 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...breaches, ambuicadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and jlicn anon Drums in his car, at which he starts and wakes, And, being thus frighted,...the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once entangled, much misfortune _ bodes. [backs, This is the hag, when maids lie on their Tint presses them,... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...blades, Of healths fire fathom deep ! and then anon Drnms in his ears, at which he starts and wake* ; And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. Lucretius, in the verses that immediately follow my motto, and Petronius, in his poem on the Vanity... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 378 pages
...driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throat*, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep ; and...prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab. This, this is she — Rom. Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace ; Thou talk'st of nothing. Mer. True, I talk... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 472 pages
...quarto, 1597, instead of Spanish blades, reads countermines.. Steevens t Of healths five fathom deepi1 and then anon Drums in his ear ; at which he starts,...that very Mab, That plats the manes of horses in the nighti And bakes the elf-locks* in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes.... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...ambr.sc:uloes, Spanish blades ; Of healths five f(uhu>ms deep ; and then, anon, Drums in his ears : at which he starts and wakes; And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. * VIII. — On the cxhtence of a Deity-' YOUNG. RETIRE — Fne world shut out — tuy thoughts call... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades ; Of healths five fathoms deep ; and then, anon, Drums in his ears : at which he starts and wakes; And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. VIII. — On the existence of a Deity— YOUNG. RETIRE — The world shut out — thy thoughts call... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades ; Of healths five fathoms deep ; and then, anon, Onuns in his ears : at which he starts and wakes ; And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. VIII. — On the Existence of a Deity. RETIRE — the world shut out — thy thoughts call home —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 538 pages
...anon Drums in his ear ; at which he starts, and wakes ; And, (||)beingthus frighted,(||) swearsaprayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that (||)very(||)...of horses in the night ; And bakes * the elf-locks 6 in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes •{-. * Quarto A, plats. t... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then,...frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. A person may form a judgment of his health and temperament by the pleasantness or unpleasantness of... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1822 - 430 pages
...his home and his bed. He is probably prevented sleeping, by the sound of the first church bells — "And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, and sleeps again." 5. The Theatrical Beau is seen more frequently behind than within the boxes ; and generally prefers... | |
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Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice; Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then... 
