 | English drama - 1780 - 532 pages
...pace is mended ! How princely do I fpeak ! how ftiarp I threaten ! Peafants, I'll curb your headftrong impudence, And make you tremble when the lion roars, Ye earth-bred worms. O for a looking-glafs ! 13 Rofes and bays fact hints: &c.] Winftanley his aflerted, that Oliver Cromwejl performed... | |
 | Alexander Bicknell - Biography - 1791 - 546 pages
...pace is mended! How princely do I fpeak! How marp I threaten ! Peafants, I'll curb your headftrong impudence, And make you tremble when the lion roars. Ye earth-bred worms ! O for a looking-glafs ! Poets will write whole volumes of this change ! Where's my attendants ? Come hither,... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - Huntingdonshire (England) - 1808 - 290 pages
...Alexander ; Licking my feet, and wond'ring where I got This precious ointment : how my pace is mended I How princely do I speak, how sharp I threaten .' Peasants,...when the lion roars : Ye earth-bred worms ! O for a looking-glass ! Poets will write whole volumes of this change ! Where's my attendants ? Hither, sirrah,... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 896 pages
...precious ointment: how my pace is mended I How princely do I speak, how sharp I threaten ! Peasant!, I'll curb your headstrong impudence, And make you...when the lion roars: "Ye earth-bred worms ! O for a looking-glass! Poets will write whole volumes of this change ! Where's my attendants ? Hither, sirrah,... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 882 pages
...mended I How princely do I speak, how sharp I threaten ! Peasants, I'll curb your headstrong impndence, And make you tremble when the lion roars : Ye earth-bred worms ! O for a looking-glass I Pucts will write whole volumes of this change ! Where's my attendants ? Hither, sirrah,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 630 pages
...Ca;sar, or great Alexander ! Licking my feet, and wondering where I got This precious ointment. Huw my pace is mended ! How princely do I speak ! how...tremble when the lion roars, Ye earth-bred worms. О for a looking-glass ! Poets will write whole volumes of this scar; 10 The blasting childhood —... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 630 pages
...Alexander ! Licking my feet, and wondering where I got This precious ointment. How my paceismended ! How princely do I speak ! how sharp I threaten ! Peasants,...when the lion roars, Ye earth-bred worms. O for a looking-glass ! Poets will write whole volumes of this scar; 10 The Halting childhood — I would propose... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 630 pages
...my feet, and wondering where I got This precious ointment. How my paceismended ! How princely do 1 speak ! how sharp I threaten ! Peasants, I'll curb...when the lion roars, Ye earth-bred worms. O for a looking-glass ! Poets will write whole volumes of this scar; '° The blasting childhood — I would... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 612 pages
...transform'd Unto the sacred nature of a king. Methinks I hear my noble parasites Styling me Caesar or great Alexander, Licking my feet, and wondering...you tremble when the lion roars, Ye earth-bred worms ! — Poets will write whole volumes of this change.' He himself is said often, in the height of his... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1821 - 596 pages
...transform'd Unto the sacred nature of a king. Methinks I hear my noble parasites Styling me Caesar or great Alexander, Licking my feet, and wondering...you tremble when the lion roars, Ye earth-bred worms ! — Poets will write whole volumes of this change.' He himself is said often, in the height of his... | |
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Caesar or great Alexander ; Licking my feet, and wondering where I got This precious ointment. How my pace is mended ! How princely do I speak ! how sharp I threaten ! Peasants, I'll curb your headstrong impudence, And make you tremble when the lion roars,... 
