 | Daniel Pierce Thompson - 1853 - 378 pages
...poor bothered sheriff's non comeatibus in swampo, I guess, would be a fool to it." CHAPTER HI. " Ah, me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron — What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still with afterclaps." SHERWOOD, the person we introduced in the... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...soul deliver? On the pages of existence, see! the writing changes ever. Hafiz, from the Persian. Ah me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron! For tho' Dame Fortune seem to smile, And leer npon him for a while, She'll after show him, in the nick... | |
 | Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1853 - 162 pages
...the skin off the imbiber's lips. How applicable are the lines of Hudibras in these regions ! — "All me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron." Luncheon indeed was but a sorry meal : we merely stopped in the middle of the march for one quarter... | |
 | Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 296 pages
...enchanted fort by storm, release Crowdero, and put the Squire in 's place ; 1 should have first said HUDIBRAS. AY me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron 1 What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still with after-claps ! For though Dame Fortune seem... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1854 - 386 pages
...his party also, into the hands of Lord De la Zouch ? Saith the immortal author of ffudibras — "Ah me, what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron : " But Gammon was disposed to make an exclamation in a similar tone, though of a different sort —... | |
 | Michael Rafter - 1855 - 362 pages
...began to find I was not exempt from these; for as my old favourite Hudibras so pathetically sings : . " 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 !" In the first place, I was handed over to... | |
 | Samuel Simon Schmucker, S. S. (Samuel Simon) Schmucker - 1855 - 332 pages
...things really mean and contemptible. Thus, Hudibras burlesques the adventures of his reputed hero : " Ah 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, Hard crab-tree and old iron rang. Part i. Canto iii. Line 1. Ay me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron. Part i. Canto iii. Line 263. Nor do I know what is become Of him, more than the Pope of Bome. Part... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1856 - 800 pages
...every text and gloss over. The oyster-women locked their fish up. And trudged away to cry ' No Bishop!' Ay me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron. Such church must surely lie a monster With many heads ; for if we constcr What in th'Apocalypsc, &c.... | |
 | Abram Stevens Hewitt - 1856 - 54 pages
...propose to engage in the business the couplet from Hudibras, as conveying a wholesome warning : — " Ah, me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron '." To those who have essayed these perils, and succumbed to them, I can only offer the barren consolation... | |
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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... 
