 With leering looks, bull-faced, and freckled fair, With two left legs, and Judas-coloured hair, And frowzy pores, that taint the ambient air.  Book Auction Records - Pagina ixgeredigeerd door - 1927Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 pagina’s
...him three well-known coarse and forcible satirical lines, descriptive of his personal appearance : " With leering looks, bull-faced, and freckled fair, With two left legs, and Judas-coloured hair, And frowzy pores, that taint the ambient air." •" Tell the dog," said the poet to the messenger, ft that... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pagina’s
...him three well-known coarse and forcible satirical lines, descriptive of his personal appearance : " With leering looks, bull-faced, and freckled fair, With two left legs, and Judas-colour'd hair, And frowzy pores, that taint the ambient air." " Tell the dog," said the poet... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pagina’s
...him three well-known coarse and forcible satirical lines, descriptive of his personal appearance : " With leering looks, bull-faced, and freckled fair, With two left legs, and Judas-colour'd hair, And frowzy pores, that taint the ambient air." " Tell the dog," said the poet... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 566 pagina’s
...him three well-known coarse and forcible satirical lines, descriptive of his personal appearance : " With leering looks, bull-faced, and freckled fair, With two left legs, and Judas-colour'd hair, And frowzy pores, that taint the ambient air." " Tell the dog," said the poet... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1841 - 348 pagina’s
...Tonson suddenly received, through the hands of a friend, this flattering triplet, and a brief message : With leering looks, bull-faced, and freckled fair,...hair, And frowsy pores, that taint the ambient air . . . " Tell the dog," added the great satirist of his day, " that he who wrote these can write more."... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 pagina’s
...down with a quarto, but ran him through with a triplet, describing the bibliopole's person : — * " With leering looks, bull-faced, and freckled fair, With two left legs, and Judas-coloured hair, And frowzy pores that taint the ambient air." '' Tell the dog," said the poet to the messenger by whom... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 348 pagina’s
...three well-known coarse and forcible satirical lines, descriptive of his personal appearance : — ' With leering looks, bull-faced, and freckled fair, With two left legs, and Judas-coloured hair, And frouzy pores, that taint the ambient air.' " ' Tell the dog,' said the poet to the messenger, ' that... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - 1849 - 472 pagina’s
...following verses to his house in Bow Street, as a poetical portrait of a shabby bookseller : — " With leering looks, bull-faced, and freckled fair, With two left legs and Judas-coloured hair, And frouzy pores that taint the ambient air." " And tell the dog when you deliver it," said Dryden to his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1850 - 318 pagina’s
...Tonson's part, sent him three oft- quoted coarse lines, descriptive of his personal appearance : — " With leering looks, bull-faced, and freckled fair,...hair, And frowsy pores, that taint the ambient air." " Tell the dog," said the poet to the messenger, " that he who wrote these can write more." But Tonson... | |
 | 1878 - 676 pagina’s
...Jons PARKIN. Idridgehay, Derby. DRYDKS'S TRIPLET ox JACOB Toxsox. — "With leering look, bull-ncck'd, and freckled fair, With two left legs, and Judas-coloured...hair, And frowsy pores that taint the ambient air." These well-known lines of Drvden I have alwavs understood to have originated in this way: — The bookseller... | |
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