 | Collection - 1758 - 358 páginas
...neither one nor t'other. " I caught the animal laft night, " And view'd it o'er by candle-light ; " I mark'd it well^-'twas black as jet—- " You ftare...got it yet, " And can produce it." " Pray, Sir, do: " I'll lay my life, the thing is blue." " And I'll be fworn, that when you've feen " The reptile, you'll... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 416 páginas
...I caught the animal laft night, " And view'd it o'er by candle-light : " I marked it well — 'twas black as jet — " You ftare — but Sirs, I've got it yet, " And can produce it." " Pray, Sir, do : " I'll lay my life, the thing is blue." ** And I'll be fworn, that when you've leen ** The reptile,... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1765 - 412 páginas
...caught the animal laft night, " And view'd itx»'er by candle-light: *' I mark'd it well — 'twas black as jet-—' *' You ftare — but Sirs, I've got it yet, " And can produce it." " Pray, Sir, do i *' I'll lay my life, the thing is blue." " And I'll be fworn, that when you've feea *' The reptile,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1785 - 460 páginas
...laft night, " And view'4 it o'er by candle-light : " I mark'd it well — 'twas black as jet— 41 You ftare — but Sirs, I've got it yet, " And can produce it." — " Pray, Sir, do: " I'll lay my life the thing is blue." " And I'll be fworn that when you've feen " The reptile, you'll... | |
 | William Scott - 1789 - 416 páginas
...t'other. I caught the animal laft night, And view'd it o'er by candle-light : I hiark'd ft well — 'twas black as jet — You ftare->— but, Sirs, I've got...it yet, And can produce it." — " Pray, .Sir, do : I'lllay my life the thing is blue." — "And I'll be' fworn, that when you've feen The reptile, you'll... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 páginas
...caught the animal laft night, ' And view 'd it o'er by candle-light : ' I mark'd it well — 'twas black as jet — ' You ftare — but, Sirs, I've got it yet, • And can produce it.' " Pray. Sir, do : " I'll lay my life, the thing istlue." ' And I'll be fworn, that when you've feen ' The reptile,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 páginas
..." And view'd it o'er by candle-light: " I mark'd it well — 'twas black as jet — " You dare — I wander • I'll lay my life, the thing is blue.' " And I'll be fworn, that when you've feen /•* The reptile,... | |
 | Addison (pseud.) - 1795 - 616 páginas
...I caught the animal laft night, " And view'd it o'er by candle light : " I mark'd it well — 'twas black as jet — " You ftare — but Sirs, I've got...it yet, " And can produce it." — " Pray, Sir, do : " I'll lay my life the thing is blue." " And I'll be fworn that when you've feen " The reptile, you'll... | |
 | John Wesley - 1794 - 738 páginas
...And view'd it o'er by candle-light : " I inark'd it well ; — 'twas black as jet ;— " You flare.; but Sirs, I've got it yet, " And can produce it." — " Pray, Sir, do : " I'll lay my life the thing is blue."— " And I'll be fworn that when you've feen " The reptile,... | |
 | British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 páginas
...other. I caught the animal laft night, And view'd it o'er by candle-light : I mark'd it well — -'twas black as jet— You ftare — but, Sirs, I've got it yet, And can produce it." " Pray, Sir, do ; I'll lay my life the thing is blue." And I'll be fworn that, when you've feen• The reptile, you'll... | |
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I'll lay my life the thing is blue." "And I'll be sworn, that when you've seen The reptile, you'll pronounce him green." "Well, then, at once to ease the doubt," Replies the man, "I'll turn him out; And when before your eyes I've set him, If you don't... 
