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... fortune in the cause , being the only person exempted from the benefit of the treaty , when Worcester surrendered to the parlia- ment in the year 1646. Our poet's father was churchwarden of the parish the year before his son Samuel was ...
... fortune in the cause , being the only person exempted from the benefit of the treaty , when Worcester surrendered to the parlia- ment in the year 1646. Our poet's father was churchwarden of the parish the year before his son Samuel was ...
Page ix
... fortune , indeed , was small , and so was his ambition ; his integrity of life , and modest temper , rendered him con- tented . However , there is good authority for believing that at one time he was gratified with 7 CHARLES R. Our will ...
... fortune , indeed , was small , and so was his ambition ; his integrity of life , and modest temper , rendered him con- tented . However , there is good authority for believing that at one time he was gratified with 7 CHARLES R. Our will ...
Page xiii
... fortune , but , through various losses , and knavery , he found himself disappointed : to this some have attributed his severe strictures upon the professors of the law ; but if his censures be properly considered , they will be found ...
... fortune , but , through various losses , and knavery , he found himself disappointed : to this some have attributed his severe strictures upon the professors of the law ; but if his censures be properly considered , they will be found ...
Page xv
... fortunes by the great , " That wit and pride are always dangerous things , “ And little faith is due to courts and kings . " In the year 1721 , John Barber , an eminent printer , and alderman of London , erected a monu- ment to our poet ...
... fortunes by the great , " That wit and pride are always dangerous things , “ And little faith is due to courts and kings . " In the year 1721 , John Barber , an eminent printer , and alderman of London , erected a monu- ment to our poet ...
Page xxx
... fortune - telling , incredible relations of travellers , false wit and injudicious affectation of ornament to be found in the poets , romance writers , & c . thus he frequently alludes to Purchas's Pil- grim , Sir Kenelm Digby's books ...
... fortune - telling , incredible relations of travellers , false wit and injudicious affectation of ornament to be found in the poets , romance writers , & c . thus he frequently alludes to Purchas's Pil- grim , Sir Kenelm Digby's books ...
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Page 217 - 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, 40 thou hast built a paper-mill.
Page 7 - He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination. All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do.
Page 157 - Lyaeum, cum dabit amplexus atque oscula dulcia figet, occultum inspires ignem fallasque veneno.' paret Amor dictis carae genetricis et alas exuit et gressu gaudens incedit luli.
Page 17 - For his religion it was fit To match his learning and his wit: 'Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant...
Page 18 - For nothing else but to be mended; A sect whose chief 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...
Page 259 - The sun and day shall sooner part, Than love or you shake off my heart ; The sun, that shall no more dispense His own, but your bright influence. I'll carve your name on barks of trees, With true-love knots and flourishes, That shall infuse eternal spring, And everlasting flourishing; Drink every letter on't in stum, And make it brisk champaign become.
Page 21 - Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon, To whom our knight, by fast instinct Of wit and temper was so linkt, As if hypocrisy and nonsense Had got the advowson of his conscience. Thus was he gifted and accoutred, We mean on th" inside, not the outward : That next of all we shall discuss ; . Then listen, sirs ; it follows thus. His tawny beard was th...
Page 265 - Are but black patches that she wears, Cut into suns, and moons, and stars...
Page 114 - Church-Discipline, for patching kettle ; No sow-gelder did blow his horn To geld a cat, but cry'd Reform ; The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudg'd away to cry No Bishop...
Page 5 - And styled of war as well as peace (So some rats, of amphibious nature, Are either for the land or water) : But here our authors make a doubt Whether he were more wise or stout...