 | Peter Pindar - 1804 - 176 pagina’s
...thousand authors' lives : Through all the fields of wit he flies ; Dreadful his wit with clust'ring eyes, With horns without, and tusks within, And scales to serve him for a skin. Observe him nearly, lest he climb To wound the bards of ancient time, Or down the vale of Fancy go,... | |
 | John Wolcot - 1804 - 178 pagina’s
...thousand authors' lives : Through all the fields of wit he flies ; Dreadful his wit with clust'ring eyes, With horns without, and tusks within, And scales to serve him for a skin. Observe him nearly, lest he climb To wound the bards of ancient time, Or down the vale of Fancy go,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pagina’s
...thousand author's lives : Through all the fields of wit he flies } Dreadful his wit with clust'ring pleas'd Smil'd on his last fair work! Then all Observe him nearly, lest he cliinb To wound the bards of amient time, Or down the vale of Fancy go,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 612 pagina’s
...a thousand authors livos: Through all the fields of wit he flies; Dreadful his head with clustering eyes, With horns without, and tusks within, And scales to serve him for a skin. Observe him nearly, lest he climb To wound the bards of ancient time, Or dnwn the vale of fancy go... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 620 pagina’s
...authors lives: Through all the lields of wit he flies; Dreadful hi* head with clustering eyes, WiMi horns without, and tusks within, And scales to serve him for a skin. Observe him nearly, lest he climb To wound the bards of ancient time, Or down the vale of fancy go... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pagina’s
...thousand authors' lives: Through all the fields of wit he flies ; Dreadful his head with clustering eyes, With horns without, and tusks within, And scales to serve him for a skin. Observe him nearly, lest he climb To wound the bards of ancient time, Or down the vale of fancy go... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 346 pagina’s
...thousand authors' lives : Through all the fields of wit he flies ; Dreadful his head with clustering eyes, With horns without, and tusks within, And scales to serve him for a skin. Observe him nearly, lest he climb To wound the bards of ancient time, Or down the vale of fancy go... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pagina’s
...thousand authors' lives : Through all the fields of wit he flies; Dreadful his head with clustering eyes, With horns without, and tusks within, And scales to serve him for a skin. Observe him nearly, lest he climb To wound the bards of ancient time; Or down the vale of fancy go,... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pagina’s
...thousand anthors' lives : Through all the fields of wit he flies ; Dreadful his head with clustering eyes. With horns without and tusks within, And scales to serve him for a skin. Observe him nearly, lest he climb To wound the bards of ancient time ; Or down the vale of fancy go,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...lives : Through all the fields of wit he flies, Dreadful his head with clustering eyes, With bortis zlitt William" William Hazlitt( Observe him nearly, lest he climb To wound the bards of ancient time, Or down the vale of fancy go... | |
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Observe him nearly, lest he climb To wound the bards of ancient time, Or down the vale of fancy go To tear some modern wretch below. On every corner fix thine eye, Or ten to one he slips thee by. 
