Hudibras: A Poem, Volume 2Akerman, 1822 - 494 pages |
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... lines huge gaps , Wide as meridians in maps ; To squander paper and spare ink , Or cheat men of their words , some think . 330 From this , by merited degrees , He'd to more high advancement rise , To be an under - conjurer , Or ...
... lines huge gaps , Wide as meridians in maps ; To squander paper and spare ink , Or cheat men of their words , some think . 330 From this , by merited degrees , He'd to more high advancement rise , To be an under - conjurer , Or ...
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... line , says , " had the Precisians of those times known that the church of Rome had taken the almanack into the number of her saints , they would never have suffered Booker to have been a licenser of almanacks , or Lilly their famed ...
... line , says , " had the Precisians of those times known that the church of Rome had taken the almanack into the number of her saints , they would never have suffered Booker to have been a licenser of almanacks , or Lilly their famed ...
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... lines on the same subject : " The way to make a Welchman thirst for bliss , And say his prayers daily on his knees , Is to persuade him that most certain ' tis The moon is made of nothing but green cheese . And he'll desire of God no ...
... lines on the same subject : " The way to make a Welchman thirst for bliss , And say his prayers daily on his knees , Is to persuade him that most certain ' tis The moon is made of nothing but green cheese . And he'll desire of God no ...
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... " That distem- pers , particularly the epilepsy , might be removed by rhymes . " Taylor , the water - poet , banters such pretenders in the following lines : " He can release or else increase all harms , CANTO III . 79 NOTES .
... " That distem- pers , particularly the epilepsy , might be removed by rhymes . " Taylor , the water - poet , banters such pretenders in the following lines : " He can release or else increase all harms , CANTO III . 79 NOTES .
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... lines : " Others aver that mites in cheese Live in a monarchy like bees : Have civil laws and magistrates , Their rise , their periods , and fates , Like other powers and states . And , by a strange peculiar art , Can hear them sneeze ...
... lines : " Others aver that mites in cheese Live in a monarchy like bees : Have civil laws and magistrates , Their rise , their periods , and fates , Like other powers and states . And , by a strange peculiar art , Can hear them sneeze ...
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Page 115 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 455 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; It becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Page 115 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.
Page 454 - Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their closets at a certain hour of the day, and to converse with one another by means of this their invention. Accordingly, when they were some hundred miles asunder, each of them shut himself up in his closet at the time appointed, and immediately cast his eye upon his dial-plate.
Page 170 - A mode that is held honourable, As well as French and fashionable: For when it falls out for the best, Where both are incommoded least, In soul and body two unite...
Page 115 - This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars : as if we were villains on necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.
Page 251 - With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat. She was pinched and pulled, she said ; And he, by Friar's lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set...
Page 274 - O' th' compass in their bones and joints, Can by their pangs and aches find All turns and changes of the wind. And better than by Napier's bones Feel in their own the age of moons...
Page 349 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit...
Page 102 - He who sows the ground with care and diligence, acquires a greater stock of religious merit, than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers.