 | 1805 - 948 pagini
...grain of purest wheat, With some small gln'r'uig grit, to eat His choice bits with ; then in a trke They make a feast less great than nice. But all this while his eye is serv'd, We must not think his ear was starv'd ; But that there was in place to stir His spleen, the... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1810 - 280 pagini
...short prayers, they set on bread, A moon-parch'd grain of purest wheat, With some small glitt'ring grit, to eat His choicest bits with ; then in a trice...less great than nice. But, all this while his eye is serv'd, We must not think his ear was starv'd ; But that there was in place, to sti r His spleen, the... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1818 - 568 pagini
...short prayers, they set on bread, A luoon-parch'd grain of purest wheat, With some small glitt'ring grit to eat His choicest bits with : then in a trice...less great than nice. But, all this while his eye is serv'd, We must not think his ear was starv'd ; But that there was in place to stir His spleen, the... | |
 | John Leyden, James Morton - 1819 - 528 pagini
...on bread ; A moon-parch'd grain of purest wheat, With some small glittering grit, to eat His choice bits with ; then in a trice They make a feast less great than nice. But, all this while his eye is serv'd, We must not think his ear was starv'd, v ' But that there was in place to stir Hi» spleen... | |
 | John Leyden, James Morton - 1819 - 528 pagini
...runs thus: " A little mushroom table spread, After short prayers, they set on bread ; A moon-parch'cl grain of purest wheat, With some small glittering grit, to eat His choice bits with ; then in a trice They make a feast less great than nice. But, all this while his... | |
 | 1822 - 384 pagini
...short prayers, they set on bread, A moon-parch'd grain of purest wheat, With some small gtitt'riug grit, to eat His choicest bits with ; then in a trice...less great than nice. But, all this while his eye is serv'd, We must not think his ear was starv'd ; But that there was in place, to stir His spleen, the... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1822 - 618 pagini
...short prayers, they set on bread, A ,nnon-parch'd grain of purest wheat, With some small glitt'ring grit to eat His choicest bits with : then in a trice...less great than nice. But all this while his eye is serv'tl, We must not think his ear was starv'd ; But that there was in place to stir His spleen, the... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 pagini
...short prayers, they set on bread, A moon-parch'd grain of purest wheat, With some small glitt'ring grit, to eat His choicest bits with ; then in a trice...less great than nice. But, all this while his eye is serv'd, We must not think his ear was starv'd ; But that there was in place, to stir His spleen, the... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1823 - 444 pagini
...fairy court anon. A little mushroom table spread; After short prayers they set on bread, A moon-parch'd grain of purest wheat, With some small glittering...But that there was in place to stir His spleen the chirring grasshopper, The merry cricket, puling fly, The piping gnat for minstrelsy : And now we must... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1823 - 404 pagini
...fairy court anon. A little mushroom table spread; After short prayers they set on bread, A moon-parch'd grain of purest wheat, With some small glittering...But that there was in place to stir His spleen the chirring grasshopper, The merry cricket, puling fly, The piping gnat for minstrelsy: And now we must... | |
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But that there was in place to stir His spleen the chirring grasshopper, The merry cricket, puling fly, The piping gnat for minstrelsy : And now we must imagine first The elves present, to quench his thirst, A pure... 
