 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,...  Hudibras: Poem - Page 3by Samuel Butler - 1812 - 410 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Deverell - 1816 - 304 pages
...great critic, €5 Profoundly skill'd in analytic; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side ; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute 70 For rhetoric, he could not ope 81 His mouth, but out there flew a trope ; mention of the brain, fool,... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 456 pages
...great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic ; He could distinguish, and divide A hair, '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 j He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...gveat critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic ; He could distinguish, and divide A hair, '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,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 584 pages
...great critic, ', Profoundly skitl'd in analytic; lie could distinguish and divide A hair '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. All this, without a gloss or... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - Poetry - 1822 - 260 pages
...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. ' All this, without a gloss or comment, ' He could unriddle in a moment, " In proper terms such as... | |
 | William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic ; He could distinguish and divide A hair, '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 ; e * He'U prove a buzzard is no fowl,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...great critie, Profoundly skill'd in analytie: He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south nd ȣ / He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 pages
...pleader aad demonstrator. On either hand he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute ; He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse. Hudibrai, canto 1. Samuel Butler. The history of this inimitable bard, whose witty genius the heavy... | |
 | Guards - 1827 - 308 pages
...great critic, Profoundly ekill'd in analytic ; He could distinguish and decide A hair '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... | |
 | Timothy Flint - Mississippi River Valley - 1828 - 828 pages
...great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic ; He could distinguish and divide A hair, Hwixt 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 hone ; He'd prove a bu/zanl is DO fowl, And... | |
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