 | Panorama - 1809 - 368 sider
...in wonder lost, To hear his ass speak : — asses now talk most. A GOOD EPIGRAM. THE qualities rare in a Bee that we meet, In an Epigram never should...always be little and sweet. And a sting should be left in its tail. ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN MARY. THE queen deceas'd so pleas'd, the king so griev'd* As... | |
 | 1812 - 656 sider
...PORTSMOUTH crowns the SOLENT'S * tide ! EPIGRAM ON AN EPIGRAM. TROM THE SPANISH O» DON JUAN DE YEIAHTE. THE qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram...that divides the main land from the Isle of Wight. EPILOGUE, TO THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. SPOKEN BY FALSTAFF. 1761. B'X FVC MUNDY, ESQ. S, what a fury... | |
 | Thomas Condie - 1813 - 262 sider
...nations bow, Shull rot bu Iiaif so truly blist, As Fa-Fe-Fum and Ho-ang Ho. EPIGRAM ON AN EPIGRAM. The qualities all in a bee that we meet. In an epigram...should fail ; The body should always be little and swet' And the sting should be felt in the tail. CONDITIONS. A No. will be published every Saturday... | |
 | 1818 - 596 sider
...farces, His equal there scarce is ; His farces are physic, His physic a farce-is 1 EPIGRAM ON AN EPIGRAM. The qualities all in a bee that we meet In an epigram...and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail. ISUgant Impromptus, DR. YOUNG. — One day as Dr. Young was walking in his garden, " at Wrlwyn, in... | |
 | 1831 - 512 sider
...Levitical law : — " Every creeping thing is unclean, and shall be an abomination." EPIGRAM ON AN EPIGRAM. The qualities all In a bee that we meet. In an Epigram...The body should always be little and sweet. And a itlng should be felt In Its tall. HI *. Wednesday, August 25. St.GregtryofVtrecM. ab. d. tlR.—Htfh... | |
 | 1882 - 858 sider
...when it as nearly as possible answers to the description given in the quatrain : The qualities rare in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should...always be little and sweet, And a sting should be left in its tail The above quatrain indicates a very limited idea of the scope of the epigram, and... | |
 | Epigrams - 1865 - 398 sider
...must epigrams, like bees, have all : A sting and honey, and a body small.' RILEY. ' The qualities rare in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should...always be little and sweet, And a sting should be left in its tail.' ' An epigram should be, if right, Short, simple, pointed, keen, and bright, A lively... | |
 | John Booth - 1865 - 400 sider
...must epigrams, like bees, have all : A sf1nf and honey, and a body small.' RILEY. ' The qualities rare in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should...always be little and sweet, And a sting should be left in its tail.' ' An epigram should be, if right, Short, simple, pointed, keen, and bright, A lively... | |
 | Anonymous - 1865 - 602 sider
...in 1809, we find what seems a free translation of the epigram given above : — ' The qualities rare in a bee that we meet In an epigram never should fail...always be little and sweet, And a sting should be left in its tail." And the same idea pervades the epigram of Leasing ' On a volume of epigrams,' which... | |
 | 1865 - 600 sider
...we find what seems a free translation of the epigram given above :— ' The qualities rare in a beo that we meet In an epigram never should fail: The body should always be little and sweet, And a utini/ should lie left in its tail.' And the same idea pervades the epigram of Lessing ' On a volume... | |
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The qualities rare in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail : The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be left in its tail. 
