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 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 pages
...respective poems ; but critics and grammarians have taken the pains to do it for them. HUDIBRAS. CANTO III. AY me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron ! 1 What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still with after claps ! For tho' dame Fortune seem... | |
 | George Spencer Phillips - 1839 - 200 pages
...caligraphic namesake. Butler must have had a steel pen in his eye, or hand, when he wrote the couplet— " Ah me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron;" for authors are an irritable race, and the motto, " PENSB a bien," does not always guide those fingers... | |
 | Songs, English - 1840 - 652 pages
...For love hath wrought my misery. Warren's Collection, No. 12. CANON (three in one).— TRAVERS. I AH, me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron. I Warren's Collection, No. 1. GLEE, for 4 Voices. — Irish Air, harmonized by BIGGS. (Soprano, Alto,... | |
 | Richard Harris Barham - 1841 - 926 pages
...II. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. SOME ACCOUNT OF MY COUSIN NICHOLAS. CHAPTER I. Ah me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron ! HUDIBRAS. MOW nnr TBB BBAVV?—AN APPOINTMENT.—AN AFFAIR OF BENTIMENT.— AN AFFAIR OF BONOUR.... | |
 | 1844 - 520 pages
...familiarity as to force us to smile, contains a philosophy verified by the experience of ages : — " Ah me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still with after-claps ! For tho1 dame Fortune seem to... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1845 - 468 pages
...his party also, into the hands of Lord De la Zouch ? Saith the immortal author of Hudibras — " Ah me, what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron I " But Gammon was disposed to make an exclamation in a similar tone, though of a different sort —... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...While none who saw them could divine To which side conquest would incline. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 7. Ah me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron ! For tho' Dame Fortune seem to smile, And leer upon him for a while, She'll after show him, in the... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...While none who saw them could divine To which side conquest would incline. BUTLER'S Hudibras, 7. Ah me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron ! For tho' Dame Fortune seem to smile, And leer upon him for a while, She 'll after show him, in the... | |
 | Sir Clements Robert Markham - Arctic regions - 1853 - 162 pages
...the skin off the imbiber's lips. How applicable are the lines of Hudibras in these regions ! — "All me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron." Luncheon indeed was but a sorry meal : we merely stopped in the middle of the march for one quarter... | |
 | Daniel Pierce Thompson - Vermont - 1853 - 378 pages
...poor bothered sheriff's non comeatibus in swampo, I guess, would be a fool to it." CHAPTER HI. " Ah, me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron — What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still with afterclaps." SHERWOOD, the person we introduced... | |
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