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Page vi
... appears clear that Butler in writing it had a far more material object in view than merely to expose an individual character to ridicule . His situation in the family of Sir Samuel Luke must have afforded him many vi THE LIFE OF.
... appears clear that Butler in writing it had a far more material object in view than merely to expose an individual character to ridicule . His situation in the family of Sir Samuel Luke must have afforded him many vi THE LIFE OF.
Page viii
... writing his inimitable Hudibras ; and , that it was a reproach to the court that a person of his loyalty and wit should suffer in obscurity , and under the wants he did . The Duke seemed al- ways to hearken to him with attention enough ...
... writing his inimitable Hudibras ; and , that it was a reproach to the court that a person of his loyalty and wit should suffer in obscurity , and under the wants he did . The Duke seemed al- ways to hearken to him with attention enough ...
Page xv
... writes ; it affords us not the time of finding faults ; we pass through the levity of his rhyme , and one is ... writing . Besides , were they really faults , they are neither so many as to cast a blemish upon the known excellencies of ...
... writes ; it affords us not the time of finding faults ; we pass through the levity of his rhyme , and one is ... writing . Besides , were they really faults , they are neither so many as to cast a blemish upon the known excellencies of ...
Page xvi
... writing to be in Butler , which is the being easy and natural , yet inimitable . ” This has been long the distinguishing characteristic of Hudibras , grounded upon an undeniable truth , that all imitations have hitherto proved ...
... writing to be in Butler , which is the being easy and natural , yet inimitable . ” This has been long the distinguishing characteristic of Hudibras , grounded upon an undeniable truth , that all imitations have hitherto proved ...
Page xvii
... writer , unworthy of perusal . The truth is , that there are very few writers from whom more benefit may be derived than Butler . The soundness of his political principles , his attachment to the church of England , and his abhor- rence ...
... writer , unworthy of perusal . The truth is , that there are very few writers from whom more benefit may be derived than Butler . The soundness of his political principles , his attachment to the church of England , and his abhor- rence ...
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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.