 What arrogance!' the snail replied; 'How insolent is upstart pride! Hadst thou not thus with insult vain, Provoked my patience to complain, I had concealed thy meaner birth, Nor traced thee to the scum of earth.  The first (-sixth) 'Standard' reader - Page 164by James Stuart Laurie - 1863Full view - About this book
 | John Gay - 1796 - 284 pages
...slow, the pilf 'ring race, So purge thy garden from disgrace. What arrogance ! the SNAIL reply'd ; How insolent is upstart pride ! , Hadst thou not thus, with insult vain, Provok'd my patience to complain, I had conceal'd thy meaner birth, Nor trac'd thee to the scum of... | |
 | John Gay - 1806 - 178 pages
...kind? Crush then the slow, the pilfering race, So purge thy garden from disgrace.' ' What arrogance ! (the Snail replied) How insolent is upstart pride ! Hadst thou not thus, with insult vain, Provok'd my patience to complain, I had conceal'd thy meaner birth, Nor trac'd thee to the scum of... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...slow, the pilf 'ring race -, So purge thy garden from disgrace. What arrogance ! the snail replied j How insolent is upstart pride ! Had'st thou not thus, with insult vain, Provok'd my patience to complain, I had conceal'd thy meaner birth, Nor trac'd thee to the scum of... | |
 | Christopher Anstey, John Anstey - 1808 - 600 pages
...voracious kind? Crush then the slow, the pilfring race. So purge thy garden from disgrace. What arrogance ! the Snail replied, How insolent is upstart pride ! Hadst thou not thus with insult vain, Provok'd my patience to complain, I had conceal'd thy meaner birth, Nor trac'd thee to the scum of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 596 pages
...thy meaner birth, Nor trac'd thee to the scum of Earth : For scarce nine Suns have wak'd the Hoars, To swell the fruit, and paint the flowers, Since I...humbler life survey'd, In base, in sordid guise array'd ; A hideous insect, vile, unclean, You dragg'da slow and noisome train ; And from your spider-bowels... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 582 pages
...conceal'd thy meaner birth, Nor trac'd thee to the scum of Earth : For scarce nine Suns have wak'd the Hours, To swell the fruit, and paint the flowers, Since I thy humbler life survcy'd. In base, in sordid guise array'd ; A hideous insect, vile, unclean, You dragg'da slow and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1814 - 234 pages
...thy meaner birth, Nor trac'd thce to the scum of earth. For scaree nine suns have wak'd the hourg, To swell the fruit, and paint the flowers, Since I thy humbler life survey'd, In base and sordid guise array'd: A hideous insect, vile, unclean, You dragg' da slow and noisome train ; And... | |
 | John Gay - Children's poetry - 1816 - 266 pages
...the slow, the pilf ring race, So purge thy garden from disgrace. What arrogance ! the Snail reply'd; How insolent is upstart pride! Hadst thou not thus, with insult vain, Provok'd my patience to complain, I had conceal'd thy meaner birth, Nor trac'd thee to the scum of... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...Crush them, the slow, the pilfring race*- 4 " So purge thy garden from disgrace." . " What arrogance !" the snail replied; " How insolent is upstart pride ! " Hadst thou not thus, with insult vain, " Provok'd my patience to complain, " I had conceal'd thy meaner birth, " Nor trac'd thee to the scum... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 pages
...kind ? Crush then the slow, the pilfering race, So purge thy garden from disgrace.' ' What arrogance ! (the Snail replied) How insolent is upstart pride...insult vain, Provoked my patience to complain, I had conceal'd thy meaner birth, Nor traced thee to the scum of earth: For scarce nine suns have waked the... | |
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