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" Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them ? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul — Ay,... "
Sybil Lennard, by the author of 'The young prima donna'. - Page 65
by Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1846
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A Series of Plays: In which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger ...

Joanna Baillie - 1798 - 434 pages
...short.) Man. What says your honour ? There are no serpents in our pleasant fields. De Mon. Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide...spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul — Ay, till its healthful frame Is chang'd to secret, fest'ring, sore disease, So deadly is the wound....
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A series of plays, in which it is attempted to delineate the ..., Volume 1

Joanna Baillie - 1800 - 430 pages
...short.) MM, What says your honour ? There are no serpents in our pleasant fields. De Mon. Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide...spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul — Ay, till its healthful frame Is chang'd to secret, fest'ring, sore disease, So deadly is the wound....
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The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the ...

Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 446 pages
...short. Mon. What says your honour ? There are no serpents in our pleasant fields. De Mon. Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world, But those who...spotted skins in fortune's sun, And sting the soul — Ay, till its healthful frame Is chang'd to secret, fest'ring, sore disease, So deadly is the wound....
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The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the ...

Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 428 pages
...short. Man, What says your honour ? There are no serpents in our pleasant fields. De Mon. Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world, But those who...them ! There are, who, in the path of social life, Dp bask their spotted skins in fortune's sun, And sting the soul—Ay, till its healthful frame Is...
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The Road to Ruin: Comedy in Five Acts

Thomas Holcroft - 1808 - 428 pages
...short. Man. What says your honour ? There are no serpents in our pleasant fields. De Man. Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world, But those who...sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them t There are, who, in the path of social life, Do bask their spotted skins in fortune's sun, And sting...
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The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Volume 3

1811 - 418 pages
...short. Man. What says your honour! There are no serpents in our pleasant fields. De Man. Tbink'st thou there are no serpents in the world, But those who...life, Do bask their spotted skins in fortune's sun, VOL. III. Q And sting the soul — A}-, till its healthful frame Is chang'd to secret, fest'ring, sore...
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Warbeck of Wolfsteïn, Volume 1

Miss Holford (Margaret) - 1820 - 362 pages
...it, — it would be heard, though she made as though she did not hear it ! CHAPTER X. " Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide...sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them ?" Joanna JBaillie. THE portrait, which had thus mysteriously made its appearance at Marchfeldt castle,...
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A Series of Plays, Volume 1

Joanna Baillie - 1821 - 428 pages
...honour ? There are no serpents in our pleasant fields. DeMon. Think'st thou there are no serpentsin the world, But those who slide along the grassy sod,...spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul — Ay, till its healthful frame Is chang'd to secret, fest'ring, sore disease, So deadly is the wound....
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A series of plays, in which it is attempted to delineate the ..., Volume 1

Joanna Baillie - 1821 - 426 pages
...honour ? There are no serpents in our pleasant fields. DeMon. Think'st thou there are no serpentsin the world, But those who slide along the grassy sod,...spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul — Ay, till its healthful frame Is chang'd to secret, fest'ring, sore disease, So deadly is the wound....
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The feuds of Luna and Perollo; or, The fortunes of the house of ..., Volumes 1-2

Luna (fict.name.) - 1821 - 584 pages
...comparison to his disadvantage. i I CHAPTER VII. Think'st thou there are no serpents in tlie world liut those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot which presses them ? There are who in the paths of social life L>o bask their spotted skins in fortune's...
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