Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late WarsAndrus, 1853 - 335 pages |
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... thought poets , have only ren- dered themselves obnoxious to that satirical in- spiration our author wittily invokes : Which made them , though it were in spite Of nature and their stars , to write . 6 On the one side , some who have ...
... thought poets , have only ren- dered themselves obnoxious to that satirical in- spiration our author wittily invokes : Which made them , though it were in spite Of nature and their stars , to write . 6 On the one side , some who have ...
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... thought him but an ass , Much more she would Sir Hudibras ( For that's the naine our valiant Knight To all his challenges did write . ) But they're mistaken very much ; " Tis plain enough he was no such . We grant , altho ' he had much ...
... thought him but an ass , Much more she would Sir Hudibras ( For that's the naine our valiant Knight To all his challenges did write . ) But they're mistaken very much ; " Tis plain enough he was no such . We grant , altho ' he had much ...
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... thought to extract notions out of natural things , as chymists do spirits and essences ; and , when they had refined them into the nicest subtilties , gave them as insignificant names as those operators do their ex- tractions : But ...
... thought to extract notions out of natural things , as chymists do spirits and essences ; and , when they had refined them into the nicest subtilties , gave them as insignificant names as those operators do their ex- tractions : But ...
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... thought to whisper and inspire him . His ass was so intimate with him , that the Mahometans believed it carried him to heaven , and stays there with him to bring him back again . His tawny beard was th ' equal grace Both of PART 1 ...
... thought to whisper and inspire him . His ass was so intimate with him , that the Mahometans believed it carried him to heaven , and stays there with him to bring him back again . His tawny beard was th ' equal grace Both of PART 1 ...
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... thought good , To save th ' expense of Christian blood , And try if we by mediation Of treaty and accommodation , 730 Can end the quarrel , and compose The bloody duel without blows . Are not our liberties , our lives , The laws ...
... thought good , To save th ' expense of Christian blood , And try if we by mediation Of treaty and accommodation , 730 Can end the quarrel , and compose The bloody duel without blows . Are not our liberties , our lives , The laws ...
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