 This shows how perfectly the rump And commonwealth in Nature jump : For as a fly, that goes to bed, Rests with his tail above his head ; So, in this mongrel state of ours, The rabble are the supreme powers ; That horsed us on their backs, to show us A...  The poems of George Huddesford - Page 3by George Huddesford - 1801Full view - About this book
 | George Huddesford - 1801 - 346 pages
...THE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE, IN THE YEAR 1793. THEN FIRST PUBLISHED. VOL. II. Le plus saint devoir de 1'homme est L'INSURRECTION. La Fayette. This shews...topsy-turvy animal, his head where his heels should be. Sunft. OLD England is ill at her ease, She a surfeit has got, I can tell ye ; And the cause of Old... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - United States - 1805 - 244 pages
...following simile from the same author, Butler, it is much at his service : " For as a fly, who goes Co bed, Rests with his tail above his head, So in this...state of ours, "the rabble are the Supreme Powers." 99 As she's at present represented* • Many of our luke warm Federalists, seem disposed t« slide... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...same thins: with the stem and compass. This shows how perfectly the rump And commonwealth in Nature That hors'd us on their backs, to show u« A jadish trick at last, and throw us. " The learned rabbins... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 456 pages
...same thing with the stern and compass. This shows how perfectly the rump And commonwealth in Nature jump : For as a fly, that goes to bed, Rests with...state of ours, The rabble are the supreme powers, That hors'd us on their backs, to show us A jadish trick at last, and throw us. 'The learned Rabbins... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...same thing with the stern and compass. This shows how perfectly the rump And commonwealth in Nature jump : For as a fly, that goes to bed, Rests with...state of ours, The rabble are the supreme powers, That hors'd us on their backs, to show us A jadish trick at last, and throw us. 'The learned Rabbins... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 416 pages
...shows how perfeetly the rump \nd eommonwealth in Nature jump: for as a fly, that goes to bed, Itests with his tail above his head; So, in this mongrel state of ours, The rabble are the supreme powers, That hors'd us on their baeks, to show us A jadish triek at last, and throw us. 'The learned Rabbins... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 366 pages
...commonwealth in nature jump. For as a fly that goes to bed, Rests with his tail above his head ; 1610 So, in this mongrel state of ours, The rabble are the supreme powers ; That hors'd us on their backs, to show us A jadish trick at last, and throw us. The learned rabbins... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 584 pages
...commonwealth in nature jump, For as a fly that goes to bed, Rests with his tail above his head ; 16 10 So, in this mongrel state of ours, The rabble are the supreme pow'rs, That hors'd us on their backs to show us A jadish trick at last, and throw us. The learned... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 312 pages
...same thing with the stern and compass. This shows how perfectly the rump And commonwealth in Nature jump: For as a fly, that goes to bed, Rests with his...state of ours, The rabble are the supreme powers, That borsed us on their backs, to show us A jadish trick at last, and throw us. ' The learned Rabbins... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 516 pages
...commonwealth in Nature jump : For as a fly that goes to bed Rests with his tail above his head, 1610 So in this mongrel state of ours The rabble are the supreme powers, That hors'd us on their backs, to show us A jadish trick at last, and throw us. The learned Rabbins... | |
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