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... says , " There is one English Poem , the title whereof is Hudibras ; -it is Don Quixote , it is our Satire Merippée blended to- gether . I never met with so much wit in one single book as in this . " To say more of this admirable Poem ...
... says , " There is one English Poem , the title whereof is Hudibras ; -it is Don Quixote , it is our Satire Merippée blended to- gether . I never met with so much wit in one single book as in this . " To say more of this admirable Poem ...
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... says Dr. says Dr. Grey , " some pictures , said to be of his drawing , which I mention not for the excellence of them , but to satisfy the reader of his early inclinations to that a noble art ; for which also he was afterwards entirely.
... says Dr. says Dr. Grey , " some pictures , said to be of his drawing , which I mention not for the excellence of them , but to satisfy the reader of his early inclinations to that a noble art ; for which also he was afterwards entirely.
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... ( says he , Spectator , No. 249 , ) had been set out with as much wit and humour in heroic verse as he is in doggerel , he would have made a much more agreeable figure than he does ; though the gene- rality of his readers are so much ...
... ( says he , Spectator , No. 249 , ) had been set out with as much wit and humour in heroic verse as he is in doggerel , he would have made a much more agreeable figure than he does ; though the gene- rality of his readers are so much ...
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... ( says Smollett , ) stuffed with pedantic conceits , culled and studied for the occasion ; and formed a natural picture of his own disposition and character , the strongest features of which were his sublime notion of the prerogative ...
... ( says Smollett , ) stuffed with pedantic conceits , culled and studied for the occasion ; and formed a natural picture of his own disposition and character , the strongest features of which were his sublime notion of the prerogative ...
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... courtesies to this poor gentleman , striving who should engross that commodity by the largest bounty , you could not but have con- demned them of much baseness . " " And now , " says Mrs. Hutchinson , " XXII PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.
... courtesies to this poor gentleman , striving who should engross that commodity by the largest bounty , you could not but have con- demned them of much baseness . " " And now , " says Mrs. Hutchinson , " XXII PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.
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adventure Æneid alludes Anabaptists ancient arms army b'ing bear Bear-baiting beard beast bishops blood blows Butler called cause Cerdon Charles church common conscience court Cromwell Crowdero devil divine dogs Don Quixote doth Duke enemy England English ev'ry eyes fanatics fell fight following lines force friends give Grey hand 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 saints Sancho Panza satire says sect Sir Harry Vane Sir Roger L'Estrange soldiers speaking spirit Squire stout swear sword thee thing thou thought took Trojan knight Trulla twas whipping words wound write
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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 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 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 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 4 - twixt south and south-west side ; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. 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 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 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.
Page 20 - s horse, The other would not stay his course. A Squire he had, whose name was Ralph, That in th' adventure went his half. Though writers, for more stately tone, Do call him Ralpho, 'tis all one ; And when we can, with metre safe, We'll call him so, if not, plain Ralph ; (For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses.
Page 5 - I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, 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 2 - And styled of war as well as peace. (So some rats of amphibious nature Are either for the land or water.) But here our authors make a doubt Whether he were more wise or stout.