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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: VERSES WRITTEN AT BATH, ON FINDING THE HEEL OF A SHOE, 1748. Fortune! I thank thee: gentle goddess ! thanks ! Not that my Muse, tho' bashful, shall deny She would have thanked thee rather hadst thou cast A treasure in her way; for neither meed Of early breakfast, to dispel the fumes And bowel-racking pains of emptiness, Nor noon-tide feast, nor evening's cool repast, Hopes she from this presumptuous, tho', perhaps, The cobbler, leather-carving artist, might. Nathless she thanks thee, and accepts thy boon Whatever, not as erst the fabled cock, Vain-glorious fool! unknowing what he found, Spurn'd the rich gem, thou gav'sthim. Wherefore ah ! Why not on me that favour (worthier sure) Conferr'dst thou, goddess ! Thou art blind, thou say'st; Enough thy blindness shall excuse the deed. Nor does my Muse no benefit exhale From this thy scant indulgence ! even here, Hints, worthy sage philosophy, are found; Illustrious hints, to moralize my song ! This pond'rous heel of perforated hide Compact, with pegs indented, many a row, Haply, (for such its massy form bespeaks, ) The weighty tread of some rude peasant clown Upbore: on this supported oft, he stretch'd, With uncouth strides, along the furrow'd glebe, P'latt'ning the stubborn clod, 'till cruel time, ( What will not cruel time ?) on a wry step, Sever'd the strict cohesion; when, alas ! He, who could erst, with even, equal pace, Pursue his destin'd way with symmetry, And some proportion form'd, now, on one side, Curtail'd and maim'd, the sport of vagrant boys, Cursing his frail supporter, treacherous prop ! With toilsome steps, and difficult, moves on. Thus fares it oft with other than the feet Of bumble villager the statesman thus, Up the steep road, where proud ambit...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217900669
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 86
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217900666
  • Publisher Date: 16 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 168 gr


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