Nor wonder how his fortune sunk, His brothers fleece him when he's drunk. I own the moral not exact, Besides, the tale is false, in fact; And so absurd, that could I raise up, From fields Elysian, fabling... A physician's tale - Стр. 286авторы: Heberden Milford - 1854Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - Страниц: 636
...pass an hour away : And well he might ; for, to his cost, By want of skill, he always lost ; He heard there was a club of cheats, Who had contrived a thousand feats ; Could change the stock, or cog a die, And thus deceive the sharpest eye : Nor wonder how his fortune sunk, His brothers fleece him when... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - Страниц: 642
...pass an hour away : And well he might ; for, to his cost, By want of skill, he always lost ; He heard there was a club of cheats, Who had contrived a thousand feats ; Could change the stock, or cog a die, And thus deceive the sharpest eye : Nor wonder how his fortune sunk, His brothers fleece him when... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1881 - Страниц: 626
...pass an hour away : Artd well he might ; for, to his cost, By want of skill, he always lost ; He heard there was a club of cheats, Who had contrived a thousand feats ; Could change the stock, or cog a die, And thus deceive the sharpest eye : Nor wonder how his fortune sunk, His brothers fleece him when... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1881 - Страниц: 632
...contrived a thousand feats ; Could change the stock, or cog a die, And thus deceive the sharpest eye : Nor wonder how his fortune sunk, His brothers fleece him when he's drunk I own the moral not exact, Besides, the tale is false, in fact ; And so absurd, that could I raise... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - Страниц: 518
...pass an hour away : And well he might ; for, to his cost, By want of skill, he always lost ; He heard there was a club of cheats, Who had contrived a thousand feats ; Could change the stock, or cog a die, And thus deceive the sharpest eye : Nor wonder how his fortune sunk, His brothers fleece him when... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1886 - Страниц: 222
...pass an hour away : And well he might; for to his cost, By want of skill, he always lost. He heard there was a club of cheats, Who had contrived a thousand...fortune sunk, His brothers fleece him when he's drunk. I own the moral not exact; Besides, the tale is false in fact; And so absurd, that, could I raise up... | |
| 1887 - Страниц: 842
...hath liberty to choose. And well he might, for to his cost, By want of skill, he always lost. He heard there was a club of cheats, Who had contrived a thousand feats ; Could change the stock, or cog a die, And thus deceive the sharpest eye : No wonder how his fortune sunk, His brothers fleece him when... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - Страниц: 634
...: And well he might ; for, to his cost, By want of skill, he always lost ; He heard there was a dub of cheats, Who had contrived a thousand feats ; Could change the stock, or cog a die, And thus deceive the sharpest eye : Nor wonder how his fortune sunk, His brothers fleece him when... | |
| James Baldwin - 1893 - Страниц: 332
...pass an hour away : And well he might ; for, to his cost, By want of skill, he always lost ; He heard there was a club of cheats, Who had contrived a thousand feats ; Could change the stock, or cog a die, And thus deceive the sharpest eye : Nor wonder how his fortune sunk, His brothers fleece him when... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - Страниц: 656
...And well he might ; for, to his cost, By want of skill, he always lost ; He heard there was a club oi cheats, Who had contrived a thousand feats ; Could change the stock, or cog a die, And thus deceive the sharpest eye : Nor wonder how his fortune sunk, His brothers fleece him when... | |
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