| Samuel Butler - 1684 - 352 pàgines
...Horoscopy, Astrology, And was old Dog at Physiology ; But, as a Dog that turns the spit, Bestirs himself, and plies his feet, To climb the Wheel; but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again : And still he's in the self-same place, Where at his setting out he was. So in the Circle of the Arts,... | |
| 1809 - 418 pàgines
...Jarrold leaves the subject where- he found jt, and ' Like as a dog that turns the spit, Bestirs himself and plies his feet^ To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again, And still he's in the self same place . / 'VVhere at his setting out he was.' The ninth section treats... | |
| 1852 - 394 pàgines
...field in a pair of pann upon a horse's back. Turnspit. " a dog that turns the spit, Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel ; but all in vain, His own weight brings him back again, And still he's in the self-same place Where, at his setting out, he was." — Hudibras.... | |
| 1834 - 700 pàgines
...by continued exercise in a kind of tread wheel. " But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel ; but all in vain, His own weight brings him back again, And still he "s in the self-same place Where, at his setting out, he was." Hudibra*. According... | |
| Staff - 1846 - 626 pàgines
...rather, in the language of Hudibras— " Like as a dog who turns the spit, Bestirs himself, and moves his feet To climb the wheel; but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again." Your committee feel that it is unnecessary to offer any further observations on the importance of the... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 656 pàgines
...old dog at physiology : But, as a dog that turns the spit, Bestirs himself, and plies his feet 210 To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again ; And still he's in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was : So in the circle of the arts... | |
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