 So politic, as if one eye Upon the other were a spy, That, to trepan the one to think The other blind, both strove to blink: And in his dark pragmatic way As busy as a child at play. H...  To-day - 100 psl.redagavo - 1890Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Hugh Walker - 1925 - 344 psl.
...adduced to show it. This is the character of Shaftesbury, or Baron Ashley, as he was then : — " 'Mongst these there was a politician With more heads than a beast in vision, And more intrigues in every one Than all the whores of Babylon ; So politic, as if one eye Upon the... | |
 | Peter D. G. Thomas - 1996 - 302 psl.
...George III and Wilkes, i May 1784. British Museum Collection 6368. 4. A Quondam Friend to Liberty, 'So Politic as if one Eye | Upon the other were a spy'.' A contemporary caricature of John Wilkes. From the author's copy of Bleackley's Life of John Wilkes,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1684 - 352 psl.
...then a Beast in Vision, And more Intrigues in ev'ry one Then all the Whores of Babylon ; So politick, as if one eye Upon the other were a Spy; That to trapan the one to think The other Blind, both strove to blink : And in his dark Pragmatick way As busie... | |
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