 | William Hogarth - 1808 - 346 pages
...dame Religion as for punk; When Gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling. A squire he had whose name was... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 pages
...them knew wherefore. " When Gospel trumpeter, surrounded " By long-ear'd rout to battle sounded ; " And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, " Was beat with fist, instead of a stick ; " Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, " And out he rode a colonelling." It is sometimes however... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1816 - 304 pages
...but in case the reader should not, merely by a comparison of the figures with the moon, and Fig. 2. And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick : Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling. A wight he was, whose very sight... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 560 pages
...wlw followed the fortunes of the king, and retained the old fashion of wearing their hair. V. 11. 12. And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick.'] Butler here alludes to the vehement action which the Presbyterian preachers used in the pulpit, and... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 456 pages
...of them knew wherefore : When gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded ; And pulpit, drum, ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick;* Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling.f A wight he was, whose very sight... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 pages
...them knew wherefore : When gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded; I And pulpit, drum, ecclesiastic, | Was beat with fist instead of a stick;* Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling.f A wight he Was, whose very sight... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 314 pages
...of them knew wherefore : When gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded; And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick 4 ; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling s. A wight he was, whose very... | |
 | Ambrose Marten - 1827 - 384 pages
...of them knew wherefore , When gospel trumpeter surrounded With long-ear'd rant, to battle .sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic Was beat with fist instead of a stick. TOWA RCS the close of a fine evening in the spring of the year 1650, a young man, mounted on a powerful... | |
 | John Allibond - 1834 - 56 pages
...proprie sic dictum : Nam rerum hie corporearum Vix quicquam est relictum. Pulvinar sic contundens. "\ And pulpit drum ecclesiastic Was beat with fist instead of a stick. A French nobleman in 1659 observed, that " these fungus preachers had the action of thrashers rather... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 332 pages
...preachers and themselves. When Gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded ; 10 And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick ; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling. A wight he was, whose very sight... | |
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Though not a man of them knew wherefore; When Gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-eared rout, to battle sounded; And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick : Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling. 
