The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler, Volume 1Little, Brown, and Company, 1857 |
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... dame Was hight Sir Hudibras , an hardy man . It is supposed that Lilly the astrologer was represented under the person of Sidrophel ; though Sir Paul Neal , who denied Butler to be the author of Hudibras , has been men- tioned as the ...
... dame Was hight Sir Hudibras , an hardy man . It is supposed that Lilly the astrologer was represented under the person of Sidrophel ; though Sir Paul Neal , who denied Butler to be the author of Hudibras , has been men- tioned as the ...
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... , Gospel - preaching , Soul - saving , Elect , Saints , the Godly , the Predestinate , and the like ; which they applied to their own preachers and themselves . For Dame Religion as for punk ; Whose honesty they Canto I.
... , Gospel - preaching , Soul - saving , Elect , Saints , the Godly , the Predestinate , and the like ; which they applied to their own preachers and themselves . For Dame Religion as for punk ; Whose honesty they Canto I.
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Samuel Butler. 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 - ear'd rout , to battle sounded ; And pulpit , drum ...
Samuel Butler. 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 - ear'd rout , to battle sounded ; And pulpit , drum ...
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... Dame Penthesile . And though some critics here cry shame , And say our authors are to blame , 3.0 375 330 That ( spite of all philosophers , Who hold no females stout but bears , And heretofore did so abhor That women should pretend to ...
... Dame Penthesile . And though some critics here cry shame , And say our authors are to blame , 3.0 375 330 That ( spite of all philosophers , Who hold no females stout but bears , And heretofore did so abhor That women should pretend to ...
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... Dame Tellus , ' cause she wanted fother And provender , wherewith to feed Himself and his less cruel steed . It was a question whether he 465 Or ' s horse were of a family More worshipful ; till antiquaries ( After they'd almost por'd ...
... Dame Tellus , ' cause she wanted fother And provender , wherewith to feed Himself and his less cruel steed . It was a question whether he 465 Or ' s horse were of a family More worshipful ; till antiquaries ( After they'd almost por'd ...
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agen ancient appear arms astrologer b'ing Bear Bear-baiting beard beast beat believ'd blood blows breech broke bus'ness Butler CANTO Carisbrook Castle cause Cerdon cheat Church conscience Countess of Kent Crowdero Dame devil dogs e'er ears enemy ev'ry eyes false fell Fiddle fight fortune give grace hand head heart honour horse Hudibrastic King knew Knight ladies laid learned Lord lover Magnano moon ne'er never numbers o'er oaths Orsin Paul Neal poem poets pow'r Presbyterians prov'd prove Quoth Hudibras Quoth Ralpho rage rais'd resolv'd Saints SAMUEL BUTLER self-same Sidrophel Sir Roger L'Estrange Sir Samuel Luke Skimmington soul specieses Squire stars steed stout swear sword swore tail Talgol tell thee things thou hast thought tricks true Trulla turn turn'd twas us'd vow'd Whachum William Lilly witches words worse wound
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Page 14 - 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...
Page 13 - 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 113 - To let them see I am no starter. In all the trade of war no feat Is nobler than a brave retreat : For those that run away, and fly, Take place at least o' the
Page 14 - Free-will they one way disavow, Another, nothing else allow. All piety consists therein In them, in other men all sin.
Page xvi - While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give ; See him, when starved to death and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone.
Page 10 - But oftentimes mistook the one For th' other, as great clerks have done. He could reduce all things to acts, And knew their natures by abstracts ; Where Entity and Quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly ; Where truth in person does appear, Like words congeal'd in northern air. He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly...
Page 7 - 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 15 - His tawny beard was th' equal grace Both of his wisdom and his face; In cut and dye so like a tile, A sudden view it would beguile ; The upper part whereof was whey, The nether orange, mix'd with grey.
Page 4 - 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 xx - In this mist of obscurity passed the life of Butler, a man whose name can only perish with his language. The mode and place of his education are unknown; the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor.