Hudibras: A Poem in Three Cantos, Volume 1Rickaby, 1793 |
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Page iv
... never matriculated : Wood , on the authority of Butler's brother , fays , the poet spent fix or seven years there * ; but as other things are quoted from the fame authority , which I believe to be falfe , I should very much suspect the ...
... never matriculated : Wood , on the authority of Butler's brother , fays , the poet spent fix or seven years there * ; but as other things are quoted from the fame authority , which I believe to be falfe , I should very much suspect the ...
Page ix
... never having tasted the idle luxuries of life , he did not make to himself needlefs wants , or pine after imaginary pleasures : his fortune , indeed , was small , and fo was his ambition ; his integrity of life , and modeft temper ...
... never having tasted the idle luxuries of life , he did not make to himself needlefs wants , or pine after imaginary pleasures : his fortune , indeed , was small , and fo was his ambition ; his integrity of life , and modeft temper ...
Page xi
... never came among them , but the following line was in my mind : Raucaq ; garrulitas , ftudiumq ; inane loquendi ; For they talk fo much , they have not time to think ; and if they had all the wit in the world , their tongues would run ...
... never came among them , but the following line was in my mind : Raucaq ; garrulitas , ftudiumq ; inane loquendi ; For they talk fo much , they have not time to think ; and if they had all the wit in the world , their tongues would run ...
Page xxvii
... never had fo flight a thing fo good an effect . " Of this kind in modern days was the fong of God fave great George our King , and the Ca ira of Paris . Thus wonderfully did Hudibras operate in beating down the hypocrify , and false ...
... never had fo flight a thing fo good an effect . " Of this kind in modern days was the fong of God fave great George our King , and the Ca ira of Paris . Thus wonderfully did Hudibras operate in beating down the hypocrify , and false ...
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... never learn .. * Extract of a letter from Lord Oxford , taken from original letters by the Reverend John Weftley and his friends , illustrative of his early history , published by Joseph Priestley , LL.D .. printed at Birmingham , 1791 ...
... never learn .. * Extract of a letter from Lord Oxford , taken from original letters by the Reverend John Weftley and his friends , illustrative of his early history , published by Joseph Priestley , LL.D .. printed at Birmingham , 1791 ...
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