 | Collection - 1758 - 358 pages
...neither one nor t'other. " I caught the animal laft night, " And view'd it o'er by candle-light ; " I mark'd it well^-'twas black as jet—- " You ftare...got it yet, " And can produce it." " Pray, Sir, do: " I'll lay my life, the thing is blue." " And I'll be fworn, that when you've feen " The reptile, you'll... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 416 pages
...I caught the animal laft night, " And view'd it o'er by candle-light : " I marked it well — 'twas black as jet — " You ftare — but Sirs, I've got it yet, " And can produce it." " Pray, Sir, do : " I'll lay my life, the thing is blue." ** And I'll be fworn, that when you've leen ** The reptile,... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1765 - 412 pages
...caught the animal laft night, " And view'd itx»'er by candle-light: *' I mark'd it well — 'twas black as jet-—' *' You ftare — but Sirs, I've got it yet, " And can produce it." " Pray, Sir, do i *' I'll lay my life, the thing is blue." " And I'll be fworn, that when you've feea *' The reptile,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...laft night, " And view'4 it o'er by candle-light : " I mark'd it well — 'twas black as jet— 41 You ftare — but Sirs, I've got it yet, " And can produce it." — " Pray, Sir, do: " I'll lay my life the thing is blue." " And I'll be fworn that when you've feen " The reptile, you'll... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...t'other. I caught the animal laft night, And view'd it o'er by candle-light : I hiark'd ft well — 'twas black as jet — You ftare->— but, Sirs, I've got...it yet, And can produce it." — " Pray, .Sir, do : I'lllay my life the thing is blue." — "And I'll be' fworn, that when you've feen The reptile, you'll... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...caught the animal laft night, ' And view 'd it o'er by candle-light : ' I mark'd it well — 'twas black as jet — ' You ftare — but, Sirs, I've got it yet, • And can produce it.' " Pray. Sir, do : " I'll lay my life, the thing istlue." ' And I'll be fworn, that when you've feen ' The reptile,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
..." And view'd it o'er by candle-light: " I mark'd it well — 'twas black as jet — " You dare — I wander • I'll lay my life, the thing is blue.' " And I'll be fworn, that when you've feen /•* The reptile,... | |
 | Addison (pseud.) - Anecdotes - 1795 - 616 pages
...I caught the animal laft night, " And view'd it o'er by candle light : " I mark'd it well — 'twas black as jet — " You ftare — but Sirs, I've got...it yet, " And can produce it." — " Pray, Sir, do : " I'll lay my life the thing is blue." " And I'll be fworn that when you've feen " The reptile, you'll... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography - 1794 - 738 pages
...And view'd it o'er by candle-light : " I inark'd it well ; — 'twas black as jet ;— " You flare.; but Sirs, I've got it yet, " And can produce it." — " Pray, Sir, do : " I'll lay my life the thing is blue."— " And I'll be fworn that when you've feen " The reptile,... | |
 | British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 pages
...other. I caught the animal laft night, And view'd it o'er by candle-light : I mark'd it well — -'twas black as jet— You ftare — but, Sirs, I've got it yet, And can produce it." " Pray, Sir, do ; I'll lay my life the thing is blue." And I'll be fworn that, when you've feen• The reptile, you'll... | |
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I'll lay my life the thing is blue." "And I'll be sworn, that when you've seen The reptile, you'll pronounce him green." "Well, then, at once to ease the doubt," Replies the man, "I'll turn him out; And when before your eyes I've set him, If you don't... 
