 | Complete fabulist - 1732 - 402 pages
...winds) in air was loft ; The glorious orb the day refines : Thus Envy breaks, thus Merit fhines. xxx. The Fox at the Point of Death. A Fox, in life's extreme...Weak, fick, and faint, expiring lay ; All appetite had left his maw, And age dilarm'd his mumbling jaw. His num'rous race around him ftand, To learn their... | |
 | John Gay - Engraving, English - 1737 - 418 pages
...refines. Thus Envy breaks, thus Merit mines. I z FABLE FABLE XXIX. The F ox at the point of death. AF OX, in life's extreme decay, Weak, fick and faint, expiring lay ; All appetite hath left his maw, And age dilarm'd his mumbling jaw. His num'rous race around him ftand To learn their dying fire's command ;... | |
 | John Gay - Fables - 1746 - 212 pages
...Thus Envy breaks, thus Merit ihines. I 2 FA BLE \ I IO FABLE XXIX. 'The F ox at the point of death. FOX, in life's extreme decay, Weak, fick and faint,...And age difarm'd his mumbling jaw. His num'rous race around him ftand To learn their dying fire's command ; He rais'd his head with whining moan, •».... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1770 - 204 pages
...the day refines. Thus envy breaks, thus merit mines. FABLE FABLE XXIX. The Fox at the point ofdeath. A Fox, in life's extreme decay, Weak, fick, and faint, expiring lay ; All appetite had left his maw, And agedifarm'd his mumbling jaw. His num'rous race around him ftand To learn their... | |
 | John Gay - Fables, English - 1772 - 308 pages
...the day refines. Thus envy breaks, thus merit flune*. FABLE XXIX. The F ox at the point of Death. it Fox, in life's extreme decay, Weak, fick, and faint, expiring lay ; All appetite had left his maw, And age difarm'd his mumbling jaw. His num'rous race around him fland To learn their... | |
 | John Gay - 1773 - 388 pages
...infanguinati. E perchè in torno a me tante Galline, Che gridan per 1' uccife lor vicine ? FABLE XVII. The F ox at the point of Death, A. FOX, in life's extreme decay,...Weak, fick, and faint, expiring lay ; All appetite had left his maw, And age difarm'd his mumbling jaw. His num'rous race around htm ftand To learn their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 312 pages
...in air was loft ; The glorious orb the day refines. Thus envy breaks, thus merit fhines. FABLE XXIX. THE FOX AT THE POINT OF DEATH. A FOX, in life's extreme decay, Weak, liek, and faint, expiring lay: All appetite had left his maw, And age difarm'd his mumbling jaw. His... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 316 pages
...the day refines. Thus envy breaks, thus merit mines. FABLE FABLE XXIX. THE FOX AT THE POINT OF PEATH. FOX, in life's extreme decay, Weak, fick, and faint, expiring lay : All appetite had left his maw, And age difarm'd his mumbling jaw. His numerous race around him ftand, 5 To learn... | |
 | John Gay - Fables, English - 1792 - 250 pages
...air was loft; The glorious orb the day refines. Thus envy breaks, thus merit mines. E FABr The F ox at the point of Death. A FOX, in life's extreme decay,...Weak, fick and faint, expiring lay ; All appetite had left his maw, And age difarm'd his mumbling jaw, His num'rous race around him ftand To learn their... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...day refines. Thus envy, breaks, thus merit mines. FABLE XXIX. Tht Fox at tie paint of Dealt. A rox, in life's extreme decay, Weak, fick, and faint, expiring lay : All appetite had left hin maw, And age difarm'd his mumbling jaw. His numerous race around him (land,To learn their... | |
| |
THE FOX AT THE POINT OF DEATH. A Fox, in life's extreme decay, Weak, sick, and faint, expiring lay ; All appetite had left his maw, And age disarm'd his mumbling jaw. 
