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Page 23
... which drew the skin after it , and by these means , scarce a beard was left in
the kingdom at his death : but such a veneration had this people for these
ensigns of gravity , that many of them carefully preserved their beards in their
cabinets , to ...
... which drew the skin after it , and by these means , scarce a beard was left in
the kingdom at his death : but such a veneration had this people for these
ensigns of gravity , that many of them carefully preserved their beards in their
cabinets , to ...
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... yet I did not mean to baulk your wit : : 300 Which if you have , you must needs
know , What I have told you before now , And you b ' experiment have prov ' d , I
cannot love where I ' m belov ' d . Quoth Hudibras , — ' Tis a caprich 305 Beyond.
... yet I did not mean to baulk your wit : : 300 Which if you have , you must needs
know , What I have told you before now , And you b ' experiment have prov ' d , I
cannot love where I ' m belov ' d . Quoth Hudibras , — ' Tis a caprich 305 Beyond.
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Quoth she , - I grant you may be close In hiding what your aims propose : 440
Love - passions are like parables , By which men still mean something else :
Though love be all the world ' s pretence , Money ' s the mythologique sense ,
The real ...
Quoth she , - I grant you may be close In hiding what your aims propose : 440
Love - passions are like parables , By which men still mean something else :
Though love be all the world ' s pretence , Money ' s the mythologique sense ,
The real ...
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Let me be called a base man , so I am called a rich one : if a man is rich , who
asks if he be good ? the question is , how much we have , not from whence , or by
what means we have it : Every one has so much merit as he hath wealth . For my
...
Let me be called a base man , so I am called a rich one : if a man is rich , who
asks if he be good ? the question is , how much we have , not from whence , or by
what means we have it : Every one has so much merit as he hath wealth . For my
...
Page 54
... and not your heart : Nor will you raise in mine combustion , By dint of high
heroic fustian : dic fustian : 590 She that with poetry is won , Is but a desk to write
upon ; And what men say of her , they mean No more , than on the thing they lean
.
... and not your heart : Nor will you raise in mine combustion , By dint of high
heroic fustian : dic fustian : 590 She that with poetry is won , Is but a desk to write
upon ; And what men say of her , they mean No more , than on the thing they lean
.
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Page 66 - I'll be torn piece-meal by a horse, Ere I'll take you for better or worse. The Prince of Cambay's daily food Is asp, and basilisk, and toad, Which makes him have so strong a breath, Each night he stinks a queen to death ; Yet I shall rather lie in's arms Than yours on any other terms.
Page 27 - Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow ; Some kick'd, until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather ; And yet have met, after long running, 225 With some whom they have taught that cunning.
Page 30 - What glories must a whipping have ? Such great achievements cannot fail To cast salt on a woman's tail : For if I thought your nat'ral...
Page 225 - Twas he that put her in the pit, Before he pull'd her out of it : And as he eats his sons, just so He feeds upon his daughters too : Nor does it follow, 'cause a herald Can make a gentleman, scarce a year old, To be descended of a race Of ancient kings in a small space, That we should all opinions hold Authentic that we can make old.
Page 54 - She that with poetry is won Is but a desk to write upon ; And what men say of her they mean No more than on the thing they lean. Some with Arabian spices strive 595 T' embalm her cruelly alive ; Or season her, as French cooks use Their haut-gouts, bouilles, or ragouts VOl.
Page 121 - t happened in a town, There liv'da cobler, and but one, That out of doctrine could cut use, And mend men's lives as well as shoes. This precious brother having slain, In times of peace, an Indian, (Not out of malice, but mere zeal, Because he was an infidel...
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| Title | Hudibras, Volume 2 Hudibras, Samuel Butler Hudibras, Samuel Butler |
| Author | Samuel Butler |
| Publisher | Charles & Henry Baldwyn, 1819 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 30 Jan 2008 |
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