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... line to find out the originals . " When I first undertook this work , it was designed that the " whole should be comprised in two volumes : the first compre- " hending the poem , the second the notes , but the thickness of ' the paper ...
... line to find out the originals . " When I first undertook this work , it was designed that the " whole should be comprised in two volumes : the first compre- " hending the poem , the second the notes , but the thickness of ' the paper ...
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... line was in my mind : Raucaque garrulitas , studiumque inane loquendi ; for they talk so much , they have not time to think ; and if they had all the wit in the world , their tongues would run before it . " The present king of France is ...
... line was in my mind : Raucaque garrulitas , studiumque inane loquendi ; for they talk so much , they have not time to think ; and if they had all the wit in the world , their tongues would run before it . " The present king of France is ...
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... lines : While Butler , needy wretch , was yet alive , No generous patron would a dinner give ; See him , when starved to death , and turn'd to dust , Preserted with a monumental bust . The poet's fate is here in emblem shown , He ask'd ...
... lines : While Butler , needy wretch , was yet alive , No generous patron would a dinner give ; See him , when starved to death , and turn'd to dust , Preserted with a monumental bust . The poet's fate is here in emblem shown , He ask'd ...
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... lines with great propriety : " Unrivall'd Butler ! blest with happy skill " To heal by comic verse each serious ill , " By wit's strong flashes reason's light dispense , " And laugh a frantic nation into sense . " For one great object ...
... lines with great propriety : " Unrivall'd Butler ! blest with happy skill " To heal by comic verse each serious ill , " By wit's strong flashes reason's light dispense , " And laugh a frantic nation into sense . " For one great object ...
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... lines that seem to favor the conceit . Dryden and Addison have censured Butler for his double rhymes ; the latter nowhere argues worse than upon this subject : " If , " says he , " the thought in the 66 couplet be good , the rhymes add ...
... lines that seem to favor the conceit . Dryden and Addison have censured Butler for his double rhymes ; the latter nowhere argues worse than upon this subject : " If , " says he , " the thought in the 66 couplet be good , the rhymes add ...
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Æneid agen alludes Anabaptists ancient arms astrologer b'ing bear bear-baiting beard beast Bishop Bishop Warburton blood blows bus'ness Butler called canto cause Cerdon character cheat chimæra church common conscience covenant Cromwell death Democritus devil divine dogs Don Quixote ears editions enemy ev'ry false fear feats fight French give hand haste head honour horse Independents king king's Knight lady learned lines Lord Lord Clarendon means ne'er never o'er oath Oliver Cromwell Ovid Paracelsus parliament perhaps person philosophers Plutarch poem poet pow'r Presbyterians pretended quæ Quoth Hudibras Ralpho resolv'd Roman rump rump parliament saints Samuel Butler satire says sense Sidrophel signifies Sir Roger L'Estrange soul Squire supposed swear sword tell thee thing thou thought tion true turn turn'd twas us'd verse Whachum William Lilly witches word wounds
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Page 384 - Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God, that ye may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of captains and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men both free and bond, both small and great.
Page 17 - While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give ; See him, when starved to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone.
Page 45 - ... lies In odd perverse antipathies, In falling out with that or this And finding somewhat still amiss; More peevish, cross and splenetic Than dog distract or monkey sick: That with more care keep holyday The wrong...
Page 417 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Page 167 - Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Page 234 - Into his hands, or hang th' offender : But they maturely having weigh'd, They had no more but him o...
Page 41 - He understood b' implicit faith; 130 Whatever sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore ; Knew more than forty of them do, As far as words and terms could go; All which he understood by rote, And, as occasion...
Page 322 - Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?
Page 368 - Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you, seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business ; but we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Page 387 - O' th' compass in their bones and joints, Can by their pangs and aches find All turns and changes of the wind. And better than by Napier's bones Feel in their own the age of moons...