Hudibras ...: Written in the Time of the Late WarsE.P., 1704 - 587 pages |
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... fall short of that Spi- rit of the English Wit , I leave the meanest Capacity that understands them to Judge . The following Simile's I have heard were done by the Learned Dr. Harmar , once Greek Profeffor at Oxon . So Learned ...
... fall short of that Spi- rit of the English Wit , I leave the meanest Capacity that understands them to Judge . The following Simile's I have heard were done by the Learned Dr. Harmar , once Greek Profeffor at Oxon . So Learned ...
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... Came from her Clofet in his fide : Whether the Devil tempted her By a High Dutch Interpreter : If either of them had a Navel Who first made Mufick malleable : ; Whe Whether the Serpent at the Fall Had Cloven Feet , CANTO I. 9.
... Came from her Clofet in his fide : Whether the Devil tempted her By a High Dutch Interpreter : If either of them had a Navel Who first made Mufick malleable : ; Whe Whether the Serpent at the Fall Had Cloven Feet , CANTO I. 9.
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... Fall Had Cloven Feet , or none at all . All this without a Glofs , or Comment , He would unriddle in a moment In proper terms , fuch as Men smatter When they throw out and mifs the Matter . For his Religion it was fit To match his ...
... Fall Had Cloven Feet , or none at all . All this without a Glofs , or Comment , He would unriddle in a moment In proper terms , fuch as Men smatter When they throw out and mifs the Matter . For his Religion it was fit To match his ...
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... falling out with that or this , And finding fomewhat ftill amifs : More peevish , cross , and fpleenetick , Than Dog distract , or Monky fick . That with more care keep Holy - day The wrong , than others the right way : Compound for ...
... falling out with that or this , And finding fomewhat ftill amifs : More peevish , cross , and fpleenetick , Than Dog distract , or Monky fick . That with more care keep Holy - day The wrong , than others the right way : Compound for ...
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... VVhey , The nether Orange mixt with Grey . This hairy Meteor did denounce The Fall of Scepters and of Crowns ; With grizly Type did reprefent Declining Age of Government ; VVith 12 CANTO I. Quarrel with Minc'd Pies, and difparage ...
... VVhey , The nether Orange mixt with Grey . This hairy Meteor did denounce The Fall of Scepters and of Crowns ; With grizly Type did reprefent Declining Age of Government ; VVith 12 CANTO I. Quarrel with Minc'd Pies, and difparage ...
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againſt agen b'ing bafely bafting Battel Beaft Bear Bear-Baiting Beard Beaſt Becauſe Befide beft believ'd beſt Bloud Blows Cafe caft CANTO Caufe Cauſe Cerdon Church cloſe Confcience Courſe Crowdero Defign Devil Difpute Dogs e'er Ears elfe elſe ev'ry fafe faid falfe fame Feats felf felves ferve fhall fhew fide fight fince firft firſt flain fome foon ftill ftout ftrange fuch fwear himſelf Honour Horfe Horſe Houſe Idem juſt Knight Ladies laft Learned leaſt lefs Love Lover Magnano moft moſt muſt ne'er o'er Oaths paſs Perfon Philofophers pleaſe Pow'r Priſoners prov'd Publick Quoth fhe Quoth Hudibras Rabble raiſe Ralpho Reaſon refolv'd Saints ſelf Semiramis of Babylon ſhall ſhe ſhould Sidrophel Squire ſtand ſtill Sword thee Thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou Tricks true turn'd twas underſtand Unleſs us'd uſe whofe Whoſe Wife Words Worfe worſe
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Page 97 - But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again: And still he's in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was...
Page 18 - This sword a dagger had, his page, That was but little for his age, And therefore waited on him so As dwarfs upon knights-errant do : It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging : When it had stabb'd, or broke a head, It would scrape trenchers, or chip bread ; Toast cheese or bacon ; though it were To bait a mouse-trap, 'twould not care...
Page 11 - 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 holyday The wrong, than others the right way; Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Page 89 - 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...
Page 107 - He rag'd, and kept as heavy a coil as Stout Hercules for loss of Hylas, Forcing the vallies to repeat The accents of his sad regret. He beat his breast, and tore his hair For loss of his dear crony Bear: That Echo, from the hollow ground, His doleful wailings did resound, More wistfully, by many times, Than in small poets...
Page 8 - And, as occasion served, would quote : No matter whether right or wrong, They might be either said or sung. His notions fitted things so well, That which was which he could not tell, But oftentimes mistook the one For th' other, as great clerks have done.
Page 59 - What makes all doctrines plain and clear?" — " About two hundred pounds a- year." " And that which was prov'd true before, Prove false again?" —
Page 12 - 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 thereof was whey, The nether orange mixt with grey.
Page 9 - Although by woful proof we find They always leave a scar behind. He knew the seat of paradise, Could tell in what degree it lies: And, as he was disposed, could prove it, Below the moon, or else above it. What Adam dreamt of when his bride Came from her closet in his side: Whether the Devil tempted her By a High Dutch interpreter...
Page 11 - The self-same thing they will abhor One way and long another for ; Freewill they one way disavow, Another, nothing else allow ; All piety consists therein In them, in other men all sin. Rather...