 | Humorous poetry - 1867 - 530 pages
...1720. Lowth said of him that he was ' one of the best of men and most eminent of scholars.' Died, 1769. OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes that hardly served at most To guard their master 'gainst a post ; Yet round the world the blade has been, To see... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...Beloved till life can charm no more, And mourn'd till pity's self be dead. COLLINS. THE CHAMELEON. OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes that hardly served at most To guard their master 'gainst a post ; Yet round the world the blade has been, 6 To... | |
 | Benjamin W. Atwell - Elocution - 1867 - 106 pages
...hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt! XI. THE CHAMELEON. OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes that hardly served at most To guard their master 'gainst a post; Yet round the world the blade has been, To see... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 586 pages
...from thence there is no stealing away, As there was on the road from Moscow. THE CHAMELEON. MEEElOL OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, Returning from his finished tour, Grown ten times perter than before : Whatever word you chance to... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...Avoca, in the county of Wicklow, Ireland. THE CHAMELEON. CXCIL — THE CHAMELEON. 1. OFT has it been ray lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes that hardly served at most To guard their master 'gainst a post ; — Yet round the world the blade has been '... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...PERTINACITY EXPOSED. (MEBRICK.) Oft has it been my lot to marA I A proud, conceited, talking sparA,, | With eyes that hardly serv'd at most', | To guard...'gainst a post, ; | Yet round the world the blade has been, | To see whatever could be seen, : | Returning from his finish'd tour. | Grown ten times... | |
 | Edward Clarke Lowe - 1868 - 186 pages
...fell, In fancy's piercing sounds would hear Poor Gelert's dying yell ! Spencer. 24. — THE CHAMELEON. OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes that hardly served at most To guard their master 'gainst a post; Yet round the world the blade had been To see... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - American poetry - 1868 - 710 pages
...goes ! Down he goes ! down he goes I See he's hushed in sweet repose ! JG Holland. XXI. THE CHAMELEON. OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited talking spark, With eyes that hardly serve at most To guard their master 'gainst a post ; Yet round the world the blade has been To see... | |
 | Tom Hood - Wit and humor - 1869 - 292 pages
...sleep its quiet brings, No angry hand shall rise to brush thy wings. THE CAMELEON. REV. J. MERRICK. OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes, that hardly served at most; To guard their master 'gainst a post, Yet round the world the blade has been To see... | |
 | Floyd Baker Wilson - Dialogues - 1869 - 208 pages
...be, as you are pleased to hope, • Priest, canon, bishop, cardinal and pope. THE CHAMELEON. MERRICK. OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes that hardly served at most To guard their master 'gainst a post ; Yet round the world the blado has been, To see... | |
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OFT has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark, With eyes that hardly served at most To guard their master 'gainst a post ; Yet round the world the blade has been, To see whatever could be seen. Returning from his... 
