 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1873 - 348 páginas
...amjss;" A dull complaining atheist said, As stretched he lay beneath the shade, And instanced it in this: "Behold," quoth he, "that mighty thing, A pumpkin...round, Is held but by a little string, Which upward can not make it spring, Nor bear it from the ground. " While on this oak an acorn small, So disproportioned... | |
 | 1886 - 552 páginas
...lightly strung, 'Mongst things which ou the surface sprung, And small and feeble be. "As stretched he lay beneath a shade." Behold, quoth he, that mighty...large and round, Is held but by a little string, Which upwards cannot make it spring, Or bear it from the ground. While on this oak an acorn small, So disproportioned... | |
 | Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of Winchilsea - 1902 - 584 páginas
...amiss, A dull presuming Atheist said, As stretch 'd he lay beneath a Shade ; And instanced in this: Behold, quoth he, that mighty thing, A Pumpkin, large and round, Is held but by a little String, Which upwards cannot make it spring, Or bear it from the Ground. Whilst on this Oak, a Fruit so small, So... | |
 | Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of Winchilsea - 1902 - 588 páginas
...thing's amiss, A dull presuming Atheist said, As stretch'd he lay beneath a Shade; And instanced in this: Behold, quoth he, that mighty thing, A Pumpkin, large and round, Is held but by a little String, Which upwards cannot make it spring, Or bear it from the Ground. Whilst on this Oak, a Fruit so small, So... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1922 - 288 páginas
...amiss, A dull, presuming Atheist said, As stretch'd he lay beneath a shade; And instanced in this: Behold, quoth he, that mighty thing, A Pumpkin, large and round, Is held but by a little string, Which upwards cannot make it spring, Or bear it from the ground. Whilst on this Oak, a fruit so small, So... | |
 | Iolo Aneurin Williams - 1923 - 528 páginas
...amiss," A dull, presuming atheist said, As stretch 'd he lay beneath a shade, And instanced in this : " Behold," quoth he, " that mighty thing, A pumpkin,...large and round, Is held but by a little string, Which upwards cannot make it spring, Or bear it from the ground. ' Whilst on this oak a fruit so small, So... | |
 | Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of Winchilsea - 1928 - 124 páginas
...amiss,' A dull presuming Atheist said, As stretched he lay beneath a shade, And instanced in this: 'Behold,' quoth he, 'that mighty thing, A pumpkin,...large and round, Is held but by a little string, Which upwards cannot make it spring, Or bear it from the ground; 'Whilst on this oak, a fruit so small, So... | |
 | 1821 - 458 páginas
...dull, complaining Atheist said, As stretch'd he lay beneath the shade, And instanced in this : — " Behold," quoth he, " that mighty thing, A Pumpkin large and round, Is held up by a little string, Which upwards cannot make it spring, Nor bear it from the ground. " While on... | |
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METHINKS the world seems oddly made, And every thing amiss ;" A dull, complaining atheist said, As stretch'd he lay beneath the shade, And instanced it in this : 
