Hudibras: In Three Parts : Written in the Time of the Late WarsVernor and Hood, 1805 - 384 pages |
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... lives , The laws , religion , and our wives , Enough at once to lie at stake For Cov'nant and the Cause's sake ? But in that quarrel dogs and bears , As well as we must venture theirs ? This feud , by Jesuits invented , By evil counsel ...
... lives , The laws , religion , and our wives , Enough at once to lie at stake For Cov'nant and the Cause's sake ? But in that quarrel dogs and bears , As well as we must venture theirs ? This feud , by Jesuits invented , By evil counsel ...
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... live engines ply'd , not staying Until they reach'd the fatal champain , 60 Which th ' enemy did then encamp on ; The z dire Pharsalian plain , where battle 65 Was to be wag'd ' twixt puissant cattle And fierce auxiliary men , That came ...
... live engines ply'd , not staying Until they reach'd the fatal champain , 60 Which th ' enemy did then encamp on ; The z dire Pharsalian plain , where battle 65 Was to be wag'd ' twixt puissant cattle And fierce auxiliary men , That came ...
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... lives , Shall save or help thee to evade The hand of Justice , or this blade , Which I , her sword - bearer , do carry , 760 For civil deed and military . Nor shall those words of venom base , Which thou hast from their native place ...
... lives , Shall save or help thee to evade The hand of Justice , or this blade , Which I , her sword - bearer , do carry , 760 For civil deed and military . Nor shall those words of venom base , Which thou hast from their native place ...
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... live or die . His fiddle is your proper purchase , Won in the service of the Churches ; And by your doom must be allow'd To be , or be no more , a crowd . For though success did not confer Just title on the conqueror ; Though ...
... live or die . His fiddle is your proper purchase , Won in the service of the Churches ; And by your doom must be allow'd To be , or be no more , a crowd . For though success did not confer Just title on the conqueror ; Though ...
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... we with blacks and blues are suggill'd , Or , as the vulgar say , are cudgell'd ; 1040 He that is valiant , and dares fight , Though drubb'd , can lose no honour by't . Honour's a lease for lives to come , And cannot 94 HUDIBRAS .
... we with blacks and blues are suggill'd , Or , as the vulgar say , are cudgell'd ; 1040 He that is valiant , and dares fight , Though drubb'd , can lose no honour by't . Honour's a lease for lives to come , And cannot 94 HUDIBRAS .
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Page 7 - 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 278 - For loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.
Page 7 - 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 3 - 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 153 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Page 141 - Quoth he, My faith, as adamantine, As chains of destiny, I'll maintain ; True as Apollo ever spoke, Or oracle from heart of oak ; And if you'll give my flame but vent, Now in close hugger-mugger pent, And shine upon me but benignly, With that one, and that other pigsney...
Page 165 - Have a care o' th' main chance, And Look before you ere you leap ; For As you sow, y...
Page 361 - Though women first were made for men, Yet men were made for them again : For when (out-witted by his wife) Man first turn'd tenant but for life, if women had not interven'd, How soon had mankind had an end ! And that it is in being yet, To us alone you are in debt.
Page 27 - Success, the Mark no Mortal Wit, Or surest Hand, can always hit: 880 For whatsoe'er we perpetrate, We do but row, we're steer'd by Fate, Which in Success oft disinherits, For spurious Causes, noblest Merits.
Page 63 - AY me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron ! What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still with after-claps ! For though Dame Fortune seem to smile, And leer upon him for a while, She'll after show him, in the nick Of all his glories, a dog-trick. This any man may sing or say, I' th