 Content with little, I can piddle here On Broccoli and mutton, round the year: But ancient friends, (tho' poor, or out of play) That touch my Bell, I cannot turn away. 'Tis true, no Turbots dignify my boards, But gudgeons, flounders, what my Thames affords....  Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences ... - Strana 3931816Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 str.
...if now txcis'd; In foreft planted by a father's hand, Than in five acres now of rented land. Content n his feet; Fair rounds of radiant points invert his hair; Celsftlal nd>-,uvs breathe thro (tho' poor, or out of play), That touch my bell, I cannot turn away. 'Tis troe, no turbota dignify... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 802 str.
...BROCADEL, a kind of coarfe; brocade ; chiefly ufed for tapeftry. 13ROCATELLO, a name given by lapidarie* to the white and gold veined red marble. (i.) * BROCCOLI....[Italian.] A fpecies of cabbage. — Contented? with liltk, I can piddle here, On broccoli and mutton round the year ; But ancient friends, though poor... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 str.
...lapidaries to the white and gold-veined red marble. BROCCOLI, n.». Ital. A species of cabbage. Content with little, I can piddle here On broccoli and mutton round the \ • ,u- , But ancient friends, tho' poor or out of pay, That touch my bell, I cannot turn away. Pope,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 str.
...now excised ; In forests planted by a father's hand, Than in five acres now of rented land. Content with little, I can piddle here On broccoli and mutton, round the year ; But ancient friends (though pool', or out of play) That touch my bell, I cannot turn away. 'Tis true, no turbots dignify my boards,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 310 str.
...now Excis'd; In forest planted by a Father's hand, 135 Than in five acres now of rented land. Content with little I can piddle here, On broccoli and mutton, round the year; But ancient friends (tho1 poor, or out of play), That touch my bell, I cannot turn away. 140 To Hounslow-heath I point,... | |
 | Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 str.
...if now Excis'd; In Forest planted by a Father's hand, Than in five acres now of rented land. Content with little, I can piddle here On Broccoli and mutton, round the year. (Satire II, i, 133-8) 35 Dickinson, Liberty and Property, p. 21. 36 Christopher Hill, The Century of... | |
 | Milton Lodge, Kathleen M. McGraw - 1995 - 658 str.
...fumosae cum pede pernae' ('vegetahles with a shank of smoked ham') to create the charming: Content with little, I can piddle here On Broccoli and mutton, round the year. (137-8) In the lines that follow he drops from the Latin text Horace's reference to neighhours ('gratus... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 1998 - 362 str.
...generous host in The Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace Paraphrased twenty years later: Content with little, I can piddle here On Broccoli and mutton, round the year; But ancient friends, (tho' poor, or out of play) That touch my Bell, I cannot turn away. 'Tis true, no Turbots dignify my... | |
 | William Kupersmith - 2007 - 280 str.
...particularly how Horace's monosyllable "nux" grows up into an entire tree and entire line. Content with little, I can piddle here On Broccoli and mutton, round the year; But ancient friends, (tho' poor, or out of play) That touch my Bell, I cannot turn away. Tis true, no Turbo ts dignify my... | |
 | Pat Rogers - 2007
...Know, all the distant din the World can keep Rolls o'er my Grotto, and but Sooths my Sleep. Content with Little, I can piddle here On Broccoli and Mutton round the year; But ancient Friends (tho' poor or out of play) That touch my Bell, I cannot turn away. 'Tis true, no Turbots dignify my... | |
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