The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler: With a Life of the AuthorMitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 - 390 pages |
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... worse ; free Liberty being a most beautiful and satirical peri- phrasis for licentiousness , which is the idea the author here intended to give us . The King being driven from the Parliament , no legal acts of Parliament could be made ...
... worse ; free Liberty being a most beautiful and satirical peri- phrasis for licentiousness , which is the idea the author here intended to give us . The King being driven from the Parliament , no legal acts of Parliament could be made ...
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... worse . His death - charg'd pistols he did fit well , Drawn out from life - preserving victual . These being prim'd , with force he labour'd To free's sword from retentive scabbard ; And after many a painful pluck , From rusty durance ...
... worse . His death - charg'd pistols he did fit well , Drawn out from life - preserving victual . These being prim'd , with force he labour'd To free's sword from retentive scabbard ; And after many a painful pluck , From rusty durance ...
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... Worse than a mule that flings and kicks ; ' Mong which one cross - grain'd freak she had , As insolent as strange , and mad ; She could love none but only such As scorn'd and hated her as much . ' Twas a strange riddle of a lady ; Not ...
... Worse than a mule that flings and kicks ; ' Mong which one cross - grain'd freak she had , As insolent as strange , and mad ; She could love none but only such As scorn'd and hated her as much . ' Twas a strange riddle of a lady ; Not ...
Page 124
... worse ; for if they're idem , Why then tantundem dat tantidem . For if they are the same , by course Neither is better , neither worse . But I deny they are the same , More than a maggot and I am . That both are animalia I grant , but ...
... worse ; for if they're idem , Why then tantundem dat tantidem . For if they are the same , by course Neither is better , neither worse . But I deny they are the same , More than a maggot and I am . That both are animalia I grant , but ...
Page 133
... worse handled , Although i ' th ' rear , your beard the van led ; * Giles Fletcher , in his account of Russia , says that the Russian nobility nourish and spread their beards , to have them long and broad . VOL . IX . M And those uneasy ...
... worse handled , Although i ' th ' rear , your beard the van led ; * Giles Fletcher , in his account of Russia , says that the Russian nobility nourish and spread their beards , to have them long and broad . VOL . IX . M And those uneasy ...
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Page 12 - 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.
Page 16 - Or Cerberus himself pronounce A leash of languages at once. This he as volubly would vent As if his stock would ne'er be spent ; And truly to support that charge, He had supplies as vast and large. For he could coin or counterfeit New words, with little or no wit ; Words so debas'd and hard, no stone Was hard enough to touch them on ; And, when with hasty noise he spoke 'em, The ignorant for current took 'em...
Page 15 - For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope; And when he happened to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H...
Page 18 - 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; That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than others the right way, Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to...
Page 19 - Freewill they one way disavow, Another, nothing else allow ; All piety consists therein In them, in other men all sin ; Rather than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly : Quarrel with minced pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge ; Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon.
Page 10 - When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion as for punk, Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore: When gospel-trumpeter surrounded, With long-eared rout to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic. Was beat with fist, instead of a stick; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling.
Page 352 - He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still ; Which he may adhere to, yet disown, For reasons to himself best known...
Page 186 - Not far from hence doth dwell A cunning man, hight Sidrophel, That deals in destiny's dark counsels, And sage opinions of the moon sells ; To whom all people, far and near, On deep importances repair ; When brass and pewter hap to stray, And linen slinks out of the way ; When geese and pullen are...
Page 16 - Altho' by woful proof we find They always leave a scar behind. He knew the seat of paradise, Could tell in what degree it lies ; And, as he was dispos'd, could prove it Below the moon, or else above it.
Page 113 - Not to be forfeited in battle. If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain, He that is beaten may be said To lie in honour's truckle-bed. For as we see th...