Hudibras, Volume 1Charles & Henry Baldwyn, 1819 |
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2d edit Æneid Alluding arms Author b'ing bantered Bartholomew Fair bear bear-baiting beard beast Bishop blows Butler Cæsar called canto Cerdon chap chimæra church cou'd Covenant Crowdero devil Divines dogs Don Quixote Echard's editions of 1663 enemy English ev'ry Fable Faerie Queene fight following lines give Gondibert hast head hero Hist History honour horse Hudibras Iliad intitled John Birkenhead Julius Cæsar justice King King of Sweden Knight L'Estrange's learned Lord Lord Clarendon's Loyal Songs Magnano Mercurius Rusticus Minister never nose o'er observes Ordinance Orsin Ovid Parliament persons Poem Poet Pope prayers preacher Presbyterians Prince Queen quoth Ralpho reformation religion saints says sermons Shakespear's shew Siculi Sir Roger L'Estrange Spectator Spenser's Squire stout sword Talgol Tatler thee thing thou tract translated Trulla Twas verse Virgil William words wou'd wound
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Page 19 - In Mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe. or Erra Pater: For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale; Resolve, by sines and tangents straight, If bread or butter wanted weight; And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by Algebra.
Page 15 - H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.
Page 14 - 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 28 - For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit : 'Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant...
Page 29 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Page 31 - 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 inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to : Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipped God for spite.
Page 35 - This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of sceptres and of crowns ; With grisly type did represent Declining age of government ; And tell, with hieroglyphic spade, Its own grave and the state's were made...
Page xxxvi - If Hudibras had been set out with as much wit and humour in heroic verse as he is in doggerel, he would have made a much more agreeable figure than he does; though the generality of his readers are so wonderfully pleased with the double rhymes, that I do not expect many will be of my opinion in this particular.
Page 53 - At his left hand, beneath the altar, Hell seemed to open, and catch at the animals the idol was creating; to prevent which, certain of his priests hourly flung in pieces of the uninformed mass, or substance, and sometimes whole limbs already enlivened, which that horrid gulf insatiably swallowed, terrible to behold.
Page 56 - Still they are sure to be i' th' right. 'Tis a dark lantern of the Spirit, Which none see by but those that bear it ; A light that falls down from on high, For spiritual trades to cozen by ; An...