 | Tobias Smollett - 1817 - 680 páginas
...cannot thrive in ; he goes twitching and hopping in our language, like a man running upon quagmires, up hill in one syllable and down the dale in another, retaining no part of that stately smooth gait which he vaunts himself with amongst the Greeks and Latins." The author, against whom this passage... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1824 - 302 páginas
...his plough in ; hee goes twitching and hopping in our language, like a man running upon quagmires, up the hill in one syllable and down the dale in another,...retaining no part of that stately smooth gate which bee vaunts himself with among the Greeks and Latins." SATIRE VII 2(i. GREAT is the folly of a feeble... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1824 - 298 páginas
...his plough in; hee goes twitching and flopping in our language, like a man running upon quagmires, up the hill in one syllable and down the dale in another, retaining no part of thai stately smooth gate which hee vaunts himself witt among the Greeks and Latins." SATIRE VII26.... | |
 | 1829 - 682 páginas
...plough in,—he goes twisting and hopping, in our language, like a man running upon quagmires;—up the hill in one syllable, and down the dale in another, retaining no part of that stately, smooth gait, with which he vaunts himself amongst the Greek and Latins." Had Southey appreciated the correctness... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1838 - 744 páginas
...and hopping in our language, like a man running upon quagmires, up the hill in one syllable and downe e equal all ; and round the happy ring The reaper's...fling, And, warm'd with gratitude, he quits his place ^ Webbe's "Discourse," however, is valuable on account of the Characters which he has drawn of the... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1839 - 512 páginas
...his plough in ; hee goes twitching and hopping in our language, like a man running upon quagmires, up the hill in one syllable, and down the dale in another, retaining no pan of that stately smooth gait which hee vaunts himself with among the Greeks and Latins." — SINGER.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 462 páginas
...Allhallows in Cambridge : — " O thou wether-cocke that stands on the top of All-hallows. Come thy waies down, if thou darst, for thy crowne, and take the...the metropolis, for the sole purpose of writing his " Pierce's Supererogation," pitted against Wash's "Pierce Pennilesse." The facetious Nash describes... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 528 páginas
...wethcr-cockc that stands on the top of Allhallows, Come thy waice down, if thou darst . for thy erowne, and take the wall on us." " The hexameter verse (says...to the metropolis, for the sole purpose of writing hi* " Pierce's Supererogation," pitted against j Nash's " Pierce Pennilesse." The facetious Nash describes... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 516 páginas
...thrive in ; our speech is too craggy for him to set his plough in ; hee goes twitching and bopping in our language, like a man running vpon quagmires,...to the metropolis, for the sole purpose of writing hie "Pierce's Supererogation," pitted against Nash's " Pierce Pennilesse." The facetious Nash describes... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 462 páginas
...his plough in ; he goes twitching and hopping in our language like a man running upon quagmires, up the hill in one syllable, and down the dale in another, retaining no part of that stately smooth gait which he vaunts himself with among the Greeks and Latins." A treatise on " the New Poetry," or... | |
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The Hexamiter verse I graunt to be a Gentleman of an auncient house (so is many an english begger) , yet this Clyme of ours hee cannot thriue in; our speech is too craggy for him to set his plough in, hee goes twitching and hopping in our language like... 
