Tho' sober, but might venture sev'n to one; Contracting, like a dying taper, all His strength, intending with the blow to fall, He struggles up, and having taken wind, Ventures a blow, and strikes the other blind. And now poor Norfolk, having lost his... The Compleat Gamester: In Three Parts ... - Seite 289von Esq. Richard Seymour - 1754 - 324 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1822 - 694 Seiten
...this fit, When Norfolk cock had got the best of it, And Wisbich lay a dying, so that none, Tho' sober, but might venture sev'n to one ; Contracting, like...His strength, intending with the blow to fall, He struggles up, and having taken wind, Ventures a blow, and strikes the other blind. And now poor Norfolk,... | |
| Pierce Egan - 1832 - 426 Seiten
...this fit, When Norfolk cock had got the best of it, And Wisbich lay a dying, so that none, Tho' sober, but might venture sev'n to one ; Contracting, like...His strength, intending with the blow to fall, He struggles up, and having taken wind, Ventures a blow, and strikes the other blind, And now poor Norfolk,... | |
| Pierce Egan - 1832 - 432 Seiten
...this At, When Norfolk cock had got the best ofit And Wisbich lay a dying, so that none, Tho' sober, but might venture sev'n to one ; Contracting, like...dying taper, all His strength, intending with the blow tofaUV He struggles up, and having taken wind, Ventures a blow, and strikes the other blind. And now... | |
| Hedley Peek - 1901 - 530 Seiten
...had got the best of it, And Wisbich lay a dying, so that none, Though sober, but might venture seven to one, Contracting, like a dying Taper, all His strength, intending with the blow to fall, He struggles up, and having taken wind, Ventures a blow, and strikes the other blind. And now poor Norfolk,... | |
| Andrew Steinmetz - 1870 - 462 Seiten
...had got the best of it, And Wisbich lay a dying, so that none, Tho' Sober, but might venture Seven to One ; Contracting, like a dying taper, all His strength, intending with the blow to fall, He struggles up, and Laving taken wind, Ventures a blow, and strikes the other blind ! ' And now poor... | |
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