| Andrew Becket - 1787 - 494 pages
...3, S. 2. You may as well go ftand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his ufual height ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To. wag their high tops, and to make no noife, When they arc fretted with the gufts of heaven ; You may as well do any thing moft hard, As... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1789 - 640 pages
...height ; You may as well ufe queftion with a wolf, When you behold the ewe bleat for the lamb j You m.'\ as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to nuke a umfe When they are fretted with the gufts of heaven ; You may as well do any thing mod hard.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1790 - 598 pages
...height ; YCÜ may as well ufc queftion with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb; You eft ? Prefix'd for his parting : yet, good deec! 4, Leontes I love thee not noife, Whin they are fretted with the gulls of heaven ; You may as well do any thing molt hard, As... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1790 - 694 pages
...— Weary feven nights, nine times nine, (hall he dwindle, peake and pine Macbeth, Pine [tree] You may as well forbid the mountain pines to wag their high tops M. fVcn. — Behind the tuft of pines I met them - - Winter's Talc, i — Thus droops this lofty pine,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...height ; You may as well ufe queftiont with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You iorten'd fword to ftab in clofcr war; Bu? in fair combat fight with manly ft noifc, When they are fretted with the gufts of heaven ¥,ou may as well dp any thing moft hard, As... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1791 - 702 pages
...— Weary feven nights, nine times nine, lhall he dwindle, peake and pine Mactclb. I Fine, [tree] You may as well forbid the mountain pines to wag their high tops M. cf yen. 4 — Behind the tuft ot pines I met them H'intrr'i Tab. 1 — Thus droops this lofty pine,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1797 - 644 pages
...height ; You may as well ufe queftion with the wolf, ' Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noife, When they are fretted with the gufts of heaven ; You may as well do any thing moft hard, As... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1797 - 596 pages
...height ; You may as well ufe queftion with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noife, When they are fretted with the gulte of heaven; You may as well do any thing moft hard, :* As... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1800 - 436 pages
...height ; You may as well ufe queftion with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb ; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noife, "When they are fretted with the gufts of heaven ; You may as well do any thing moft hard, As... | |
| 1802 - 442 pages
...advances towards what it likes, and withdraws from what it loathes. Ihid. " You may as well forhid the mountain pines " To wag their high tops, and to..." When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven." • To " forhid to make no noise>" should be to command some noise to be made ; yet " hid" and " forhid"... | |
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