 | John Trainer - 1895 - 356 pages
...all dissenters were often included, were more particularly designated by this term. Thus, Butler: " For his religion it was fit To match his learning and his wit — 'Twas Presbyterian true Hue. — HUDIBRAS. Puritans, by those who wished to render the prevailing... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1895 - 944 pages
...luncheon, as "bever" was a cold collation between dinner and supper. Further, as to our Knight : " 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... | |
 | 1916 - 1108 pages
...statements like it, a flection on one of the most useful our religious denominations. We quote^ it: 2» "For his religion, it was fit, To match his learning and his wit. 'Twas Presbyterian Blue." We hope that the time will soon come when careless and unfair methods of... | |
 | 1918 - 822 pages
...Restoration of the Stuarts looked with disapprobation on the licentiousness of the times. Thus, in Hudibras, For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit; 'Twas Presbyterian tiue Wu*. That this epithet should find its way to the colonies was a matter of... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 pages
...disputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure he would do. ena. I will be Paris, and for love of thee, Instead of Troy, s : 'Twas Presbyterian true blue ; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant... | |
 | 1920 - 1016 pages
...returns we may easily die, Till then let us sorrow in company." Reginald Heber. THE RELIGION OF HUDIBRAS 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... | |
 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1921 - 316 pages
...The description of Hudibras in Canto I, ie on his intellectual side. That of his religion follows : For his Religion it was fit To match his Learning and his Wit : 'Twas Presbyterian true blew, &c. 1. 12. 'Committee-men'. Committees set up in various counties to... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...April day, And woman's plighted faith. SOUTHEY— Madoc in Azthan. Pt. ХХШ. L. , 51. 22 DOCTRINE 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... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - 1923 - 804 pages
...but some passages are given, as well as some of Butler's clever epigrams. THE RELIGION OF HUDIBRAS 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... | |
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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... 
