 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 532 páginas
...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 :" Butler was enabled in an eminent degree to describe alternately low circumstances in the grandiloquent... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 páginas
...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 selfsame place Where at his setting out he was ; So in the circle of the arts Did... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1850 - 766 páginas
...innocent and simple natives." " 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 lies in the Eclf-same place Where, at the setting out, he was." Therefore, as it is pleasant... | |
 | Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 296 páginas
...old dog at physiology : But as a dog that turns the spit, 209 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,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1856 - 624 páginas
...Shaks. Julius Casar. But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To elimb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again, And still he 's in the self-same plaee, Where at his setting out he was. Butler's Hmithr,s When people... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 304 páginas
...dog was called " the turnspit:" " 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 back again, And still he's in the selfsame place Where, at his setting out, he was." — Hudibras.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 páginas
...was old dog at physiology ; But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet 210 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 215... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 páginas
...Persius. — Sat. V. TURNSPIT.— But as a dop 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. TWEEDLE-DUM.— Strange! all this... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1863 - 470 páginas
...was called " the turrwpit : " " Rut as a dog that turns the spit Restirs himself and plies hli 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."— Ifurtibrat.... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1864 - 334 páginas
...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, Till... | |
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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... 
