 The counsel's good, a Fox replies, Could we perform what you advise. Think what our ancestors have done — • A line of thieves from son to son ! To us descends the long disgrace, And infamy hath mark'd our race. Though we, like harmless sheep, should...  Bell's Edition - Страница 48по John Bell - 1797Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 страници
...to share the feast. The change would never be believed : — a lost good name is ne'er retrieved." " Nay, then," replies the feeble Fox, — " but hark, I hear a hen that clucks ! go ; but be moderate in your food ; a chicken, too, might do me good." 17.—EARLY RISING.—iudy... | |
 | John Cuthbertson - 1886 - 486 страници
...eluching, not a brooding or hatching hen ; but the passage shows that the spelling eloch was known. "Nay then," replies the feeble fox, " But hark, I hear a hen that elochs ! - Go, but be moderate in your food : A chicken too might do me good." — Gay. Our serving-men... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1892 - 668 страници
...feast. The change shall never be believed. A lost good name is ne'er retrieved. " Nay, then," replks the feeble Fox — " But, hark ! I hear a hen that clocks : Go, but be moderate in your food ; A chicken, too, might do me good." THE SHEPHERD'S DOG. A SHEPHERD'S... | |
 | John Gay - 1893 - 420 страници
...thieves from son to son : To us descends the long disgrace, And infamy hath mark'd our race. . 40 Though we, like harmless sheep, should feed, Honest in thought, in word, and deed, Whatever hen-roost is decreased, We shall be thought to share the feast. The change shall never be believed. A lost good... | |
 | John Gay - 1893 - 422 страници
...thieves from son to son : To us descends the long disgrace, And infamy hath mark'd our race. Though we, like harmless sheep, should feed , Honest in thought, in word, and deed, Whatever hen-roost is decreased, We shall be thought to share the feast. The change shall never be believed. 45 A lost good... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1893 - 332 страници
...thieves from son to son : To us descends the long disgrace, And infamy hath mark'd our race. Though we, like harmless sheep, should feed, Honest in thought, in word, and deed ; Whatever hen-roost is decreased, We shall be thought to share the feast. The change shall never be believed. A lost good... | |
 | John Gay - 1893 - 426 страници
...thieves from son to son : To us descends the long disgrace, And Infamy hath mark'd our race. 40 Though we, like harmless sheep, should feed, Honest in thought, in word, and deed, Whatever hen-roost is decreased, We shall be thought to share the feast. The change shall never be believed. 45 A lost good... | |
 | 1894 - 288 страници
...harmless sheep, should feed, Honest in thought, in word, in deed, Whatever hen-roost is decreased, We shall be thought to share the feast. The change shall never be believed — A lost good name is ne'er retrieved." "Nay, then," replies the feeble Fox — " But, hark... | |
 | Frank Townsend Southwick - 1894 - 266 страници
...like harmless sheep should feed, Honest in thought, in word, in deed, Whatever hen roost is decreased, We shall be thought to share the feast. The change shall never be believed : A lost good name is ne'er retrieved. " "Nay, then," replies the feeble Fox — " But hark... | |
 | Frank Townsend Southwick - 1896 - 264 страници
...like harmless sheep should feed, Honest in thought, in word, in deed, Whatever hen roost is decreased, We shall be thought to share the feast. The change shall never be believed: A lost good name is ne'er retrieved." "Nay, then," replies tho feeble Fox— '' But hark!... | |
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