 | Half hours - 1847
...And was old dog at physiology ; But as a dog, that turns the spit, Bestirs himself and plies his feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again ; And still he 's in the selfsame place Where at his setting out he was ; So in the circle of the arts Did... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1850
...innocent and simple natives." " But, as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again; And still lies in the Eclf-same place Where, at the setting out, he was." Therefore, as it is pleasant... | |
 | Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854
...old dog at physiology : But as a dog that turns the spit, 209 Bestirs himself, and plies his feet, To climb the •wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again, And still he 's in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was ; So in the circle of the arts,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1856 - 570 páginas
...Shaks. Julius Casar. But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To elimb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again, And still he 's in the self-same plaee, Where at his setting out he was. Butler's Hmithr,s When people... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 247 páginas
...dog was called " the turnspit:" " But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself and plies his feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain, — His own weight brings him back again, And still he's in the selfsame place Where, at his setting out, he was." — Hudibras.... | |
 | 1857
...was old dog at physiology ; But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet 210 To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again, And still he 's in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was ; So in the circle of the arts 215... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863
...Persius. — Sat. V. TURNSPIT.— But as a dop that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again, And still he's in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was. TWEEDLE-DUM.— Strange! all this... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1863 - 432 páginas
...was called " the turrwpit : " " Rut as a dog that turns the spit Restirs himself and plies hli feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain, — His own weight brings him back again. And still he's in the self, same place Where, at his setting out, he was."— Ifurtibrat.... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1864
...And was old dog at physiology : But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again ; And still he's in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was ; So in the circle of the arts, Till... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1864
...themselves, and prohibiting the sale of all such books If unlicensed. Booker was their astrological agent. To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again, And still he's in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was ; So in the circle of the arts Did... | |
| |
But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again: And still he's in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was... 
