 | John Gay - 1796 - 284 pages
...swagging pannier's load A FARMER'S WIFE to market rode, And, jogging on, with thoughtful care Summ'd up the profits of her ware ; When, starting from her...with stumbling tread, Fell prone ; o'erturn'd the pannier lay, And her mash'd eggs bestrew'd the way. She, sprawling in the yellow road, Rail'd, swore... | |
 | John Bell - 1797 - 424 pages
...swagging pannier's load A Farmer's Wife to market rode, And, jogging on with thoughtful care, Summ'd up the profits of her ware; When, starting from her silver dream, Thus far and wide was heard a scream. That Haven on yon' left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak !) Bodes me no good. No... | |
 | John Gay, Edward Moore - 1800 - 260 pages
...swagging paunier's load A farmer's wife to market rode, And, jogging on, with thonghtful care Summ'd up the profits of her ware ; When, starting from her...tread, Fell prone ; o'erturn'd the paunier lay, And her masb'd eggs bestrew'd the way. She. sprawling in the yellow road, Rail'd, swore, aud curs'd. Thou croaking... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 pages
...swagging panniers' load • A Farmer's Wife to market rode, And, jogging on, with thoughtful care, Summ'd up the profits of her ware ; When, starting from her...her scream. " That Raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse OD his ill-betiding croak !) Bodes me no good." No more she said, When poor blind Ball, with stumbling... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 pages
...snagginjr panniers' load A Farmer's Wife to market role, And, jogging on, with thoughtful care, SimimM up the profits of her ware ; When, starting from her silver dream, Thus far and wide was heard her scrrain. " That Raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak!) Bodes me no good. " No... | |
 | John Gay - 1811 - 478 pages
...on, with thonghtful care Summ'd up the profits of her ware ; When, starting from her silver drcam, Thus far and wide was heard her scream. That raven...croak ) Bodes me no good. No more she said, When poor hlind Ball,v,ith stumbling trcad. Fell prone ; o'erturn'd the panuicr lay, And her mash'd eggs bestrew'd... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...swagging panniers' load A farmer's wife to market rode; And, jogging on, with thoughtful care Summ'd up the profits of her ware; When, starting from her...with stumbling tread, Fell prone ; o'erturn'd the panniers lay, And her uiash'd eggs bestrew'd the way. She, sprawling in the yellow road, Rail'd, swore,... | |
 | John Gay - 1816 - 174 pages
...swagging panniers' load, A Farmer's Wife to market rode, And jogging on, with thoughtful care, Summ'd up the profits of her ware ; When, starting from her...silver dream, Thus far and wide was heard her scream : — r That Raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-hetiding croak !) Bodes me no good ! No more... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 584 pages
...been considered as birds of bad omen. Gay, in his fable of the Farmer's Wife and the Raven, says, " That raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak) Bodes me no good." V. 709 — 11. The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, Did cause their clergy,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...Nisi, &c. VIRC. Ver. 117 — 120. Old English ballads. When, starting from lier silver dream, Tims H+ H+ pannier lay, And her mash'd eggs bcstrow'd the way. She, sprawling in the yellow road, Rail'd, swore,... | |
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I'll read my Fable." Betwixt her swagging panniers' load A Farmer's Wife to market rode, And, jogging on, with thoughtful care, Summ'd up the profits of her ware ; When, starting from her silver dream, Thus far and wide was heard her scream. " That Raven... 
