Hudibras, Volume 1John Murray, 1835 - Poets, English |
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... wound And stab herself with doubts profound , Only to shew with how small pain The sores of Faith are cur'd again ; 170 However , as the passage now stands , it is an inimitable satire upon the old school divines , who were many of them ...
... wound And stab herself with doubts profound , Only to shew with how small pain The sores of Faith are cur'd again ; 170 However , as the passage now stands , it is an inimitable satire upon the old school divines , who were many of them ...
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... wound . Sir Walter Raleigh says , to be strucken with a sword is like a man , but to be strucken with a stick is like a slave . " And had been at the siege of Bullen ; ] Henry VIII . besieged Boulogne in person , July 14 , 1544. He was ...
... wound . Sir Walter Raleigh says , to be strucken with a sword is like a man , but to be strucken with a stick is like a slave . " And had been at the siege of Bullen ; ] Henry VIII . besieged Boulogne in person , July 14 , 1544. He was ...
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... wound a fiddler : we have both Of these the objects of our wroth , 885 890 895 fatalists , and great advocates for predestination . Virgil says , Æn . ix . 1. 95. O genetrix ! quo fata vocas ? aut quid petis istis ? Mortaline manu factæ ...
... wound a fiddler : we have both Of these the objects of our wroth , 885 890 895 fatalists , and great advocates for predestination . Virgil says , Æn . ix . 1. 95. O genetrix ! quo fata vocas ? aut quid petis istis ? Mortaline manu factæ ...
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... wounds nine miles point - blank would solder ; ] Meaning to banter the sympathetic powder , which was to effect the cure of wounds at a distance . It was much in fashion in the reign of James the first . See Sir Kenelm Digby's Discourse ...
... wounds nine miles point - blank would solder ; ] Meaning to banter the sympathetic powder , which was to effect the cure of wounds at a distance . It was much in fashion in the reign of James the first . See Sir Kenelm Digby's Discourse ...
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... wounds do heal ; But men with hands , as thou shalt feel . This said , with hasty rage he snatch'd His gun - shot , that in holsters watch'd ; And bending cock , he levell'd full Against th ' outside of Talgol's skull ; 775 Vowing that ...
... wounds do heal ; But men with hands , as thou shalt feel . This said , with hasty rage he snatch'd His gun - shot , that in holsters watch'd ; And bending cock , he levell'd full Against th ' outside of Talgol's skull ; 775 Vowing that ...
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Æneid Alborach alludes anabaptists ancient arms b'ing bear bear-baiting beard beast Bishop Bishop Warburton blood blows burlesque Butler Cæsar called Canto Cerdon character Chimæra church Colonel Pride conscience Cromwell Crowdero dame dogs Don Quixote ears editions enemy ev'ry false fight French Genuine Remains Gondibert hand hast hath head heart Henry honour horse Julius Cæsar king king's Knight lady learned lord Magnano means ne'er never numbers o'er oath Oliver Cromwell Orsin Ovid parliament perhaps person philosophers poem poet poet's Pope pow'r presbyterians printed Quoth Hudibras Quoth Ralpho R.Cooper rhyme Romans saints Samuel Butler satire says sculp sense shew signifies Sir Roger L'Estrange Squire steed stout supposed swear sword synods tail Talgol thee thing thou thought tion Trulla Twas us'd verse vulgar word wound write δὲ
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Page xxv - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Page 218 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and a verb, and such abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear.
Page 21 - Which always must be carried on And still be doing, never done ; As if religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended.
Page 22 - A sect whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies: In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss; 210 More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick.
Page 227 - Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Page 12 - H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.
Page 22 - ... devotion 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 Holy-day The wrong...
Page 14 - In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater ; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale ; Resolve by sines and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight ; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by algebra.
Page 9 - tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more difficile, Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle...
Page 211 - 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 self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.