 | Samuel Butler - 1881 - 276 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 That had read Alexander Ross over," more frequently quoted... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1882 - 322 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... | |
 | AUSTIN DOBSON - 1883 - 590 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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...the edition by John Nichols and others. To other notes from this edition I append the letter N.] 3 " When pulpit drum ecclesiastic Was beat with fist instead of a stick." •• Hudibras," Port I., 0. i., 1. 10. « Jack Ogle, said to have been descended from a decent family... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 pages
...perused, so that no man has found the sound of a drum in this distich: '' When pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, Was beat with fist instead of a stick ;" and that...hitherto passed without notice : " Honour is like the glossy bubble, Which cost philosophers such trouble ; Where, one part crack'd, the whole does fly,... | |
 | 1888 - 266 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...instead of a stick"; and that the wonderful lines upon Honor and a Bubble have hitherto passed without notice : " Honor ia like the glassy bubble, "Which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 286 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...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 - 1889 - 286 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 beat with fist instead of a stick ;"a and that the wonderful lines upon honour and a bubble have hitherto passed without notice ; " Honour... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 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 beat with fist instead of a stick ; " 2 and that the wonderful lines upon honour and a bubble have hitherto passed without notice : "... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1891 - 520 pages
...hundred well-armed men from the Middle Ward.* • See Note P, - Skirmish at Drumclog. CHAPTER XVIII. When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. HUDIDRAS. IN the meantime, the insurgent cavalry returned from the pursuit, jaded and worn out with... | |
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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... 
