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Nor knows our youth, of noblest race, To mount the manag'd steed, or urge the chace; More skill'd in the mean arts of vice, The whirling troque, or law-forbidden dice. FAVOURS of every kind are doubled when they are speedily conferred. This is particularly true of the gratification of curiosity.
Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burthen of threescore."* *The Traveller. In the towns where no one listened to his flute, and in Italy where almost every peasant played better than he, he entered the colleges and disputed.
All quarrels expir'd in universal shouts, and a sumptuous banquet that followed, spread equal mirth through the whole company: The vessel rung with songs, the ensigns of their joy: and the occasion of a sudden calm, gave other diversions: Here a little artist bob'd for fish, that rising, seem'd with haste to meet their ruin: There another draws the unwilling prey, that he had betray'd on the hook, with an inviting bait: When looking up, we saw sea-birds sitting on the sail-yard, about which, one skill'd in that art having plac'd lime-twigs, made 'em his booty.
But his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth, his mouth itself seemed choked with ashes; there came upon him a dimness of sight, a rushing sound in his ears, and the powers of life were for a time suspended. A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the common weal. POPE'S Homer.
A pickaxe or a bill! A hook to reap, or a scythe to mow, A flail, or what ye will And here's a ready hand To ply the needful tool, And skill'd enough, by lessons rough, In Labour's rugged school. HOOD. Higgins's door was locked the next day, when they went to pay their call on the widow Boucher: but they learnt this time from an officious neighbour, that he was really from home.
For he is not engaged in actual conflict; he is not armed for the fray; his speeches are made for display, like foils. Aeschines shall come on like aeserninus, as Lucilius says "No ordinary man, but fearless all, And skill'd his arms to wield his equal match Pacideianus stands, than whom the world Since the first birth of man hath seen no greater."
Wadman, by a manoeuvre as quick as thought, would as certainly place her's close beside it; this at once opened a communication, large enough for any sentiment to pass or re-pass, which a person skill'd in the elementary and practical part of love-making, has occasion for Thine, dear uncle Toby! was never now in 'ts right place Mrs.
Alex Buchan, Landskip Draftsman to Mr. Banks, a Gentleman well skill'd in his profession and one that will be greatly missed in the Course of this Voyage.
I wonder'd too. A nightingale, Nature's best skill'd musician, undertakes The challenge; and for every several strain The well-shaped youth could touch, she sang him down. He could not run divisions with more art Upon his quaking instrument than she, The nightingale, did with her various notes Reply to.
When Chrysis found I had read the reproach, "This is the custom, sir," said she, "and chiefly of this city, where the women are skill'd in magick-charms, enough to make the moon confess their power, therefore the recovery of any useful instrument of love becomes their care; 'tis only writing some soft tender things to my lady, and you make her happy in a kind return.
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