Hudibras: A Poem, in Three Cantos, Volume 1, Issue 1Rickaby, 1793 - 317 pages |
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Page iv
... should very much suspect the truth of this ar- ticle . Some expreffions , in his works , look as if he were acquainted with the customs of Oxford . Courfing was a term peculiar to that university ; see Part iii . c . ii . v . 1244 ...
... should very much suspect the truth of this ar- ticle . Some expreffions , in his works , look as if he were acquainted with the customs of Oxford . Courfing was a term peculiar to that university ; see Part iii . c . ii . v . 1244 ...
Page ix
... should have ap- peared in public life , and have been rewarded for the eminent . service his poem did to the royal cause ; but his innate mo- defty , and studious turn of mind , prevented folicitations : never having tasted the idle ...
... should have ap- peared in public life , and have been rewarded for the eminent . service his poem did to the royal cause ; but his innate mo- defty , and studious turn of mind , prevented folicitations : never having tasted the idle ...
Page xxix
... should be con- sidered , not as an individual , but as a species . It is not generally known , that meanings ftill more re- mote and chimerical than mere perfonal allusions , have been discovered in Hudibras ; and the poem would have ...
... should be con- sidered , not as an individual , but as a species . It is not generally known , that meanings ftill more re- mote and chimerical than mere perfonal allusions , have been discovered in Hudibras ; and the poem would have ...
Page xxxii
... should remember , that the parts were published at long intervals , † and that feveral of the dif- ferent cantos were defigned as fatires on different subjects or extravagancies . What the judicious Abbé du Bos has faid Spect . No. 60 ...
... should remember , that the parts were published at long intervals , † and that feveral of the dif- ferent cantos were defigned as fatires on different subjects or extravagancies . What the judicious Abbé du Bos has faid Spect . No. 60 ...
Page xxxiv
... should not Hudibras fhare those orna- ments at least with them which may be derived from the present improved state of typography and paper ? Some of the dark allusions , in Hudibras , to history , voyages , and the abftrufer parts of ...
... should not Hudibras fhare those orna- ments at least with them which may be derived from the present improved state of typography and paper ? Some of the dark allusions , in Hudibras , to history , voyages , and the abftrufer parts of ...
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againſt agen arms b'ing baſe bear bear-baiting beard beaſt Becauſe beſt blows Butler CANTO caſe cauſe Cerdon church cloſe confcience courſe Crowdero dame defigned diſpatch diſpute durance elſe ev'ry faid faints falſe fame faſt fatire fhall fide fight firſt flain fome fometimes ftout fuch fwear fword himſelf honour horſe houſe itſelf juſt juſtice Knight laſt learned leaſt leſs loſe Magnano moſt muſt ne'er noiſe noſe numbers o'er oath Orfin perfons pleaſe poem poet pow'r profe publiſhed Quoth fhe Quoth Hudibras Quoth Ralpho racters raiſe Ralpho reaſon refolv'd repreſent reſt Samuel Butler ſay ſecond ſee ſeen ſenſe ſet ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſpeak ſpeed ſpirit Squire ſtand ſtars ſtate ſteed ſtill ſtocks ſtone ſtout ſtraight ſtrange ſwear Talgol thee themſelves theſe thoſe thou Trulla turn'd twas underſtood Unleſs us'd uſe valour verſe whofe Whoſe worſe worſt wound