 THERE was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love.  Hudibras - Page 77by Samuel Butler - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 pages
...rakes the Fiddler prisoner, Conveys him to inchanted castle, There shnts him fast in wooden Bastile. THERE was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he conld prove, Was made of fighting and of love. Jnst so Romances are, for... | |
 | James Plumptre - Songs, English - 1811 - 486 pages
...late philosophers Have well observ'd, beasts that converse With man take after iiim.— Do. 1. 789. There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over. 'CANTO ii. 1. 1. Whatever sceptic could inquire for, I'orcv'ry why he had a wherefore, CAN ro i. I.... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1816 - 304 pages
...the fiddler prisoner ; Conveys him to inchanted castle, There shuts him fast in wooden bastile. . . THERE was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read Alexander Ross over ; And swore the world as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love : Just so romances are, for... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...takes the Fiddler prisoner, Conveys him to enchanted castle, There shuts him fast in wooden Bastile. THERE was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of righting and of love. Just so Romances are, for... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 430 pages
...Ross, SIR JOHN, commemorated in Dunhar's Lament, but not otherwise known. , Ross, DR. ALEXANDER. " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over ; And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love." Dr. Ross, whose name these... | |
 | Niccolò Forteguerri - Italian poetry - 1822 - 280 pages
...thus I solve this hard phenomenon." And these of Butler, in the same last-mentioned kind of verse : " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over." * Here the 5th foot is analogous to " rtsolvtr*." M Our dodecasyllabics, such as the two lines to which... | |
 | Joseph] [Robertson, Sholto Percy - English poetry - 1822 - 400 pages
...Scot. Ross, SIB JOHN, commemorated in Dunbar's Lament, but not otherwise known. Iloss, Dn. ALEXANDER. " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over ; And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love." Dr. Ross, whose name these... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Great Britain - 1822 - 542 pages
...takes the Fiddler prisoner ; Conveys him to enchanted castle, There shuts him fast in wooden bastile. THERE was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read Alexander Ross over ; And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love : Just so romances are,... | |
 | 1824 - 492 pages
...PANTON, Cheapside, London; and EDWARD WEST & Co. Edinburgh. 3, CUBLL, PRINT EB. MECHANICS' MAGAZINE. * There was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love : Just so romances are ; for... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Library catalogs - 1826 - 672 pages
...Scotland for that express purpose. Of the celebrated couplet, which opens the Second Canto of Hndibrai, There was an ancient sage Philosopher, That had read Alexander Ross over; — Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, W«s beat with fist instead of a stick — it is ." more frequently... | |
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