 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1817 - 368 pages
...the good old cause, with a reinforcement of a hundred wellarmed men from the Middle Ward. CHAPTER V. When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. Hudibras. IN the mean time, the insurgent cavalry returned from the pursuit, jaded and worn out with... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1817 - 300 pages
...the good oki cause, with a reinforcement of a hundred well-armed men from the Middle Ward. CHAPTER V. When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. HiuKbrat. IN the mean time, the insurgent cavalry returned from '.he pursuit, jaded and \vorn out with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...perused, so that no man has found the sound of a drum in this distich : "When pulpit, drum eecleeiastick, Was beat with fist instead of a stick." and that the...notice : "Honour is like the glassy bubble, Which cost philosophers such trouble ; Where, one part crack'd, the whole does fly, And wits are crack'd... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 370 pages
...these doggerel rhymes than of the parts that really deserve admiration. I am sure I have heard the ' Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick;' and There was an ancient sage philosopher ' Who had read Alexander Ross over,' more frequently quoted,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 pages
...with which their works have been hitherto perused, so that no man has found the sound of a drum in this distich : " When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, "...notice : " Honour is like the glassy bubble, " Which cost philosophers such trouble; " Where, one part crack'd, the whole does fly* " And wits are crack'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 430 pages
...with which their works have been hitherto perused, so that no man has found the sound of a drum in this distich : " When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, "...notice : " Honour is like the glassy bubble, " Which cost philosophers such trouble; " Where, one part crack'd, the whole does fly, " And wits are crack'd... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 690 pages
...with which their works have been hitherto perused, so that no man has found the sound of a drum in this distich : When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was...trouble : Where, one part crack'd, the whole does fly, And'wits are crack'd to find out why. In these verses,' says Minim, ' we have two striking accommodations... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 762 pages
...with which their works have been hitherto perused, so that no man has found the sound of a drum in this distich : When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was...without notice : Honour is like the glassy bubble, Which cost philosophers such trouble ; Where, one part crack'd, the whole does fly, And wits are crack'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 384 pages
...the good old cause, with a reinforcement of a hundred well-armed men from the Middle Ward. CHAPTER V. When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. Hudlbnu. In the meantime, the insurgent cavalry returned from the pursuit, jaded and worn out with... | |
 | Edward Moor - 1823 - 562 pages
...for " flashing hell-fire in the face" of a congregation of reprobates. Or alluded to in Hudibras— When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick. SMITHER. Light small rain; a Scotch mist, perhaps, or something short of it. " Dew it rain ?"— "... | |
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He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have been hitherto perused, so that no man has found the sound of a drum in this distich : — When pulpit, drum... 
