Hudibras: A Poem in Three Cantos, Volume 1Rickaby, 1793 |
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... prove this fpecies of poetry to be of great antiquity . The inventor of the modern mock heroic was Aleffandro Taffoni , born at Modena 1565. His Secchia rapita , or * Or the mock deification of Claudius ; a burlesque of Apotheofis , or ...
... prove this fpecies of poetry to be of great antiquity . The inventor of the modern mock heroic was Aleffandro Taffoni , born at Modena 1565. His Secchia rapita , or * Or the mock deification of Claudius ; a burlesque of Apotheofis , or ...
Page xxix
... proved : his real name feems to have been Heraclitus ( not the philofopher ) , and nothing more is known of him , but that Euftathius often cites him in his comment- Proclus * , Philot and Origen , have loft fight AUTHOR OF HUDIBRAS . xxix.
... proved : his real name feems to have been Heraclitus ( not the philofopher ) , and nothing more is known of him , but that Euftathius often cites him in his comment- Proclus * , Philot and Origen , have loft fight AUTHOR OF HUDIBRAS . xxix.
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... 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 , 65 70 75 And rooks Committee - Men , or Trustees . He'd run in debt by ...
... 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 , 65 70 75 And rooks Committee - Men , or Trustees . He'd run in debt by ...
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... prove it , Below the moon , or else above it : What Adam dreamt of when his bride Came from her closet in his fide : Whether the devil tempted her By an High - Dutch interpreter : If either of them had a navel ; Who first made music ...
... prove it , Below the moon , or else above it : What Adam dreamt of when his bride Came from her closet in his fide : Whether the devil tempted her By an High - Dutch interpreter : If either of them had a navel ; Who first made music ...
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... by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apoftolic blows , and knocks ; Call fire , and fword , and defolation , A godly - thorough - Reformation , 200 All this without a gas , or comment , He 14 PART I. CANTO I.
... by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apoftolic blows , and knocks ; Call fire , and fword , and defolation , A godly - thorough - Reformation , 200 All this without a gas , or comment , He 14 PART I. CANTO I.
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