Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill ...J. Bell, 1797 |
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... and in quarrelling with the most innocent customs then in use , as the eating Christmas - pies and plum - porridge at Christmas , which they reputed sinful . That with more care keep holy day The wrong , 32 Part I. HUDIBRAS .
... and in quarrelling with the most innocent customs then in use , as the eating Christmas - pies and plum - porridge at Christmas , which they reputed sinful . That with more care keep holy day The wrong , 32 Part I. HUDIBRAS .
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... 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 : Still so perverse and opposite , As if they worshipp'd God for spite : The self - same thing they ...
... 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 : Still so perverse and opposite , As if they worshipp'd God for spite : The self - same thing they ...
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... keep well - cramm'd with thrifty fare ; As white - pot , butter - milk , and curds , Such as a country - house affords ; 300 With other victual , which anon We farther shall dilate upon , When of his hose we come to treat , The cupboard ...
... keep well - cramm'd with thrifty fare ; As white - pot , butter - milk , and curds , Such as a country - house affords ; 300 With other victual , which anon We farther shall dilate upon , When of his hose we come to treat , The cupboard ...
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... keep them in a glass , like water , Of sov'reign pow'r to make men wise ; 555 For , dropt in blear thick - sighted eyes , They'd make them see in darkest night , Like owls , tho ' purblind in the light . By help of these ( as he profest ) ...
... keep them in a glass , like water , Of sov'reign pow'r to make men wise ; 555 For , dropt in blear thick - sighted eyes , They'd make them see in darkest night , Like owls , tho ' purblind in the light . By help of these ( as he profest ) ...
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... keep men from inglorious harms ) That none presume to come so near As forty foot of stake of bear , If any yet be so fool - hardy , T'expose themselves to vain jeopardy , If they come wounded off , and lame , No honour's got by such a ...
... keep men from inglorious harms ) That none presume to come so near As forty foot of stake of bear , If any yet be so fool - hardy , T'expose themselves to vain jeopardy , If they come wounded off , and lame , No honour's got by such a ...
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Page 16 - He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by syllogism true, In mood and figure he would do. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope : And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H...
Page 210 - Tis the temptation of the devil That makes all human actions evil : For Saints may do the same things by The Spirit, in sincerity, Which other men are tempted to, And at the devil's instance do ; And yet the actions be contrary, Just as the Saints and Wicked vary.
Page 14 - Th' adventure of the bear and fiddle Is sung, but breaks off in the middle. When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears...
Page 14 - Though not a man of them knew wherefore ; When Gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd 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 30 - Unless they graz'd there's not one word Of their provision on record ; Which made some confidently write, They had no stomachs but to fight.
Page 39 - He understood the speech of birds As well as they themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; 550 What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry ' Rope,' and
Page 24 - 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...
Page 22 - Or, like a mountebank, did wound And stab herself with doubts profound, Only to show with how small pain The sores of Faith are cured again ; Although by woful proof we find They always leave a scar behind.
Page 78 - And what would serve, if those were gone, To make it orthodox ?" — " Our own." " What makes morality a crime, The most notorious of the time ; Morality, which both the saints And wicked too cry out against ?" — " 'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin ; And therefore no true saint allows They shall be...
Page 107 - Is marry'd only to a thumb (As wise as ringing of a pig, That us'd to break up ground and dig), The bride to nothing but her will, That nulls the after-marriage still : Some were for th...