 | Samuel Butler - 1846 - 324 pages
...He could unriddle in a moment, In proper terms, such as men smatter, When they Ihrow oul, and miss the matter. For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit : I90 'Twas Presbyterian true blue ; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints whom all men... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 pages
...butter wanted weight : And wisely tell, what hour o' th' day The clock does strike, by algebra. * * * * 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... | |
 | 1849 - 516 pages
...term is supposed to refer to the austerity of a particular sect — as in Butler's description — " For his religion, it was fit " To match his learning and his wit ; " 'Twas Presbyterian true blue." wherenf the name of Mr. Cotton is, by mistake, put for tliat of... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...nice, And after solve 'em in a trice : As if divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be scratc'd ; 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... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1848 - 456 pages
...term ; their religion and their morality being marked by it as mean and contemptible. Thus Butler : For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit ; 'Twas Presbyterian true blue. — Hudib. Canto I. " That this epithet of derision should find its... | |
 | John England - 1849 - 508 pages
...term ; their religion and their morality being marked _by it as mean and contemptible. Thus Butler, " For his religion it was fit To match his learning and his wit ; 'Twas Presbyterian true blue." Hudih., Cant. I. That this epithet of derision should find its way... | |
 | 1849 - 624 pages
...term is supposed to refer to the austerity of a particular sect — as in Butler's description — " For his religion, it was fit " To match his learning and his wit ; " 'Twas Presbyterian true blue." whereof the name of Mr. Cotton is, by mistake, put for tliat of... | |
 | 1883 - 676 pages
...embroider'd in each part." And Butler, in describing his hero in 1662, says (canto i. 1. 173):— " For his Religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit, T'was Presbyterian true blew, For he was of that Stubborn crew Of errant sainte whom all men grant... | |
 | 1866 - 644 pages
...person of Hudibras, his dress, his parts, and his religion, speaking of the latter, he says : — " 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 arrant saints," &c. ; and the note... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...When he harangu'd, but known his phrase, He would have us'd no other ways. [Religion of Hudibrat.] 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... 
