 | Edward Young - 1802 - 420 Seiten
...ELKENAH, why not in you ? Poor ELKENAH, all other changes past, For bread in Smithfield dragons hist at last, Spit streams of fire to make the butchers...suited to his shape : Such is the fate of talents misapply 'd ; So liv'd your Prototype ; and so he dy'd. Th' abandon'd manners of our writing train... | |
 | 1803 - 468 Seiten
...in Eikpnsh, why not in you ? Poor Elkenah, all other changes past, For bread in Smithfield diagons hiss'd at last, Spit streams of fire to make the butchers...talents misapply'd; So liv'd your prototype, and so he d/'d. Th' abandon'd manners of our writing train May tempt mankind to think religion vuiu ; 270 But... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 Seiten
...the dust, was Snake the first. What if the fifnire should in fact prove true ? It did in Elke nah ', why not in you ? Poor Elkenah, all other changes past,...dragons hiss'd at last, Spit streams of fire to make the butohers gape, And found his manners suited to his shape : Such is the fate of talents misapply'd ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 Seiten
...fact prove true ? It did in Elkenah', why not in you ? Poor Elkenah, all other changes past, For hread in Smithfield dragons hiss'd at last, Spit streams of fire to make the hutohers gape, And found his manners suited to his shape": Such is the fate of talents misapply'd I... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 Seiten
...in Smtthlield ilragans hiss'd at last, Spit stream« «if tire t(i make the bnu-hers gape, And fnund his manners suited to his shape : Such is the fate of talents misapply'«] ; So liv'd your prototype; and so he died. Th1 abandon'«! manners of our writ in; train... | |
 | John Nichols, Samuel Bentley - 1812 - 764 Seiten
...this circumstance Dr. Young refers in the following lines of his Epistle to Mr. Pope : " Poor Elkanah, all other changes past, For bread in Smithfield dragons...his shape. Such is the fate of talents misapply'd," &c. . Having lost his credit, he lived poor and despised, subject to all the miseries of the most abject... | |
 | John Nichols - 1812 - 746 Seiten
...this circumstance Dr^ Young refers in the following lines of his Epistle to Mr. Pope : " Poor Elkanah, all other changes past, For bread in Smithfield dragons...found his manners suited to his shape. Such is the fete of talents misapply'd," &c. Having lost his credit, he. lived poor and despised, subject to all... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 416 Seiten
...Epistle to Mr. Pope : " Poor Elkanah, all other changes past, " For bread in Smithfield dragons hissM at last, " Spit streams of fire to make the butchers...his shape. " Such is the fate of talents misapply'd, In the end, he obtained admission into the Charterhouse, and died there, Feb. 12, 1723-4. The writer... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 430 Seiten
...Epistle to Mr. Pope : " Poor Elkanah, all other changes past, •' For biead in Smithfield dragons hi^'d at last, " Spit streams of fire to make the butchers...his shape. " Such is the fate of talents misapply'd, &c." In the end, he obtained admission into the Charterhouse, and died there, Feb. 12, 1723-4. The... | |
 | John Nichols, Samuel Bentley - 1812 - 758 Seiten
...circumstance Dr. Young .refers in the following lines of bis Epistle to Mr. Pope : '* Poor Elkanah, all other changes past, For bread in Smithfield dragons...streams of fire to make the butchers gape, And found liis manners suited to his shape. / Such is the fate of talents misapply'd," &c. Having lost his credit,... | |
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Poor Elkanah, all other changes past, For bread in Smithfield dragons hiss'd at last, Spit streams of fire to make the butchers gape, And found his manners suited to his shape, &c. 
