 | John Gay - 1823 - Počet stránok 228
...lost ; The glorious orb the day refines. Thus envy breaks, thus merit shines. FABLE XXIX. THE 1'OX AT THE POINT OF DEATH. A FOX in life's extreme decay. Weak, sick, and faint, expiring lay : All appetite had left his maw, And age disarm'd his mumbling jaw ;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - Počet stránok 1062
...He's but a caterpillar drest; And all thy race (a numerous seed) Shall prove of caterpillar breed." aftcr them upon a nag, That might pass fur a forehand stag, A Comet sick, and faint, expiring lay : All appetite had left his maw, And age disarm'd his mumbling jaw. His... | |
 | John Gay - 1838 - Počet stránok 254
...Withereth at another's joy, ' And hates that excellence it cannot reach.'' THOMSON'S Stasnnt. FABLE XXIX. THE FOX AT THE POINT OF DEATH. A FOX, in life's extreme decay, Weak, sick, and faint, expiring lay ; All appetite hcd left his maw, And age disarm'd his mumbling jaw. His... | |
 | John Gay - 1838 - Počet stránok 240
...of winds) in air was lost ; The glorious orb the day refines: Thus envy breaks, thus merit shines. THE FOX AT THE POINT OF DEATH. A Fox, in life's extreme decay, Weak, sick, and faint, expiring lay ; All appetite had left his maw, And age disarm'd his mumbling jaw. His... | |
 | John Gay - 1842 - Počet stránok 236
...in air was lost; The glorious orb the day refines: Thus envy breaks, thus merit shines. FABLE XXIX. THE FOX AT THE POINT OF DEATH. A Fox, in life's extreme decay, Weak, sick, and faint, expiring lay ; All appetite had left his maw, And age disarm'd his mumbling jaw. His... | |
 | John Gay - 1853 - Počet stránok 264
...the day refines ; Thus envy breaks — thus merit fhines. FABLE XXIX. The Fox at the Point of Death. FOX, in life's extreme decay, Weak, fick, and faint, expiring lay. All appetite had left his maw, And age difarm'd his mumbling jaw. His num'rous race around him ftand, To learn their... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - Počet stránok 300
...down the fair and polished surface of the paint, simply from hatred of the white,— such is envy ! THE FOX AT THE POINT OF DEATH. A Fox, in life's extreme decay, Weak, sick, and faint, expiring lay ; All appetite had left his maw, And age disarm'd his mumbling jaw.1... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - Počet stránok 312
...polished surface of the paint, simply from hatred of the 1chite, — such is envy ! . >••<•' ' THE FOX AT THE POINT OF DEATH. A Fox, in life's extreme decay, Weak, sick, and faint, expiring lay ; All appetite had left his maw, And age disarm'd his mumbling jaw.1... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - Počet stránok 300
...of winds) in air was lost ; The glorious orb the day refines. Thus envy breaks, thus merit shines. THE FOX AT THE POINT OF DEATH. A Fox, in life's extreme decay, Weak, sick, and faint, expiring lay ; All appetite had left his maw, And Age disarm'd his mumbling jaw. His... | |
 | John Gay - 1857 - Počet stránok 302
...down the fair and polished surface of the paint, simply from hatred of the white,— such is envy ! THE FOX AT THE POINT OF DEATH. A Fox, in life's extreme decay, Weak, sick, and faint, expiring lay ; All appetite had left his maw, And age disarm'd his mumbling jaw.1... | |
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THE FOX AT THE POINT OF DEATH. A Fox, in life's extreme decay, Weak, sick, and faint, expiring lay ; All appetite had left his maw, And age disarm'd his mumbling jaw. 
