 | Collectanea topographica et genealogica - 1843 - 464 pages
...Ross, whose name is now better known in connexion with Hudibras, than from his voluminous works : — " There was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read Alexander Ross over." Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary contains a sketch of his history. He lived with the Henley family... | |
 | 1843 - 434 pages
...dead since." Only in poems of the same order do we find the trisyllabic rhyme, as in the conplet, " There was an ancient sage philosopher. That had read Alexander Ross over." As for rhymes of greater length, they have only been used in occasional jeux-d'espnt. An additional... | |
 | Charles Farquhar Shand - 1845 - 616 pages
...Southampton, a voluminous writer, who is now perhaps most generally known from the lines of Butler : — ' There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he cou'd prove, Was made of fighting and of love.' HCDIBRAS, Tart I. Cant. ii. v. 1-4." [Gordon's Scots... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1846 - 324 pages
...takes the Fiddler prisoner, Conveys him to enchanted castle ; There shats him fast in wooden bastile. THERE was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read...and of love : Just so Romances are, for what else 5 Is in them all, but love and battles i' O' th' first of these we've no great matter To treat of,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 pages
...disperse. HEROES OF ROMANCE. There was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read Alexander Boss over,1 And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of...what else Is in them all, but love and battles ? O' th' first of these w' have no great matter To treat of, but a world o' the latter, In which to do the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 pages
...fisperse. HEROES OF ROMANCE. There was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read Alexander Ross over,i And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of...what else Is in them all, but love and battles ? O' th' first of these w' have no great matter To treat of, but a world o' the latter, In which to do the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...disperse. HEROES OF ROMANCE. There was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read Alexander Boss over,i And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of...for what else Is in them all, but love and battles 1 O' th' first of these w' have no great matter To treat of, but a world o' the latter, In which to... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...NOVELS — ROMANCE. 1. Last scene of all, That ends this strange, eventful history. SHAKSI'EARE. 2. He swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting...for what else Is in them all, but love and battles ? BUTLER'S Hudibras. 3. Now fiction's groves we tread, where young romance Laps the glad senses in... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1850 - 528 pages
...v. 383; Icetid. v. 362; Phfflnis. v. 1139. HUDIBRAS. CANTO II. THERE was an ancient sage philosophei That had read Alexander Ross over,* And swore the...for what else Is in them all but love and battles ?t * Empedocles, a Pythagorean philosopher and poet, held, that friendship and discord were principles... | |
 | 1853 - 888 pages
...well as in the churchman of the old school. Butler says, in his Hudibras, canto ii, line 1, that — " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over," and if George Fox was not that sage philosopher, he seems to have been as hard a reader ; and had read... | |
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THERE was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love. Just so Romances are, for what else Is in them all but love and battles ? O' th' first of these w' have... 
