 | Edmund Waller - 1722 - 364 pages
...Tenant feeds On precious Fruits, and pays his Rent in Weeds: With candy'd Plantanes, and the juicy Pine, On choiceft Melons and fweet Grapes they dine, And with Potatoes fat their wanton Swine. Nature thefe Gates with fuch a lavifh Hand Pours out among them, that our coarfer Land Taftes... | |
 | Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1744 - 496 pages
...tenant feeds On precious fruits, and pays his rent in weeds. With candy'd plantains, and the juicy pine, On choiceft melons, and fweet grapes, they dine : And with potatoes fat their wanton fwine. Nature thefe cates with fuch a lavifh hand Pours out among them, that our coarfer land Taftes... | |
 | Books - 1764 - 598 pages
...him, exceeds that of the Hefferian Gardens, and where, With candied plantaines, and the juicy pine, On choiceft melons, and fweet grapes they dine, And with potatoes fat their wanton fuilne. It is a great pity that the ingenious poem called the Sugar Cane, was not publifhed before... | |
 | severak hands - 1764 - 590 pages
...that of the HeJ'pcrian Gardens, and where, With candied plantaines, and the juicy pine, On choiccft melons, and fweet grapes they dine, And with potatoes fat their wanton fw'ine, It is a great pity that the ingenious poem called the Sugar • Cane, was not publifhed before... | |
 | Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1768 - 366 pages
...tenant feeds On precious fruits, and pays his rent in weeds. With candy'd plantains, and the juicy pine, On choiceft melons, and fweet grapes, they dine : And with potatoes fat their wanton fwine. Nature thefe cates with fuch a lavifh hand Pours out among them, that our coarfer land Taftes... | |
 | Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale - 1772 - 330 pages
...tardy plants in our cold orchards plac'd, Referve their fruit for the next age's tafte ; Op choiccft melons, and fweet grapes, they dine : > And with potatoes fat their wanton fwine. J There, There, a fmall grain, in fome few months, will be A firm, a lofty, and a fpacious tree.... | |
 | James Beattie - Classical education - 1776 - 582 pages
...fmile inftead of admiration, by a contraft of this kind. With candid plantanes, and the juicy pine, On choiceft melons and fweet grapes they dine, And — with potatoes fat their wanton fwine. 2, Mean fentiments, or expreffions, in the mouth of thofe who aflume airs of dignity, have the... | |
 | James Beattie - Classical education - 1779 - 536 pages
...fmile inftead of admiration, by a contrafl of this kind. With candied plantanes, and the juicy pine, On choiceft melons and fweet grapes they dine. And — with potatoes. fat their wanton fwine. 2. Mean fentiments, or exprdfions, in the mouth of thofe who affume airs of dignity, have the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 274 pages
...tenant feeds On precious fruits, and pays his rent in weeds. With candy'd plantains, and the juicy pine, On choiceft melons, and fweet grapes, they dine: And with potatoes fat their wanton fwine. Nature thcfe cates with fuch a lavifl: hand Pours out among them, that our coarfer land TafteJ... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 300 pages
...precious fruits, and pays his rent in weeds. With candy'd plantains, and the juicy pine, On choicelt melons, and fweet grapes, they dine: And with potatoes fat their wanton fvvine. Nature thcfe cates with fuch a lavifh hand Pours out among them, that our coarfer land TafteS... | |
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Nature thefe cates with fuch a lavifh hand Pours out among them, that our coarfer land Taftes of that bounty ; and does cloth return, Which not for warmth, but ornament, is worn : For the kind fpring, which but falutes us here, Inhabits there, and courts... 