Hudibras: A Poem, Volume 2Akerman, 1822 - 494 pages |
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... true , 35 As in due time and place we'll shew : For he , with beard and face made clean , Being mounted on his steed agen , 40 ( And Ralpho got a - cock - horse too Upon his beast , with much ado , ) Advanc'd on for the Widow's house ...
... true , 35 As in due time and place we'll shew : For he , with beard and face made clean , Being mounted on his steed agen , 40 ( And Ralpho got a - cock - horse too Upon his beast , with much ado , ) Advanc'd on for the Widow's house ...
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... true , 225 That in this world there's not a wart That has not there a counterpart ; Nor can they on the face of ground An individual beard be found That has not in that foreign nation A fellow of the self - same fashion ; So cut , so ...
... true , 225 That in this world there's not a wart That has not there a counterpart ; Nor can they on the face of ground An individual beard be found That has not in that foreign nation A fellow of the self - same fashion ; So cut , so ...
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... true dog , that would shew tricks For th ' Emperour , and leap o'er sticks ; Would fetch and carry , was more civil Than other dogs , but yet no devil ; And whatsoe'er he's said to do , 645 He went the self - same way we go . 650 As for ...
... true dog , that would shew tricks For th ' Emperour , and leap o'er sticks ; Would fetch and carry , was more civil Than other dogs , but yet no devil ; And whatsoe'er he's said to do , 645 He went the self - same way we go . 650 As for ...
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... true bears have no tails . Some say the Zodiac constellations 895 900 Have long since chang'd their antique stations Above a sign , and prove the same In Taurus now , once in the Ram ; Affirm the Trigons chopp'd and chang'd , 905 The ...
... true bears have no tails . Some say the Zodiac constellations 895 900 Have long since chang'd their antique stations Above a sign , and prove the same In Taurus now , once in the Ram ; Affirm the Trigons chopp'd and chang'd , 905 The ...
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... true ! quoth he ; Howe'er you vapour , I can what I affirm make appear ; Whachum shall justify't t ' your face , 1005 And prove he was upon the place : He play'd the Saltinbancho's part , Transform'd t'a Frenchman by my art ; He stole ...
... true ! quoth he ; Howe'er you vapour , I can what I affirm make appear ; Whachum shall justify't t ' your face , 1005 And prove he was upon the place : He play'd the Saltinbancho's part , Transform'd t'a Frenchman by my art ; He stole ...
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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.