| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1164 pages
...North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, 2emhla, or the Lord knows where. No creature owns it in the firft degree, 225 But thinks his neighbour further gone than he 1 Ev'n thofe who dwell beneath its very 2one, Or never feel the rage, or never... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 414 pages
...endure, then pity, then embrace. no Bat where th' Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed : Aflc where 's the North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zemhla, or the Lord knows where. No creature owns it in the firft degree, 215 But thinks his neighbour... | |
| Patrick Brydone - Malta - 1780 - 248 pages
...female beauty : they change in every climate ; and the criterion is no where to be found. " Afic wbere's the North ? — at York, 'tis on the Tweed, " In Scotland at the Orcades, and there,— " At Nova Zembla, or the Lord knows where." No two nations, perhaps no two men, have affixed precifely the... | |
| Archibald Bruce - 1780 - 492 pages
...South in the vague geography of the populace : " Aik where's the North? At York, 'tis on the Tweed; ы In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there "• At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where." * A living author wilt) bss diftinguiflied himfelf fo much of late in bebilf of the Roman-Catholic... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...firll endure, then pity,, then embrace. ?2CJ But where th' Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed : Afk where's the North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; In...in the firft degree, 225 But thinks his neighbour further gone than he: Ev'n thofe who dwell beneath its very zone, Or never feel the rage, or never... | |
| 1787 - 652 pages
...thofe, who are three or four years younger than themfelves, by the infantine appellation of girls. " AQc where's the North ? at York 'tis on the Tweed ; in...there At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where."' • To folve this difficult problem, the Author obferves, that the: unwelcome tifft of Old Maid is... | |
| Books - 1787 - 666 pages
...four yrars younger than themfelves, by the infantine appellation of girls. " Atti where's the Norfh ? at York 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland at the Orcades,...there At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where." To folve this difficult problem, the Author obferves, that the unwelcome title of Old Maid is generally... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where th' Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed: Afk where 's the North ? at York, 'tis on the Tweed ; In Scotland,...in the firft degree, 225 But thinks his neighbour further gone than he : Ev'n VARIATIONS. After ver. 220, in the firft Edition followed thefe : A Cheat... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...ne'er agreed J; A(k whcrc's the North • atYork, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcadcs ; But thinks his neighbour further gone than he : Ev'n thofc who dwell beneath its very zone, Or never... | |
| William Creech - English literature - 1791 - 318 pages
...-whztfanaticifm means ? and, upon examination, it will be found to refemble Pope's defcription of the north. Aflc where's the north ?— At York, 'tis on the Tweed...Scotland, at the Orcades ; — and there, At Greenland, Zcmbla, or the Lord knows where. EVERY perfon, according to his own fyftem of indulgence, terms the... | |
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