 Lion-cub, of sordid mind, Avoided all the lion kind; Fond of applause, he sought the feasts Of vulgar and ignoble beasts; With asses all his time he spent, Their club's perpetual president. He caught their manners, looks, and airs; An ass in everything...  Frank: A Sequel to Frank in Early Lessons - Page 210by Maria Edgeworth - 1822Full view - About this book
 | John Gay - 1796 - 284 pages
...write, To set their worth in truest light. A LION-CUB, of sordid mind, Avoided all the LION kind ; Fond of applause, he sought the feasts Of vulgar and ignoble beasts ; With ASSES all his time he spent, Their club's perpetual president. He caught their manners, looks,... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...write, To set their worth in truest light. A Lion-cub, of sordid mind, Avoided all the lion-kind j Fond of applause, he sought the feasts Of vulgar and ignoble beasts ; With asses all his time he spent, Their club's perpetual president, He caught their manners, looks,... | |
 | Christopher Anstey, John Anstey - 1808 - 600 pages
...merita stet sibi luce decus. Degener et turpi juvenis Leo pectore fertur Omne leoninum deseruisse genus; Fond of applause, he sought the feasts Of vulgar and ignoble beasts ; With asses all his time he spent, Their club's perpetual president; He caught their manners, looks,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...write, To set their worth in truest light. A Lion-cub, of sordid mind, Avoided all the lion-kind ; y other thought bereft, Is anxious only where to place the left ; ; With asses all his time he spent ; Their club's perpetual president, He caught their manners, looks,... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1826 - 376 pages
...I write, To set their worth in truest light A Lion-cub, of sordid mind, Avoided all the lion kind; Fond of applause, he sought the feasts Of vulgar and ignoble beasts; With asses all his time he spent, Their club's perpetual1 president. He caught their manners, looks,... | |
 | Epictetus, Samuel Croxall, John Gay, William Cowper, Alexander Pope, Jean de La Fontaine, Ignacy Krasicki, James Merrick, Charles Denis, John Tapner - Animals - 1832 - 388 pages
...it. FABLE CXLIV. Hion arft tfie [From GAY.] A LION-CUB, of sordid mind, Avoided all the LION kind ; Fond of applause, he sought the feasts Of vulgar and ignoble beasts : With Asses all his time he spent, Their club's perpetual president. He caught their manners, looks,... | |
 | Anne Parker - 1835 - 302 pages
...I write, To set their worth in truest light. A Lion-cub, of sordid mind, Avoided all the Lion kind; Fond of applause, he sought the feasts Of vulgar and ignoble beasts; With asses all his time he spent, Their club's perpetual president. He caught their manners, looks,... | |
 | John Gay - 1842 - 236 pages
...write, To set their worth in truest light. A Lion-cub, of sordid mind, Avoided all the lion kind ; Fond of applause, he sought the feasts Of vulgar and ignoble beasts ; With asses all his time he spent, Their club's perpetual president. He caught their manners, looks,... | |
 | John Gay - Fables, English - 1854 - 312 pages
...write, To set their worth in truest light. A Lion-cub, of sordid mind, Avoided all the lion kind ; Fond of applause, he sought the feasts Of vulgar and ignoble beasts ; With asses all his time he spent, Their club's perpetual president. He caught their manners, looks,... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - 300 pages
...write, To set their worth in truest light. A Lion-cub, of sordid mind, Avoided all the lion kind ; Fond of applause, he sought the feasts Of vulgar and ignoble beasts ; "With asses all his time he spent, Their club's perpetual president. He caught their manners, looks,... | |
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