To have his heir of such a suffering spirit, So wise, so grave, of so perplex'da tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce Lie still, without a fee: when every word Your worship but lets fall, is a chequin ! [Knocking without. Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time - Seite 471von Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1836 - 568 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Junius - 1797 - 398 Seiten
...provoking gold, ' On either hand, and puts it up. * So wise, so grave, of so perplex'da tongue, - And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce ' Lie still without a fee.' 322 1 The man who resists and overcomes this iniquitous power assumed by the lords, must be supported... | |
| Junius - 1797 - 398 Seiten
...provoking gold, ' On cither hand, and puts it up. ' So wise, so grave, of so perplex 'da tongue, ' And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce • Lie still without a fee.' ' The man who resists and overcomes this iniquitous power assumed by the lords, must be supported by... | |
| Junius, Robert Heron - 1804 - 506 Seiten
...provoking gold, " On either hand, and puts it up. " So wise, so grave, of so perplex'da tongue, " And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce " Lie still, without a fee." In the House of Lords, ~\ In both Houses of Parliament the Opposition, consisting of the whole Whig... | |
| Junius - 1807 - 336 Seiten
...provoking gold, On either hand, and puts it up. So wise, so grave, of so perplex'da tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce Lie still without a fee." y The man who resists and overcomes this iniquitous power assumed by the Lords, must be supported by... | |
| Ben Jonson - 1811 - 790 Seiten
...blest To have his heir of such a suffering spirit, So wise, so grave, of so perplex'da tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce Lie still, without a fee ; when every word Your worship but lets fall, is a cecchine ! [Another knocks. Who's that > one knocks,... | |
| Junius - 1813 - 530 Seiten
...p^voking gold, Oil either hand, and puts it up. So wise, so grave, of so perplex'da tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce Lie still without a fee" ing the people, and established another doctrine as false in itself, and if possible more pernicious... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 518 Seiten
...blest To have his heir of such a suffering spirit, So wise, so grave, of so perplex'da tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce Lie still, without a fee; when every word Your worship but lets fall, is a chequin ! — [Knocking without. Who's that? one knocks... | |
| Junius - 1820 - 526 Seiten
...provoking gold " On cither hand, and puts it up. " So wise, so irrave, of so perplex'da tongue, " And land withal, that would not wag, nor scarce " Lie still, without a fee." their station, in return for the hereditary share it has given them in the legislature, the majority... | |
| George Coventry - 1825 - 444 Seiten
...provoking gold, On either hand, and puts it up. So wise, so grave, of so perplex'da tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce Lie still without a fee." 14 Aug. 1769 — " If to the elegance, novelty, and bitterness of this ingenious sarcasm, we add the... | |
| George Lunt - 1835 - 28 Seiten
...provoking gold On either hand, and puta it up, So wise, so grave, of so perplexed a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag nor scarce Lie still without a fee. But it is to be hoped, that both in Ben Jonson's times and in our own, such characters were at least... | |
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