 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 418 pages
...Was never known to spread so wide. Say, Britain, could you ever boast Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays...it grew in common hedges. What reason can there be assign'd For this perverseness in the mind ? Brutes find out where their talents lie : A bear will... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 420 pages
...While every fool his claim alleges, As if it grew in common hedges. What reason can there be assign'd For this perverseness in the mind ? Brutes find out...their talents lie : A bear will not attempt to fly; A founder'd horse will oft debate Before he tries a five-barr'd gate ; A dog by instinct turns aside,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...ever boast, Three poets in an age at most ? f Ovids, Plutarchs, Homer::. \ Nick-names for my lady. Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays...it grew in common hedges. What reason can there be assign'd For this perverseness in the mind ? Brutes find out where their talents lie : A bear will... | |
 | Nehemiah Nettlebottom - 1820 - 200 pages
...lm?e originated with Mr F— — J— respecting the hall of the former, and church of the latter. j- Our chilling climate hardly bears, A sprig of bays in fifty years : While every fool his claim alledges, As if it grew in common hedges ! Su-if. Conceited in thought, he has no rule of right, But... | |
 | 1820 - 612 pages
...age at most ? Our chilling climate hardly bean A sprig of bays in fifty years; While every fool hit cla'im alleges, As if it grew in common hedges. What reason can there heassign'd For this perverseness in the mind ? Brutes find out whore ilu-ir lalenu He : A bear will... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pages
...wide* * Nick-names for my lady. Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most ? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays...it grew in common hedges. What reason can there be assign'd For this pcrversencss in the mind ? Brutes find out where their talents lie : A bear will... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 268 pages
...never known to spread so wide. Say, Britain ! could you ever boast Three poets in an age at most ? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays...it grew in common hedges. What reason can there be assign'd For this perverseness in the mind ? Brutes find out where their talents lie : A bear will... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pages
...Was never known to spread so wide. Say, Britain! could you ever boast Three poets in an age at most ? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays...claim alleges, As if it grew in common hedges. What reasou" can there be assign'd For this perverseness in the mind '! Brutes find out where their talents... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 432 pages
...night-foundered here. Or else some neighbour woodman, or at worst Some roving robber calling to his fellows. Brutes find out where their talents lie : A bear will...will oft debate, Before he tries a five-barred gate. The roar Of breakers has not daunted my slight trim, But still sea-worthy skiff, and she may float... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...accomplish in some years, what a lovely face, or a fine hand does in a minute? — Bruyere. CCCCLXXXIV. Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays...his claim alleges, As if it grew in common hedges. Swift. CCCCLXXXV. It would not be amiss, if an old bachelor, who lives, in contempt of matrimony, were... | |
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Brutes find out where their talents lie : A bear will not attempt to fly ; A founder'd horse will oft debate, Before he tries a five-barr'd gate; A dog by instinct turns aside, Who sees the ditch too deep and wide. 
