 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...  Hudibras; with notes by T.R. Nash - Page 18by Samuel Butler - 1835Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1797 - 722 pages
...2oo Call fire, and sword, and desolation, A godly, thorough Reformation, Which always must becarry'd on, 'And still be doing, never done; As if Religion...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 splenetie,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1805 - 440 pages
...Which always must be carry'd on, And still be doing, never done : As if Religion were intended 205 Jpr 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 : •. .' • ;210 More... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 pages
...mnst be carried on, And still be doing, never done ; As if Religion were intended For nothing else bnt to be mended : A sect ''"' whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies ; In railing ont with that or this, And linding somewhat still amiss ; More peevish, cross, and splenetic,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Great Britain - 1819 - 390 pages
...of unarmed men, women, and children ; shot an old woman into the head, Which always must be carried on, And still be doing, never done ; As if religion...whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies : In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss ; 210 wounded grievously above... | |
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...f Call fire, and sword, and desolation, A godly thorough reformation, Which always must be carry *d on, And still be doing, never done; As if religion...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,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Great Britain - 1822 - 542 pages
...apostolick blows and knocks ; 200 Call fire, and sword, and desolation, A godly thorough reformation, Which always must be carry'd on, And still be doing,...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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Great Britain - 1822 - 532 pages
...Which always must be carry'd on, And still be doing, never done ; As if religion were intended 205 5 * 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 ; 210 More peevish, cross, and... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...Reformation, Which always must be carried on, And still be doing, never done ; As if Religion were intended 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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Reformation, Which always must be carry'd on, And still be doing, never done; As if religion were intended spots the nice admirer take. Twas thus Calypso once each heart alarm'd, Aw'd without virtue, wi In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss; More peevish, cross, and splenetie,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1829 - 346 pages
...out the proportion of notes from Ihe sounds of hammers upon an anvil. ^S^Which always must be earry'd on, And still be doing, never done : As if religion...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... | |
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