 | English poetry - 1787 - 446 pages
...DUCK, THE THRASHER AND FAVOUB.1TE POET. A QUIB3LING EPIGRAM. Written in the year 1730. THE Thrasher Duck could o'er the Queen prevail; The proverb says, No fence against a flail. From thrashing corn he turns to thrash his brains, For which her Majesty allows him grains ; 4. Tho' 'tis... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 386 pages
...hang'd up for a rape. ON STEPHEN DUCK, THE THKESHER, AND i'AVOUBITE POET. A ttUIBBLING EPIGRAM. t7301 HE thresher Duck could o'er the queen prevail. The proverb...brains ;> For which her majesty allows him grains: Though 'tis confest, that those, who ever saw His poems, think them not all worth a straw i THE LADY'S... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 472 pages
...following illnatured and jealous Epigram of Swift's. On St. Duck, the Threther and favourite Poet. The Thresher Duck could o'er the "Queen prevail, The proverb says, " no proof against a flail." Trom threshing corn, he turns to thresh his brainc, Tor which her Majesty allows... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 558 pages
...hang'd up for a rape. ON STEPHEN DUCK, , THE THRESHER, AND FAVOURITE POET. A ftUIBBLING EPIGRAM. 1730. THE thresher Duck could o'er the queen prevail, The...his brains; For which her majesty allows him grains: Though 'tis confest, that those, who ever saw His poems, think them not all worth a straw ! Thrice... | |
 | W. Gardiner - 1808 - 786 pages
...with his Life, 8ro. sewed, 3s'. 1763 Swift was piqued at Queen Caroline's notice of Duck, and says, " The Thresher Duck could o'er the Queen prevail, The proverb says, ' no fence aguintt a Jiail," The Life was written by Spence. 674 Drayton's Polyolbion, front, maps, and a remarkably... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...POET. A QUIBBLING EPIGRAM. 1730. THE thresher Duck could o'er the queen prevail ; The proverb saVK, na fence against a flail. From threshing corn he turns...thresh his brains ; For which her majesty allows him graiat. Though 'tis C'infest, that those who ever saw His poems, think them all not worth a ilraa !... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 562 pages
...English de.nn is haug'd up for a rape. OX S Dl'CK. THE THRESHER AND FAVOURITE POET. A QUIBBLINC EFIGEAM. THE thresher Duck could o'er the queen prevail ; The proverb says, no fence ugainat a flail. Fnirn thmhin% corn he turns to thresh his brains ; For which her majesty allows him... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 832 pages
...hang'd up for a rape: ON STEPHEN DUCK, THE THRESHER, AND FAVOURITE POET. A QUIBBLING EPIGRAM. 1730. THE thresher Duck could o'er the queen prevail, The...his brains ; For which her majesty allows him grains : Though 'tis confest, that those, who ever saw His poems, think them not all worth a straw ! Thrice... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 562 pages
...following quibbling epigram, as he calls it, " on Stephen Duck, the thresher and favourite poet :" The thresher Duck could o'er the queen prevail ; The...his brains, For which her majesty allows him grains. Though 'tis confess'd, that those who ever saw His poems, think them all not worth a straw. Thrice... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 560 pages
...the following quibbling epigram, as he calls it, " on Stephen Duck, the thresher and favourite poet:" The thresher Duck could o'er the queen prevail ; The...his brains, For which her majesty allows him grains. Though 'tis confess'd, that those who ever saw His poems, think them all not worth a straw. Thrice... | |
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THE thresher Duck could o'er the queen prevail, The proverb says, " no fence against a flail." From threshing corn he turns to thresh his brains ; For which her majesty allows him grains : Though 'tis confest, that those, who ever saw His poems, think... 
