 | George Huddesford - English poetry - 1801 - 198 pages
...historian, John Grub, heretofore of Christ's church, Oxford, who says of the last of these worthies : " His sword would serve for battle, or for dinner, if...slain a Cheshire man 'twould toast a Cheshire cheese." The Reformation-Dagger of Hudibras seems to have been With the sparks of our patriot-flame While we... | |
 | George Huddesford - 1801 - 196 pages
...historian, John Grub, heretofore of Christ's church, Oxford, who says of the last of these worthies : " His sword would serve for battle, or for dinner, if...slain a Cheshire man 'twould toast a Cheshire cheese." The Reformation-Dagger of Hudibras seems to have been With the sparks of our patriot-flame While we... | |
 | George Huddesford - 1801 - 346 pages
...historian, John Grub, heretofore of Christ's church, Oxford, who says of the last of these worthies : " His sword would serve for battle, or for dinner, if...had slain a Cheshire man 'twould toast a Cheshire With the sparks of our patriot-flame While we freely enlighten our neighbours. From these sparks you... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 456 pages
...tergivers'd, But was for adverse drubbing, And never turn'd his back to aught, 45 But to a post for scrubbing. His sword would serve for battle, or For dinner, if...slain a Cheshire man, "Twould toast a Cheshire cheese. 50 He wounded, and, in their own blood, Did anabaptize Pagans : But George he made the dragon an Example... | |
 | William Bennett (solicitor.) - 1822 - 1116 pages
...Tenbigh," replied Merodoc ; " why dost thou ask ?" " Only," returned Vernoun, because the song says — " His sword would serve for battle, or For dinner, if...slain a Cheshire man, Twould toast a Cheshire cheese." " Py my faith, the song lies most apominably," cried the indignant Cambrian, " for it is like, look... | |
 | Thomas Jeffrey Llewelyn Prichard - English poetry - 1828 - 214 pages
...But was for adverse drubbing, 61 And never turn'd his back to aught, £xcept a post for scrubbing.* His sword would serve for battle, or, For dinner if you please ; When it bad slain a Cheshire man 'Twonld toast a Cheshire cheese. He wounded, and in their own blood Did anabaptize... | |
 | John Holland - Ironwork - 1833 - 390 pages
...their poetical historian John Grub, heretofore of Christ's Church, Oxford, who says of the latter — " His sword would serve for battle, or for dinner, if you please j When it had slain a Cheshire man, 't would toast a Cheshire cheese." The all- work dagger of Hudibras... | |
 | 1833 - 222 pages
...their poetical historian John Grub, heretofore of Christ's Church, Oxford, who says of the latter — " His sword would serve for battle, or for dinner, if...a Cheshire man, 'twould toast a Cheshire cheese." The all-work dagger of Hudibras seems to have been equallyadroit and accommodating with the swords... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Poets, English - 1835 - 456 pages
...called them Sir Peter, Sir Paul, Sir George. — The sword of St. George is thus ludicrously described. His sword would serve for battle, or for dinner, if...slain a Cheshire man 'twould toast a Cheshire cheese. * Nor engine, nor device polemic, Disease, nor doctor epidemic,"} The plain meaning is — not military... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 344 pages
...tergivers'd, But was for adverse drubhing, And never turn'd his back to aught, Bot to a post for scrubhing. His sword would serve for battle, or For dinner, if...a Cheshire man, 'Twould toast a Cheshire cheese." No, no ! Burrows was no Pendragon. VOL. VI. — NO. VI. Dillon, whom the roughness of the weather had... | |
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But to a post for scrubbing. His sword would serve for battle, or For dinner, if you please ; When it had slain a Cheshire man 'Twould toast a Cheshire cheese. 
