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... kind ; the learning , wit , and humour , certainly stand unrivalled : various have been the attempts to define or describe the two last ; the greatest English writers have tried in vain , Cowley , ' Barrow , Dryden , " AUTHOR OF ...
... kind ; the learning , wit , and humour , certainly stand unrivalled : various have been the attempts to define or describe the two last ; the greatest English writers have tried in vain , Cowley , ' Barrow , Dryden , " AUTHOR OF ...
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... kind ; for if we examine Lucian's Tragopodagra , and other dialogues , the Cæsars of Julian , Seneca's Apocolocyntosis , and 2 Or the mock deification of Claudius ; a burlesque of Apotheosis , some fragments of Varro , they will be ...
... kind ; for if we examine Lucian's Tragopodagra , and other dialogues , the Cæsars of Julian , Seneca's Apocolocyntosis , and 2 Or the mock deification of Claudius ; a burlesque of Apotheosis , some fragments of Varro , they will be ...
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... kind for fruit renown'd , But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Decan , spreads his arms , Branching so broad and long , that in the ground The bended twigs take root , and daughters grow About the mother tree ; a ...
... kind for fruit renown'd , But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Decan , spreads his arms , Branching so broad and long , that in the ground The bended twigs take root , and daughters grow About the mother tree ; a ...
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... Pisistratidarum Athenis instaurare auderet , ubi cantitaretur Ekóλtov illud Callistrati . - See also Israelitarum ETTIVIKOV , Isaiah , chapter xiv . Of this kind was the famous Irish song called Lilliburlero xxviii ON SAMUEL BUTLER , Esq .
... Pisistratidarum Athenis instaurare auderet , ubi cantitaretur Ekóλtov illud Callistrati . - See also Israelitarum ETTIVIKOV , Isaiah , chapter xiv . Of this kind was the famous Irish song called Lilliburlero xxviii ON SAMUEL BUTLER , Esq .
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... kind in modern days was the song of God save great George our King , and the Ça ira of Paris . Thus wonderfully did Hudibras operate in beating down the hypocrisy , and false patriotism of his time . Mr. Hayley gives a cha- racter of ...
... kind in modern days was the song of God save great George our King , and the Ça ira of Paris . Thus wonderfully did Hudibras operate in beating down the hypocrisy , and false patriotism of his time . Mr. Hayley gives a cha- racter of ...
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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...