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Page i
... natural gifts ; a wit just , fruitful , piercing , solid , and universal ; an understanding clear and distinct ; an imagination neat and pleasant ; an elevation of soul , that depends not on art or study , but is purely the gift of ...
... natural gifts ; a wit just , fruitful , piercing , solid , and universal ; an understanding clear and distinct ; an imagination neat and pleasant ; an elevation of soul , that depends not on art or study , but is purely the gift of ...
Page xii
... nature learn to strive , And get the knack of dulness how to thrive . " In 1721 , a handsome monument was erected to the memory of Butler , in Westminster Abbey , at the expense of Alderman Barber , a printer of great eminence , who was ...
... nature learn to strive , And get the knack of dulness how to thrive . " In 1721 , a handsome monument was erected to the memory of Butler , in Westminster Abbey , at the expense of Alderman Barber , a printer of great eminence , who was ...
Page xvi
... natural , yet inimitable . " This has been long the distinguishing characteristic of Hudibras , grounded upon an undeniable truth , that all imitations have hitherto proved unsuccessful ; and when we consider the subject matter of the ...
... natural , yet inimitable . " This has been long the distinguishing characteristic of Hudibras , grounded upon an undeniable truth , that all imitations have hitherto proved unsuccessful ; and when we consider the subject matter of the ...
Page xix
... Nature . Such manners as depend upon standing regulations and general passions are co - extended with the race of man ; but those modifications of life , and peculi- arities of practice , which are the progeny of error.
... Nature . Such manners as depend upon standing regulations and general passions are co - extended with the race of man ; but those modifications of life , and peculi- arities of practice , which are the progeny of error.
Page xxi
... natural picture of his own disposition and character , the strongest features of which were his sublime notion of the prerogative , his aversion to the Puritans , his tenderness towards the Roman Catholics , and his vanity and self ...
... natural picture of his own disposition and character , the strongest features of which were his sublime notion of the prerogative , his aversion to the Puritans , his tenderness towards the Roman Catholics , and his vanity and self ...
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Æneid alludes Anabaptists ancient arms army b'ing bear Bear-baiting beard beast bishops blood blows Butler called cause Cerdon Charles CHIG church common conscience court Cromwell Crowdero devil divine dogs Don Quixote doth Duke enemy England English ev'ry eyes fanatics fell fight following lines friends give Grey hast head honour horse house of peers Hudibras humour Iliad John Birkenhead justice King King's Knight lady learned Lord Magnano ment ne'er never nose o'er oath observes Oliver Cromwell Orsin Parliament party passage person poem poet Pope Pope Joan preachers Presbyterian pretended prince Puritans Queen Quoth Hudibras Ralpho religion ridicule RSITY saints Sancho Panza satire says sect Sir Harry Vane Sir Roger L'Estrange SITY soldiers speaking spirit Squire stout swear sword thee thing thou thought took Trulla twas UNIV UNIVE whipping words wound
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Page 424 - All this ! ay, more : fret till your proud heart break ; Go show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge ? Must I observe you ? must I stand and crouch Under your testy humour ? By the gods, You shall digest the venom of your spleen, Though it do split you...
Page 5 - H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.
Page 347 - But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 10 - A sect whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies, In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss ; More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick...
Page 22 - Still they are sure to be i' th' right. 'Tis a dark-lanthorn of the spirit, Which none see by but those that bear it ; A light that falls down from on high, For spiritual trades to cozen by ; An ignis fatuus that bewitches And leads men into pools and ditches, To make them dip themselves, and sound For Christendom in dirty pond ; To dive, like wild-fowl, for salvation, And fish to catch regeneration.
Page 271 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 8 - He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice; As if Divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd...
Page 10 - ... devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies; In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss: More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick. That with more care keep Holy-day The wrong...
Page 4 - He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Page lix - Consider, it will soon carry you a great way ; it will carry you from earth to heaven, and there you shall find, to your great joy, the prize to which you hasten, a crown of glory.