The British Apollo: Containing Two Thousand Answers to Curious Questions in Most Arts and Sciences, Serious, Comical, and Humorous, Approved of by Many of the Most Learned and Ingenious of Both Universities, and of the Royal-Society, Volume 2T. Sanders, 1726 |
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Page 338
... tell who it is , We know by the ears , Who ' gainst us appears , So that for the other may pass . If with raree - show , We're reduced to go , We're affured no custom to lack , For inftead of French toys , To pleafe little boys , We'll ...
... tell who it is , We know by the ears , Who ' gainst us appears , So that for the other may pass . If with raree - show , We're reduced to go , We're affured no custom to lack , For inftead of French toys , To pleafe little boys , We'll ...
Page 343
... tell you for once , That your answer's not pat , To the noife of my cat : " Tis not purring but bawling , When he's caterwauling , The reafon of which I defir'd ; Therefore pray let it come , The next time you have room , Or I'll fay ...
... tell you for once , That your answer's not pat , To the noife of my cat : " Tis not purring but bawling , When he's caterwauling , The reafon of which I defir'd ; Therefore pray let it come , The next time you have room , Or I'll fay ...
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... tell me why , The men are fo inclin'd to lye ? A. Becaufe the women won't believe , Except fome monftrous proofs they give . Q. Apollo , pray The reafon fay Why poets do furmife That love is blind , When lovers find The boy has all his ...
... tell me why , The men are fo inclin'd to lye ? A. Becaufe the women won't believe , Except fome monftrous proofs they give . Q. Apollo , pray The reafon fay Why poets do furmife That love is blind , When lovers find The boy has all his ...
Page 352
... Tell , learn'd Phoebeans , why your glorious fire , When nature's mighty Lord hung on the tree , Did from our view ( in fables cloath'd ) retire , Declining that fad fpectacle to fee ? A. Our God retir'd ( fhock'd at the dreadful blow ) ...
... Tell , learn'd Phoebeans , why your glorious fire , When nature's mighty Lord hung on the tree , Did from our view ( in fables cloath'd ) retire , Declining that fad fpectacle to fee ? A. Our God retir'd ( fhock'd at the dreadful blow ) ...
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... tell the reason , why upon Green- wich hill , when it is high tide , you may fee the beafts in the fields called the Ifle of dogs , and not at low tide , tho ' they continue in the fame place ? which has been the ob- fervation of ...
... tell the reason , why upon Green- wich hill , when it is high tide , you may fee the beafts in the fields called the Ifle of dogs , and not at low tide , tho ' they continue in the fame place ? which has been the ob- fervation of ...
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