 | British drama - 1804 - 630 Seiten
...courtiers, think it no harm. Mac. Man may escape from rope and gun, Nay, some have outlived the doctor'» Pill; Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk...woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets. To what a woeful plight have I brought myself ! Here must I (all day long till I am hanged) be cun lined to hear... | |
 | 1804 - 626 Seiten
...no harm. Mac. Man may escape from rope and gun, Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill; 54 GAY.] Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is...woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets. To what a woeful plight have I brought myself ! Here must I (all day long till I am hanged) be confined to hear... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1809 - 166 Seiten
...large drove of calves, I've in my train." " Man may escape from rope and gun ; Nay some have outliv'd the doctor's pill ; Who takes a woman must be undone,...treacle, is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman ruin meets." MACHEATH — BEGGAR'S OPERA. When a prince ascends a tbrone with wrong notions of the... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1809 - 458 Seiten
...large drove of calves, I've in my train." " Man may escape from rope and gun • Nay some have outliv'd the doctor's pill; Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. The fly that sips treacly is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman ruin meets." MACHEATH — BEW.AR'S OPERA. When... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1811 - 698 Seiten
...harm. Mac. Man may escape front rope and gun, Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill; Who lakes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill....woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets. To what a woeful plight have I brought myself! Here must I (all day long till I am hanged) be confined to hear... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 710 Seiten
...Nai/, some have outlived the doctor'» pill; Who takes a woman must be undone, T/uit basilisk is ture to kill. • The fly that sips treacle is lost in...woman, He that tastes woman, ruin meets. To what a woeful plight have I brought myself! Here must I (all day Ions; till I am hanged) be confined to hear... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 420 Seiten
...silence" — but however beautiful the description, defend me from meeting with the original ! '•' The fly that sips treacle Is lost in the sweets ; So he that tastes woman Ruin meets." The song is Gay's, not mine, and a bitter-sweet it is. — How few out of the infinite... | |
 | 1824 - 656 Seiten
...Tarnkey. AIR.— MACHEATH. Man may escape from rope and gun, Nay, some fiave otttliv d the doftor'spilt; Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. Thefy, that sips treacle, is lost in the tweets, So ne that tastes woman, woman, woman, He that tastes... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 432 Seiten
...think it no harm." Man may escape from rope and gun, Nay, some have outlived the doctor's pill ; l\rho takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. Thejly, that sips treacle, is lost in the sweets, So he, that tastes woman, woman, woman, He, that... | |
 | 1829 - 658 Seiten
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Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have out-liv'd the doctor's pill; Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman, woman, woman, He that tastes woman,... 
