 | Thomas Winthrop Coit - 1845 - 566 pages
...departed ? Have not those who now live (1845) seen graphically verified the lines of Hudibras, Who with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than others the right way 1 ie, who would positively take more pains to desecrate Christmas, than others would to reverence it?... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...of worshipping God " for spite," or that of the exquisite, never-tobe-sufficiently repeated couplet, Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to. • " Quarrel mith minc'd pies," Sec.— The Puritans set their faces against good cheer, particularly... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1846 - 324 pages
...out with that or this. And finding somewhat still amiss : 2I0 More peevish, cross, and splenetick, Than dog distract, or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than othefs the right way : Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, 3I5 By damning those they have no mind... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 pages
...worshipping God " for spite," or that of the exquisite, never-to-be-sufficiently repeated couplet, Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to. 6 " Quarrel with mine' d pies," &c.— The Puritans set their faces against good cheer, particularly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distraught or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holiday nd less Greek, From thence to honour thee I will not seek For names ; but call forth thund'ring worshipp'd God for spite ; The self-same thing they will abhor One way, and long another for ; Freewill... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...peevish, cross, aud splenetic, Than dog distraught or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holiday incliu'd to, By damning those they have no mind to. Still so perverse and opposite. As if they worshipp'd... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...antipathies : In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss : More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holiday The wrong, than others the right way ; Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those... | |
 | 124 pages
...falling out with that and this, And finding somewhat still amiss : More peevish, cross, and splenetick, Than dog distract, or monkey sick ; That with more...others the right way : Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to : Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipped... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...more care keep holiday The wrong, than others the right way ; Compound for eins they arc ¡nclin'd hose that have their eyes and sight en All wit and fancy, like a diamond, The more ex worshipp'd God for spit« ; The self-same thing they will abhor One way, and long another for ; Freewill... | |
 | 1905 - 640 pages
...Among the lines which do not appear in the first edition, and are now given, is the famous distich. Compound for Sins, they are inclin'd to ; By damning those they have no mind to, perhaps the best known and the most frequently quoted in the book. We ourselves first heard thi» publicly... | |
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A sect whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies ; In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss ; More peevish, cross, and splenetic... 
