 Tis necessary Wolves should eat. If, mindful of the bleating weal, Thy bosom burn with real zeal, Hence, and thy tyrant lord beseech ; To him repeat the moving speech: A Wolf eats sheep but now and then, Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe...  Views and reviews - Página 223por William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson - 1908Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Gay - 1796 - 284 páginas
...repeat the moving speech ; A wolf eats sheep but now and then — Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse. THE PAINTER WHO PLEASED NOBODY AND E VERY EODY. LEST men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability... | |
 | John Bell - 1797 - 424 páginas
...repeat the moving speech : 30 A Wolf eats sheep hut now and then, Ten thousands are devour'd by men, An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse. FABLE XVIII. IHE PAINTEH WHO PLEASED NOBODY AND EVEHY *ODY. LIST men suspect your tale untrue, Keep... | |
 | John Gay - 1806 - 178 páginas
...him repeat the moving speech : A Wolf eats sheep but now and then, Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse.' THE PMNTER WHO PLEASED NO BODY AND EVERY BODY. LEST men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability... | |
 | 1806 - 408 páginas
...repeat the moving speech : A Wolf eats sheep but now and then 5 Ten thousands are devour'd by men. — An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse. The LION and the CUB. A FABLE. (GAY.) How fond are men of rule and place, Who court it from the mean... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 páginas
...him repeat the moving speech : A Wolf eats sheep hut now and then, Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is wont.'' FABLE XVIII. THE FAINTER WHO PLEASED NOBOIlY AND EVERY IODY. LEST men suspect your tale untrue,... | |
 | Theobald Wolfe Tone, William Theobald Wolfe Tone - 1826 - 594 páginas
...inveterate, though more artful, will, under the mask of friendship, prove themselves as bitter enemies. " An open foe may prove a curse ; " But a pretended friend is worse." A Short Answer to a "Brief Caution to the Roman Catfiolics of Ireland." [By a Liberty Boy.] DEAR CorwTRYMEN:... | |
 | John Gay - 1826 - 376 páginas
...him repeat the moving speech; A wolf eats sheep but now and then, Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse.' FABLE XVIII. The Painter who pleased nobody and every body. LEST men suspect your tale untrue, Keep... | |
 | Eton miscellany - 1827 - 532 páginas
...who are so uncontrolled in their strictures. Gay has warned us against both parties in the couplet, An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse. And another eminent writer has enlarged on the idea in these lines, which serve as a conclusion to my paper... | |
 | Alexander Maxwell Adams - 1829 - 502 páginas
...opposition of open enemies, that he has had reason to dread, but the black villany of apparent friendship. " An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse." With a warmth and ardour peculiar to himself, he has trusted his money and his documents fearlessly... | |
 | 1829 - 460 páginas
...proprietory of the first dramatic metropolis in Christendom have yet abundant cause to feel that ' An open foe may prove a curse : But a pretended friend is worse '.' THE NETHERLANDS UNIVERSITIES. — Alearned correspondent enabled us to give, in our 64th number,... | |
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