The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler, Volumes 1-2James Nichol, 1854 |
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Page vi
... nature in many of its most singular and raciest attitudes . Fielding , too , was a justice of peace , and this , doubtless , con- tributed to make him , as Byron calls him , " the prose Homer of human nature . " There can be little ...
... nature in many of its most singular and raciest attitudes . Fielding , too , was a justice of peace , and this , doubtless , con- tributed to make him , as Byron calls him , " the prose Homer of human nature . " There can be little ...
Page vii
... natural game , and resembled a painter detained among the banditti of the Apennines , who makes the best of his detention in sketching the strange figures and savage scenery around him . That Butler hated the Puritans as a party is ...
... natural game , and resembled a painter detained among the banditti of the Apennines , who makes the best of his detention in sketching the strange figures and savage scenery around him . That Butler hated the Puritans as a party is ...
Page xiv
... Nature her charter shall renew , And take all lives of things from you . ” Why , this might have come from the fair Rosalind , in the Forest of Arden , and sounds softly as an enamoured wave breaking in whispers upon a shore of silver ...
... Nature her charter shall renew , And take all lives of things from you . ” Why , this might have come from the fair Rosalind , in the Forest of Arden , and sounds softly as an enamoured wave breaking in whispers upon a shore of silver ...
Page xv
... natures to outlive ; And , like to herald's moons , remain All crescents , without change or wane . ' One main feature , we repeat , of burlesque poetry , un- doubtedly lies in this merciless mangling of its own beautiful creations ...
... natures to outlive ; And , like to herald's moons , remain All crescents , without change or wane . ' One main feature , we repeat , of burlesque poetry , un- doubtedly lies in this merciless mangling of its own beautiful creations ...
Page xx
... nature or wilfully , to the grandeur of the genius , to the enthusiasm , the resolution , the great social and religious ideas , and the terrible virtues , which were found below and within these mean and ludicrous insig- nia of manner ...
... nature or wilfully , to the grandeur of the genius , to the enthusiasm , the resolution , the great social and religious ideas , and the terrible virtues , which were found below and within these mean and ludicrous insig- nia of manner ...
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