 | Samuel Kettell - 1838 - 262 pàgines
...soul was to be seen in the kitchen, the eel was in plain sight and could be reached by a smart jump. A whisker first and then a claw, • With many an ardent wish, She stretched in vain to reach the prize, What starving throat can food despise ? What cat 's averse to... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1839 - 302 pàgines
...! Their scaly armour's Tyrian hue,[i] Through richest purple to the view, Betrayed a golden gleam. The hapless nymph with wonder saw ; A whisker first,...between ; (Malignant fate sat by and smiled) , The slippery verge her feet beguiled, She tumbled headlong in. Eight times emerging from the flood, She... | |
 | 1840 - 322 pàgines
...stream'; Their scaly armor's Tyrian hue', Through richest purple, to the view Betrayed a golden gleam. The hapless nymph with wonder saw': A whisker first', and then a claw', With many an ardent wish' She stretched, in vain, to reach the prize': What female heart can gold despise' ? What cat's averse to... | |
 | Herbert Kynaston - 1841 - 194 pàgines
...stream : Their scaly armour's Tyrian hue Through richest purple to the view Betrayed a golden gleam. The hapless Nymph with wonder saw ; A whisker first, and then a claw, With many an ardent wish, She stretched in vain to reach the prize : What female heart can gold despise ? What Cat 's averse to fish?... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 pàgines
...stream: Their scaly armour's Tynan hue Though richest purple, to the view Betrayed a golden gleam. The hapless Nymph with wonder saw A whisker first, and then a claw : With many an ardent wish, She stretched, in vain, to reach the prize : What female heart can gold despise ? What cat's averse to... | |
 | 1842 - 498 pàgines
...soul was to be seen in the kitchen, the eel was in plain sight, and could be reached by a smart jump. A whisker first, and then a claw, With many an ardent wish, She stretched in vain to reach the prize, What starving throat can food despise ? What cat's averse to... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 pàgines
...stream : T hi;ir scaly armour's Tyrian hue ThroiigTf HcTiesi purple to the view Betray'da golden gleam. The hapless Nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first, and then a claw, With many an ardent wish. She strelch'd in vain to reach the prut* / What female heart can gold despise? What Cat's averse to fish... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 328 pàgines
...stream : Their scaly armour's Tyrian hue Through richesi purple to the view BelrayM a golden gleam. The hapless Nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first, and then a claw, With many an ardent wish. She strclch'd in vain to reach the prut. What female heart can gold despise? What Cat's averse to fish... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 840 pàgines
...insolence of the rabble, the batteries of catiticks and a painful lingring death. Tatler, No. 131. The hapless nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first and then a claw, With many an ardent wish, She strcach'd in vain to reach the prize ; What female heart can gold despise ? What cat's averse to fish... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 380 pàgines
...little Naiads love to sport at large." Through richest purple to the view Betray 'da golden gleam. The hapless nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first,...knew the gulf between. (Malignant Fate sat by, and smil'd) The slipp'ry verge her feet beguil'd, She tumbled headlong in. Var. V. 24. " A foe to fish."... | |
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Through richest purple to the view Betray'da golden gleam. The hapless nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first, and then a claw, With many an ardent wish, She stretch'd, in vain, to reach the prize... 
