Hudibras: A Poem, in Three Cantos, Volume 1, Issue 1Rickaby, 1793 - 317 pages |
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... telling , incredible relations of travellers , false wit and injudicious affectation of ornament to be found in the poets , romance writers , & c . thus he fre- quently alludes to Purchas's Pilgrim , Sir Kenelm Digby's books , Bulwar's ...
... telling , incredible relations of travellers , false wit and injudicious affectation of ornament to be found in the poets , romance writers , & c . thus he fre- quently alludes to Purchas's Pilgrim , Sir Kenelm Digby's books , Bulwar's ...
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... tell what rules he did it by . Elfe , 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 . His ordinary rate of speech In loftiness of found was ...
... tell what rules he did it by . Elfe , 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 . His ordinary rate of speech In loftiness of found was ...
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... tell what hour o ' th ' day The clock does ftrike , by Algebra . • Befide , he was a fhrewd Philofopher , And had read ev'ry text and gloss over : Whate'er the crabbed'ft author hath , He understood b'implicit faith : 115 1.20 125 130 ...
... tell what hour o ' th ' day The clock does ftrike , by Algebra . • Befide , he was a fhrewd Philofopher , And had read ev'ry text and gloss over : Whate'er the crabbed'ft author hath , He understood b'implicit faith : 115 1.20 125 130 ...
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... tell ; 140 But oftentimes mistook the one For th❜other , as great clerks have done . He could reduce all things to acts , And knew their natures by abstracts ; Where entity and quiddity , The ghost of defunct bodies fly ; Where Truth ...
... tell ; 140 But oftentimes mistook the one For th❜other , as great clerks have done . He could reduce all things to acts , And knew their natures by abstracts ; Where entity and quiddity , The ghost of defunct bodies fly ; Where Truth ...
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... tell in what degree it lies ; And , as he was difpos'd , could 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 ...
... tell in what degree it lies ; And , as he was difpos'd , could 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 ...
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