 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 394 pages
...most tenderly; Quarrel with minc'd-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge ; Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. * The religion of the Presbyterians of those times contlsted principally in an opposition to the church of... | |
 | John Bell - 1797 - 722 pages
...custard thro' the nose. 139 Th' apostles of this fierce religion, I.ike Mahomet's were ass and widgeon, To whom our Knight, by fast instinct Of wit and temper, was so linkt. y. 213, 214.] They were so remarkably obstinate in this respect, that they kept a fast upon Christmas.... | |
 | 1802 - 570 pages
...Puritans, who M Quarrel with mincc-pyes, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge, Fat Pig, and Goose itself oppose, And blaspheme Custard through the Nose f." We experience many surfeits on thin literary food ; and we imagine that the reader will soon depart... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1805 - 440 pages
...custard thro' the noae. 239 Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like MAROMET'S," were ass and widgton ; To whom our Knight, by fast instinct Of wit and temper was so linkt, As if hypocrisy and nonsense 235 Had got th' advowsun of his conscience. Thus was he gifted and accouter'd ; We mean on th' inside,... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 pages
...and dearest friend, plnm-porridge ; Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme rnstat'd throngh the nose. The' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and wigeon, To whom onr Knight, by fast instinct Of wit and temper, was so linkt, As if hypocrisy and nonsense Had got... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1809 - 448 pages
...apostles n ft his fierce religion, Like Mahontet's,vr were ass and widgeon; To whom onr Knight, by ust instinct Of wit and temper was so linkt, As if hypocrisy and nonsense 235 Had got th' advowson of his conscience. Thas was he gifted and accoater'd; We mean on th' inside,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 pages
...through (he nose. 530 Th* apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon ; To whom our Knight, by fast instinct Of wit and temper, was so linkt, As if hypochrisy and nonsense £35 Had got tli' advowson of his conscience. Thus was he gifted and accouteiM,... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 456 pages
...most tenderly : Quarrel with minc'd-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge, Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard...Knight, by fast instinct Of wit and temper, was so link'd, As if hypocrisy and nonsense Had got the' advowson of his conscience.* Thus was he gifted and... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 pages
...most tenderly : Quarvel with minc'd-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge, Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard...Knight, by fast instinct Of wit and temper, was so link'd, As if hypocrisy and nonsense Had got the' advowson of his conscience.* Thus was he gifted and... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 560 pages
...most tenderly ; Quarrel with minc'd pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plumb-porridge; Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. 230 Th5 apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon ; To whom our Knight,... | |
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Free-will they one way disavow, Another, nothing else allow : All piety consists therein In them, in other men all sin : Rather than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly ; Quarrel with mine' d pies and disparage Their best and dearest... 
