Hudibras: A Poem, in Three Cantos, Volume 1, Issue 1Rickaby, 1793 - 317 pages |
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... met with tragedies enough in real life ; whereas the comedy , or interlude , is a relief from anxious and disgusting reflections , and fuggefts fuch playful ideas , as wanton round the heart and enliven the AUTHOR OF HUDIBRAS . xix.
... met with tragedies enough in real life ; whereas the comedy , or interlude , is a relief from anxious and disgusting reflections , and fuggefts fuch playful ideas , as wanton round the heart and enliven the AUTHOR OF HUDIBRAS . xix.
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A Poem, in Three Cantos Samuel Butler. ideas , as wanton round the heart and enliven the very features . The hero marches out in search of adventures , to suppress thofe fports , and punish thofe trivial offences , which the vulgar among ...
A Poem, in Three Cantos Samuel Butler. ideas , as wanton round the heart and enliven the very features . The hero marches out in search of adventures , to suppress thofe fports , and punish thofe trivial offences , which the vulgar among ...
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... with hieroglyphic spade , Its own grave and the state's were made . Like Sampson's heart - breakers , it grew In time to make a nation rue ; 240 245 250 VOL . I. D Tho ' it contributed its own fall , To wait PART I. 17 CANTO I.
... with hieroglyphic spade , Its own grave and the state's were made . Like Sampson's heart - breakers , it grew In time to make a nation rue ; 240 245 250 VOL . I. D Tho ' it contributed its own fall , To wait PART I. 17 CANTO I.
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... heart , was ty'd , With basket - hilt , that would hold broth , And serve for fight and dinner both . In it he melted lead for bullets , To shoot at foes , and sometimes pullets ; To whom he bore fo fell a grutch , 350 355 He ne'er gave ...
... heart , was ty'd , With basket - hilt , that would hold broth , And serve for fight and dinner both . In it he melted lead for bullets , To shoot at foes , and sometimes pullets ; To whom he bore fo fell a grutch , 350 355 He ne'er gave ...
Page 78
... Profoundly skill'd in the black art , As English Merlin , for his heart ; But far more skilful in the spheres , Than he was at the fieve and fhears . 345 He cou'd transform himself to colour , As like the 78 PART I. CANTO II .
... Profoundly skill'd in the black art , As English Merlin , for his heart ; But far more skilful in the spheres , Than he was at the fieve and fhears . 345 He cou'd transform himself to colour , As like the 78 PART I. CANTO II .
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