 | Squire - 1861 - 330 pages
...ever and anon smiting his desk with clenched fist, reminding me of the opening lines of Hudibras, ' When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick.' And ' these are thy gods, 0 Israel ! ' These are what you fine ladies call fine preachers. Had there been... | |
 | 1861 - 858 pages
...to belabour the desk and cushions, or the wooden cover of that rare treasure, a Bible, in the days " When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick." He possessed a feminine capacity for scolding, in addition to that of argumentative disputation —... | |
 | Various - 1868 - 492 pages
...witnessed that were once so familiar in this land, and described by the satirical poet as the time "When pulpit drum ecclesiastic Was beat with fist instead of a stick. . . . When oyster-women locked their tish up, And trudged away to cry ' No bishop ! ' " But something... | |
 | 1874 - 792 pages
...the Church nominees, and we were involuntarily reminded of the well-known couplet in Hudibras — " When pulpit drum ecclesiastic Was beat with fist instead of a stick." The object of the Church party was to promote its interests and to subvert the policy of the old Board,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1878 - 384 pages
...hundred well-armed men from the Middle Ward.* * Note L. Skirmish at Drumclog. CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH. When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. HUDIBRAS. IN the meantime, the insurgent cavalry returned from the pursuit, jaded and worn out with... | |
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - English wit and humor - 1878 - 378 pages
...people attacked. by Sir Samuel Luke.* The lines are well known in which he speaks of the time :— " When pulpit, drum, ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick;" and the general outcry against dignitaries is thus represented:— " The oyster women locked their fish... | |
 | Alfred Guy K. L'Estrange - 1878 - 384 pages
...Hudibras. 299 by Sir Samuel Luke.* The lines are well known in which he speaks of the time : — " When pulpit, drum, ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick;" and the general outcry against dignitaries is thus represented : — " The oyster women locked their fish... | |
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - English wit and humor - 1878 - 380 pages
...Hudibras. 299 by Sir Samuel Luke.* The lines are well known in which he speaks of the time : — " When pulpit, drum, ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick;" and the general outcry against dignitaries is thus represented : — " The oyster women locked their fish... | |
 | Walter Scott - Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, 1679 - 1878 - 444 pages
...good old cause, with a reinforcement of a hundred wellarmed men from the Middle Ward.* CHAPTER XVIIL When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. Eudibras. IN the meantime, the insurgent cavalry returned from the pursuit, jaded and worn out with... | |
 | Gilbert Conway - English language - 1878 - 142 pages
...hcn-peck'd you all ? t/here ' all ' is treated as an enclytic ; yet when we come to a rhyme like this next, When pulpit drum ecclesia'stic Was beat with fist instead of a' stick ; where accent is attributed to the article ' a,' and the noun-substantive ' stick,' deprived of accent,... | |
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He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have been hitherto perused, so that no man has found the sound of a drum in this distich : " When pulpit, drum... 
