 | Thomas Warton - 1781 - 620 pages
...facrificed a fheep, a lion, an ape, arid a fow. Thefe animals were to fymbolife the gradations of ebriety. When a man begins to drink, he is meek and ignorant...lamb, then becomes bold as the lion, his courage is foon tranfformed into the fooliflinefs of the ape, and at laft he wallows in the mire like the fow.... | |
 | Romani - 1824 - 562 pages
...sacrificed a sheep, a lion, an ape, and a sow. These animals were to symbolise the gradations of ebriety. When a man begins to drink, he is meek and ignorant...ape, and at last he wallows in the mire like a sow. Chaucer hence says, in the MANCIPLES PROLOGUE, as the passage is justly corrected by Mr. Tyrwhitt,... | |
 | 1824 - 658 pages
...sacrificed a sheep, a lion, an ape, and a sow. These animals were to symbolise the gradations of ebriety. When a man begins to drink, he is meek and ignorant...ape, and at last he wallows in the mire like a sow. Chaucer hence says, in the MANCIPLES PROLOGUE, as the passage is justly corrected by Mr. Tyrwhitt,... | |
 | Wynnard Hooper - 1824 - 568 pages
...sacrificed a sheep, a lion, an ape, and a sow. These animals were to symbolise the gradations of ebriety. When a man begins to drink, he is meek and ignorant...ape, and at last he wallows in the mire like a sow. Chaucer hence says, in the MANCIPLES PROLOGUE, as the passage is justly corrected by Mr. Tyrwhitt,... | |
 | 1824 - 570 pages
...sacrificed a sheep, a lion, an ape, and a sow. These animals were to symbolise the gradations of ebriety. When a man begins to drink, he is meek and ignorant...ape, and at last he wallows in the mire like a sow. Chaucer hence says, in the MANCIPLES PROLOGUE, as the passage is justly corrected by Mr. Tyrwhitt,... | |
 | Oesterley - 1824 - 620 pages
...sacrificed a sheep, a lion, an ape, and a sow. These animals were to symbolise the gradations of ebriety. When a man begins to drink, he is meek and ignorant...transformed into the foolishness of the ape, and at last he wallpws in the mire like a sow. Chaucer hence says, in the MANCIPLES PROLOGUE, as the passage is justly... | |
 | 1833 - 460 pages
...sacrificed a sheep, a lion, an ape and a sow. These animals were to symbolize the gradations of ebrity. When a man begins to drink he is meek and ignorant...the ape ; and at last he wallows in the mire like the sow. TRUE CONTENTMENT BASED ON MODERATION. — Agar said, "Give me neither poverty nor riches ;"... | |
 | 1853 - 1048 pages
...a sheep, a lion, an ape, and a sow. These animals were to Bray mbolrze the gradations of ebriety . When a man begins to drink he is meek and ignorant...lamb ; then becomes bold as the lion ; his courage soon is transformed into the foolishness of the ape; and at last he wallows in the mire like the sow.... | |
 | Juvenile miscellany - 1842 - 368 pages
...drink he is meek and innocent like the lamb ; then he becomes bold as the lion; soon his boldness is transformed into the foolishness of the ape; and at last he wallows in the mire like a sow. We think, grandmamma, if you have no objection, of writing this legibly on a board, and hanging it... | |
 | Ralph Barnes Grindrod - 1843 - 396 pages
...lion, an ape, and a sow. These animals were intended to be symbolical of the gradations of drunkenness. When a man begins to drink he is meek and ignorant as a lamb; then he becomes bold as a lion; his courage afterwards is transformed into the foolishness... | |
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These animals were to symbolise the gradations of ebriety. When a man begins to drink, he is meek and ignorant as the lamb, then becomes bold as the lion ; his courage is soon transformed into the foolishness of the ape, and at last he wallows in the... 
