 | Collection - 1758 - 358 pages
...ever faw fo fine a blue ?" " Hold there, the other quick replies, " 'Tis green 1 faw it with thefe eyes, " As late with open mouth it lay, " And warm'd it in the funny ray ; " Stretch'd at its eafe the beaft I view'd, " And faw it eat the air for food." " I've... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1765 - 412 pages
...ever faw fo fine a blue ?" " Hold there, the other quick replies, " 'Tis green — I faw it with thefe eyes, *' As late with open mouth it lay, " And warm'd it in the funny ray j " Stretch'd at its eafe the beaft I view'dj " And faw it eat the air for food ?" " I've... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 416 pages
...ever faw fo fine a blue ?" " Hold there, the other quick replies, " 'Tis green -*- 1 faw it with thefe eyes, ** As late with open mouth it lay, !* And warm'd it in the funny ray ; *' Stretch'd at its eafe the beaft I view'd, " And faw it eat the air for food ?" ** I've... | |
 | Thomas Percival - 1781 - 330 pages
...ever faw fo fine a blue ?" " Hold there," the other quick replies, " 'Tis green-—! faw it with thefe eyes, " As late with open mouth it lay, " And warm'd it in the funny ray; " Stretch'd at its eafe the beaft I view'd, " And faw it eat the air for food." " I've feen... | |
 | William Enfield - 1785 - 460 pages
...ever faw fo fine a blue ?" " Hold there, the other quick replies, " 'Tis green — I faw it with thefe eyes, " As late with open mouth it lay, " And warm'd it in the funny ray ; " Stretch'd at its eafe the beaft I view'd, " And faw it eat the air for food." " I've... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pages
...faw fo fine a blue >' " Hold there," the other quick replies, " 'Tis green, — I faw it with theft eyes, " As late with open mouth it lay, " And warm'd it in the funny ray ; " Stretch'd at its cafe the bcaft I view'd, " And faw it cat the air for food." ' I've... | |
 | Addison (pseud.) - 1795 - 616 pages
...ever faw fo fine a blue ?" " Hold there," the other quick replies, " Tis green — I faw it with thefe eyes, " As late with open mouth it lay, " And warm'd it in the funny ray ; " Stretch 'd at its eafe the beaft I view'd, _? And law it eat the air for food," 1 " I've... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pages
...faw I'o fine a blue?" ' Hold there,' the other quick replies, 4 Tis green, — I faw it with thcfe eyes, As late with open mouth it lay, And warm'd it in the funny ray ; Stretch'd at its cafe the bcail I view'd, And faw it eat the air for food.' " I 'vc feen... | |
 | John Wesley - 1794 - 738 pages
...object Dear it. *• Hold there," — the other quick replies, •' 'Tis green,— I faw it with thefe eyes, " As late with open mouth it lay, " And warm'd it in the funny ray ; 41 Stretch'd at its eafe the beaft I view'd, " And faw it eat the air for food." " I've... | |
 | British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 pages
...faw fo fine a blue ?" " Hold there," the other quick replies, " Tis green, — I faw it with thefe eyes, " As late with open mouth it lay, . " And warm'd it in the funny ray ; " Stretch'd at its cafe the beaft I view'd, " And faw it eat the air for food." " I've... | |
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And what a length of tail behind! How slow its pace ! and then its hue — Who ever saw so fine a blue?' 
