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... natural to suppose , that after the restoration , and the publication of his Hudibras , our poet should have * Induced by this injunction , and by the office he held as sec- retary to Richard earl of Carbury , lord president of Wales ...
... natural to suppose , that after the restoration , and the publication of his Hudibras , our poet should have * Induced by this injunction , and by the office he held as sec- retary to Richard earl of Carbury , lord president of Wales ...
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... nature , than any deviation from her ; and prose requires a more proper and natural sense and expres- sion than verse , that has something in the stamp and coin to an- swer for the alloy and want of intrinsic value . I never came among ...
... nature , than any deviation from her ; and prose requires a more proper and natural sense and expres- sion than verse , that has something in the stamp and coin to an- swer for the alloy and want of intrinsic value . I never came among ...
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... nature of the subjects , their not having received the author's last corrections , and many other reasons which might be given , render them less acceptable to the present taste of the public , which no longer relishes the antiquated ...
... nature of the subjects , their not having received the author's last corrections , and many other reasons which might be given , render them less acceptable to the present taste of the public , which no longer relishes the antiquated ...
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... nature of the poem : but the judicious critic will observe , that the poet is not always in a drolling humor , and might not think fit to fall into it in the first line : he chooses his words not by the oddness or uncouthness of the ...
... nature of the poem : but the judicious critic will observe , that the poet is not always in a drolling humor , and might not think fit to fall into it in the first line : he chooses his words not by the oddness or uncouthness of the ...
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... nature , Are either for the land or water . But here our authors make a doubt , Whether he were more wise , or stout . Some hold the one , and some the other ; But howsoe'er they make a pother , The diff'rence was so small , his brain ...
... nature , Are either for the land or water . But here our authors make a doubt , Whether he were more wise , or stout . Some hold the one , and some the other ; But howsoe'er they make a pother , The diff'rence was so small , his brain ...
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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...