The British Poets, Volume 1Little, Brown & Company, 1866 |
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... thou foresee how soon the poet's strain Would wake its satire into truth again ; How soon the still - revolving wheel of time Recall the past — each folly , and each crime ; Again the petty tyrant boast his flame , And raise , on ...
... thou foresee how soon the poet's strain Would wake its satire into truth again ; How soon the still - revolving wheel of time Recall the past — each folly , and each crime ; Again the petty tyrant boast his flame , And raise , on ...
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... thou see'st What I have done to soften priest , Yet could not with all I could say Persuade him hang , to get thee pay . Thou swad , quoth he , I plainly see The army wants no food by thee . Fast oft'ner , friend , or if you'll eate ...
... thou see'st What I have done to soften priest , Yet could not with all I could say Persuade him hang , to get thee pay . Thou swad , quoth he , I plainly see The army wants no food by thee . Fast oft'ner , friend , or if you'll eate ...
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... thou with ease can friends expose , For thy behoof , to fortune's blows . Suppose we being found together , Had pass'd for birds of the same feather I had perchance been shrewdly shent , And maul'd too by the Parliament . Have you ...
... thou with ease can friends expose , For thy behoof , to fortune's blows . Suppose we being found together , Had pass'd for birds of the same feather I had perchance been shrewdly shent , And maul'd too by the Parliament . Have you ...
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... thou dost lash me with a story , A long one , too , of Directory ; When thou alone deserves the birch , That brought'st the bondage on the Church . Didst thou not treat for Bristow City And yield it up ? the more's the pity . And saw'st ...
... thou dost lash me with a story , A long one , too , of Directory ; When thou alone deserves the birch , That brought'st the bondage on the Church . Didst thou not treat for Bristow City And yield it up ? the more's the pity . And saw'st ...
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... thou upbraidst and raylst in rime On me , for that , which was thy crime . So froward children in the sun Amid their sports , some shrewd turne done , The faulty youth begins to prate And layes it on his harmlesse mate . Dated From ...
... thou upbraidst and raylst in rime On me , for that , which was thy crime . So froward children in the sun Amid their sports , some shrewd turne done , The faulty youth begins to prate And layes it on his harmlesse mate . Dated From ...
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agen ancient appear arms astrologer b'ing Bear Bear-baiting beard beast beat blood blows break 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 law of arms learned Lord lover Magnano moon ne'er never numbers o'er oaths Orsin Paul Neal poem poets pow'r Presbyterians prov'd prove quarter Quoth Hudibras Quoth Ralpho rage rais'd resolv'd Saints SAMUEL BUTLER self-same serv'd Sidrophel 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 138 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school ; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used ; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Page 25 - Still they are sure to be i' th' right. 'Tis a dark-lanthorn of the spirit, Which none see by but those that bear it ; A light that falls down from on high, For spiritual trades to cozen by ; An ignis fatuus that bewitches And leads men into pools and ditches, To make them dip themselves, and sound For Christendom in dirty pond ; To dive, like wild-fowl, for salvation, And fish to catch regeneration.
Page 5 - And styled of war as well as peace. (So some rats of amphibious nature Are either for the land or water.) But here our authors make a doubt Whether he were more wise or stout.
Page 7 - 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 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 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 17 - So learned Taliacotius', from The brawny part of porter's bum, Cut supplemental noses, which Would last as long as parent breech, But when the date of Nock was out, Off dropt the sympathetic snout.
Page 12 - For his religion it was fit To match his learning and his wit: 'Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant...
Page 3 - When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why? When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears...