| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 430 pages
...drum in this diflich, " When pulpit, drum ecclefiaftie, " Was beat with fift inftead of a flick ;" and and that the wonderful lines upon honour and a bubble have hitherto pa^Ted without notice. " Honour is like the glafly bubble, " Which cofls philofophers fuch trouble... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 442 pages
...a drum in this diftich, " When pulpit, drum ecdefiaftie, " Was beat with fift inftwd of a ftici ," and that the wonderful lines upon honour and a bubble have hitherto pafled without notice. " Honour is like the glafly bubble, " Which cofts philofophers fuch trouble... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 432 pages
...drum in this diftich, " When pulpit, drum ecclefiaftic, " Was beat with fift inftead of a flick j" and and that the wonderful lines upon honour and a bubble have hitherto pafled without notice. " Honour is like the glafly bubble, " Which cofts philofophers fuch trouble... | |
| 1787 - 528 pages
...this 'lit'tich— 1 When pulpit, drum rcclcfiaflic, « W .is beat vvith fill ¡nftejd of a ftickj* and that the wonderful lines upon Honour and a Bubble have hitherto paiïcd without notice. ' Honour h like the gUÍTy bubble, 1 Which coils philofophers fuch troublej... | |
| English essays - 1803 - 222 pages
...our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their- works have been hitherto perused,...stick ; and that the wonderful lines upon honour and a bul> ble have hitherto passed without notice. " Honour is like the glassy bubble, " Which costs philosophers... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...these doggerel rhymes than of the parts that really deserve admiration. I am sure I have heard the Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick and There was an ancient sage philosopher Who had read Alexander Ross over more frequently quoted than... | |
| 1804 - 676 pages
...these doggerel rhymes than of the parts that really deserve admiration. I am sure I have heard the Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick ; and There was an antient fage philosopher Who had read Alexander Ross over, more frequently quoted than... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 416 pages
...these doggerel rhymes than of the parts that really deserve admiration. I am sure I have heard the ' Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, was beat with fist, instead of a stick;' and ' There was an ancient sage philosopher Who had read Alexander Ross over,' more frequently quoted,... | |
| George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...master in wit and humour, the point and ridicule of which is wholly independent of the double rhyme. " When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, " Was beat with fist, instead of a stick." And again We grant, altho' he had much wit, He was very shy of using it [ f As being loth to wear it out.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supinehess with which their works have been hitherto perused, so that no man has found the sound of a drum hi this distich : " When pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, « Was beat with fist instead of a stick j" and... | |
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