 | Samuel Butler, Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1893 - 396 pages
...honour's very squeamish That takes a basting for a blemish; For what's more hon'rable than seal's, Or skin to tatters rent in wars? 520 Some have been beaten...neat's leather; And yet have met, after long running. 225 With some whom they have taught that running. The furthest way about t' o'ereome In th' end does... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1893 - 408 pages
...scars, Or skin to tatters rent in wars ? s2o Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel 's of by th' blow ; Some kick'd until they can feel whether...neat's leather ; And yet have met, after long running. 22.5 With some whom they have taught that cunning. The furthest way about t' o'ercome In th' end does... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - 1893 - 404 pages
...that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair, And dwell, a weeping hermit there. Collins. Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow^ Some kicked until they can feel wheth | er A shoe be Spanish or neat's leath | er. Butler. So find I every... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...are men, Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous. a. ADDISON — Colo. Act III. 8c. 5. Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's...feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather. b. BUTLEB— Hudibras. Ft. II. Canto I. L. 221. The twig is so easily bended, I have banished the rule... | |
 | 1896 - 1162 pages
...the skins of upwards of 100.000 animals are used to cover Oxford Bibles alone. Butler wrote : — ' Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's...feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.' Only long experience enables one to differentiate between the different kinds of leather, which, by-the-by,... | |
 | 1856 - 604 pages
...slain Be in the bed of honor lain, He that is beaten may be said To lie in honor's truckle-bed." " Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by the blow." " For what is worth in anything But so much money as 'twill bring ?" " The sun had long... | |
 | 1906 - 810 pages
...working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die, TENNYSON, In Memoriam, cxviii, M, 7 Beaten, — Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow; Some kicked, until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather, BUTLER, Hudibras, II, i, lines... | |
 | 1919 - 376 pages
...who opposed the movement knew and recognized that he was the master mind that directed it all. For "Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th" blow; Some kicked until they can tell whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.'1 And well they knew the feel... | |
 | 1919 - 378 pages
...who opposed the movement knew and recognized that he was the master mind that directed it all. For "Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow; Some kicked until they can tell whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather." And well they knew the feel... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1925 - 344 pages
...merely as 'tis understood." Neither is such a beating derogatory to the honour of a soldier; for " Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by the blow: Some kicked, until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather " ; and yet... | |
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Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of, by th' blow ; Some kick'd, until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather ; And yet have met, after long running, With some whom they have taught that cunning'. 
