Hudibras: In Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late WarsAlex Murray & son, 1869 - 331 pages |
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Æneid Alluding probably ancient arms astrologers banter bear bear-baiting beard beast Ben Jonson better blood blows Butler Cæsar called Canto cause Cavaliers Cerdon Chimæra church conscience covenant dæmon death devil divine Don Quixote Dunstable Downs ears enemy England fear fight friends give Gondibert hand hang haste head heaven honour horse Hudibras Iliad Jesuits John John Birkenhead Julius Cæsar King King's Knight L'Estrange lady learned Lilly lived Lord Loyal Songs manner marriage ministers ne'er never nose o'er oath observes Oliver Cromwell opinion parliament person poem poet Pope Presbyterians pretended Prince quæ Quoth Hudibras Ralpho religion Roundhead Rump saints satire says shew Sidrophel sneer Spectator Squire swear sword Tatler tell thee things thou thought took true turn'd twas us'd Whachum William Lilly witches words
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Page 199 - 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 199 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.
Page 319 - ... letters. Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their closets at a certain hour of the day, and to converse with one another by means of this their invention. Accordingly when they were some hundred miles asunder, each of them shut himself up in his closet at the time appointed, and immediately cast his eye upon his dial-plate.
Page 265 - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Page 204 - twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too. Counterfeit ? I lie, I am no counterfeit: to die, is to be a counterfeit; for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man: but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfecT: image of life indeed. The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.
Page 30 - To be the true church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks; Call fire and sword and desolation A godly, thorough reformation, Which always must be carried on, And still be doing, never done; As if religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended...
Page 281 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
Page 24 - twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Page 137 - But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun. Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief 5 That thou her maid art far more fair than she.
Page 319 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.