And still he's in the self-same place Where, at his setting out, he was." — Hudibras.... | |
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