 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1762 - 536 pages
...vanity, — and loft to trade, Our humorous and fenfible Mythologift thus fimili/ci and { efleds : 'Tis thus the Highlander complains, 'Tis thus the Union they abufe. For binding their back/ides in chains. And (hackling their feet in fhoes. For giving them both food and fewel, And comfortable... | |
 | Francis Fawkes - English poetry - 1763 - 276 pages
...pretending Seine, Led thro' parterres, or rolled down a cafcade, Confin'd to vanity, and loft to trade. 'Tis thus the Highlander complains, 'Tis thus the...abufe For binding their back-fides in chains, And fhackling their feet in lhoes : For giving them both food and fewel, And comfortable cloaths, Inftead... | |
 | John Hall-Stevenson - 1795 - 320 pages
...SEINE, Led through parterres or roll'd down a cafcade, ' Confin'd to vanity, and loft to trade. E 2 'Tii 'Tis thus the Highlander complains, 'Tis thus the...abufe For binding their back-fides in chains, And fhackling their free feet in fhoes : For giving them our food and fewel, And comfortable cloaths 5... | |
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Without that mixture and alloy, Which the Sea pours into thee every tide, Thy beauty and thy ftrength would wear away. Without his aid thou wouldft remain Like Tiber, or the poor pretending Seine, Led thro' parterres, or rolled down a cafcade, Confin'd... 