 Dear Thomas, did'st thou never pop Thy head into a tin-man's shop? There, Thomas, did'st thou never see ('Tis but by way of Simile !) A squirrel spend his little rage, In jumping round a rolling cage ? The cage, as either side...  The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior - עמוד 173מאת Matthew Prior - 1907 - 150 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 דפים
...: For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. A SIMILE. Dear Thomas, did'st thou never pop Thy head into a tin-man's...jumping round a rolling cage? The cage, as either side turned up, Striking a ring of bells a-top? — Moved in the orb, pleased with the chimes, The foolish... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 496 דפים
...agree : For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. A SIMILE DEAR Thomas, didst thou never pop Thy head into a tinman's...jumping round a rolling cage? The cage, as either side turned up. Striking a ring of bells a-top ? — Moved in the orb. pleased with the chimes. The foolish... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 346 דפים
...longer, than the turn is served. MATTHEW PRIOR [1664-1721]. A SIMILE. DEAR Thomas, didst thou ever pop Thy head into a tinman's shop ? There, Thomas,...as either side turn'd up, Striking a ring of bells at top ? Mov'd in the orb, pleas'd with the chimes. The foolish creature thinks he climbs : But here... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 348 דפים
...longer, than the turn is served. MATTHEW PRIOR [1664-1721]. A SIMILE. DEAR Thomas, didst thou ever pop Thy head into a tinman's shop ? There, Thomas,...as either side turn'd up, Striking a ring of bells at top ? Mov'd in the orb, pleas'd with the chimes. The foolish creature thinks he climbs : But here... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - 1899 - 616 דפים
...muse. To this period must belong ' The Simile,' which so aptly figures his dashed ambitions : — ' There, Thomas, didst thou never see — 'Tis but by...squirrel spend his little rage In jumping round a rowling cage ; The cage, as either side turned up, Striking a ring of bells atop ? Mov'd in the orb,... | |
 | University of Maine at Orono - 1926 - 628 דפים
...At least one poem of this period, On Mites, is in direct imitation of one of Prior's, A Simile: Dear Thomas, didst thou never pop Thy head into a tin-man's shop? There, Thomas, didst thou never sec ('Tis but by way of simile) A squirrel spend his little rage, In jumping round a rolling cage?....... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 דפים
...For thou art a girl as much brighter than her, As he was a poet sublimer than me. t A SIMILE. Dear Thomas, did'st thou never pop Thy head into a tin-man's...jumping round a rolling cage? The cage, as either side turned up, Striking a ring of bells a-top ? — Moved in the orb, pleased with the chime*, The foolish... | |
 | E. J. Mathew - 1901 - 556 דפים
...humour comes out in the verses on the inferior poets of his day. They are written as A Simile : " Dear Thomas, did'st thou never pop Thy head into a tin-man's...jumping round a rolling cage ? The cage, as either side turned up, Striking a ring of bells a-top ? Moved in the orb, pleased with the chimes, The foolish... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1905 - 408 דפים
...when He heard him give this Golden Rule ; Drive on ; (He cry'd) This Fellow is no Fool. A SIMILE. DEAR THOMAS, didst Thou never pop Thy Head into a Tin-man's...SQUIRREL spend his little Rage, In jumping round a rowling Cage ? The Cage, as either Side turn'd up, Striking a Ring of Bells a-top ? Mov'd in the Orb,... | |
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