Hudibras: In Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Volume 2J. Bentham, printer to the University, 1744 - 424 pages |
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... firft he laid Hand on was that of the Devil in Combat with " Saint Michael ; had he chofen with his Eyes open , he could 66 not have met with a better Protector for fo Diabolical an Art . " ' Twas a Custom in Alexandria formerly , for ...
... firft he laid Hand on was that of the Devil in Combat with " Saint Michael ; had he chofen with his Eyes open , he could 66 not have met with a better Protector for fo Diabolical an Art . " ' Twas a Custom in Alexandria formerly , for ...
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... Firft , and for fome little Skill he had in the Mathematicks , was by the Rab- ble accounted a Conjurer , and had the sottish Story of the Brazen Head father'd upon him , by the ignorant Monks of those Days . And Bob Grofted . ] Bishop ...
... Firft , and for fome little Skill he had in the Mathematicks , was by the Rab- ble accounted a Conjurer , and had the sottish Story of the Brazen Head father'd upon him , by the ignorant Monks of those Days . And Bob Grofted . ] Bishop ...
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... firft Place in the Calendar . Being poffefs'd with " this Error , it was no hard Matter to make St. Almachius of " San & um Almanacum , written in the old Way of Abbreviation . 66 Having thus framed the Saint , out of good Manners he ...
... firft Place in the Calendar . Being poffefs'd with " this Error , it was no hard Matter to make St. Almachius of " San & um Almanacum , written in the old Way of Abbreviation . 66 Having thus framed the Saint , out of good Manners he ...
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... firft the Time o ' th ' Day , 500 And welcom'd him , as he might fay : He afk'd him whence they came , and whither Their Bus'nefs lay ? Quoth Ralpho , hither . Did you not lofe ? -Quoth Ralpho , nay ; Quoth Whachum , Sir , I meant your ...
... firft the Time o ' th ' Day , 500 And welcom'd him , as he might fay : He afk'd him whence they came , and whither Their Bus'nefs lay ? Quoth Ralpho , hither . Did you not lofe ? -Quoth Ralpho , nay ; Quoth Whachum , Sir , I meant your ...
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... Firft . I find in Rymer's Fædera , vol . 16. p . 666. a special Pardon from King James to Simon Read , for practifing the Black - Art . . 580. You have a wrong Sow by the Ear . ] One of Sancho Pancha's proverbial Expreffions , " He that ...
... Firft . I find in Rymer's Fædera , vol . 16. p . 666. a special Pardon from King James to Simon Read , for practifing the Black - Art . . 580. You have a wrong Sow by the Ear . ] One of Sancho Pancha's proverbial Expreffions , " He that ...
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Page 164 - To make up one Hermaphrodite ; Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling...
Page 19 - But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again: And still he's in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was...
Page 176 - Soon as she spreads her hand, th' aerial guard Descend, and sit on each important card : First Ariel perch'd upon a matadore, Then each, according to the rank they bore ; For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, Are, as when women, wondrous fond of place.
Page 85 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 91 - And though you overcame the bear, The dogs beat you at Brentford fair ; Where sturdy butchers broke your noddle, And handled you like a fop-doodle. Quoth Hudibras, I now perceive You are no conj'rer, by your leave : That paultry story is untrue, And forg'd to cheat such gulls as you.
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Page 87 - There's but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war, A thief and justice, fool and knave, A huffing officer and a slave, A crafty lawyer and pick-pocket, A great philosopher and a block-head, A formal preacher and a player, A learn'd...
Page 21 - Th' intelligible world he knew, And all men dream on't to be true: That in this world there's not a wart That has not there a counterpart; Nor can there, on the face of ground An individual beard be found That has not, in that foreign nation, A fellow of the self-same fashion ; So cut, so coloured, and so curl'd, As those are in th
Page 261 - O' th' compass in their bones and joints, Can by their pangs and aches find All turns and changes of the wind, And better than by Napier's bones Feel in their own the age of moons...