 | Charles Knight - 1844 - 438 หน้า
...And was old dog at physiology. But, as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his lect 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... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 532 หน้า
...horoscopy, astrology, 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 :" Butler was enabled in an eminent degree to describe alternately low circumstances in the grandiloquent... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 หน้า
...horoscopy, astrology, 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... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1850 - 766 หน้า
...describe them as " 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 - 1854 - 292 หน้า
...horoscopy, astrology, And was 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 '& in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was ; So in the circle of the arts,... | |
 | Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 296 หน้า
...horoscopy, astrology, And was 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,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 304 หน้า
...hence this kind of 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.... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1856 - 624 หน้า
...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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 หน้า
...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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1857 - 444 หน้า
...hence this kind of dog was called " the turnspit : " " Bat as a dog that tarns the spit Bestirs himself and plies his feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain,— Ills own weight brings him back again, And ft ill he's In the sol f- same place Where, at uls setting... | |
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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... 
