 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pages
...peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distraught or monkey sick; That with more care keep holiday The wrong, than others the right way; Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. His DAGGER. This sword a dagger had his page, That... | |
 | Francis Edward Paget - 1858 - 354 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...keep holyday The wrong, than others the right way. Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipped GOD for spite. Rather than fail, they will defy... | |
 | Lambert A. Wilmer - 1859 - 422 pages
...hypocritical, common-place flummery. It is a common practice with editors, as it is with many other people to " Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to." Many journalists are strongly opposed to the assassination of seducers and adulterers ; and, (without... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...of worshipping God " for spite," or (hat 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," &c.— The Puritans set their faces against good cheer, particularly... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 248 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...care keep holy-day The wrong, than others the right way;t Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to : Still so perverse... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1861 - 358 pages
...against dangers to which they are neither of them liable. Both the one and the other, in plain truth, Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to. So that the exaggeration of the action of the State, in France, furnishes no reason for absolutely... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 360 pages
...falling out with that or this, And finding something 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.' In the year 1646, Christmas-day was ordered to... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distraught or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holiday The wrong, than 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... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...SHAESPERE. — Measure for Measure, Act II. Scene 1. (Ercalus in reference to the execution of Claudio.) Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to. BUTLER.— Hudibras, Canto I. Line 215. Where lives the man that hag not tried How mirth can into folly... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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...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... | |
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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... 
