Hudibras: A Poem, Volumen2Akerman, 1822 - 494 páginas |
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... Ancients was unknown ; How many Dukes , and Earls , and Peers , Are in the planetary spheres ; Their airy empire , and command ; Their sev'ral strengths by sea and land ; 250 255 What factious they've , and what they drive at In public ...
... Ancients was unknown ; How many Dukes , and Earls , and Peers , Are in the planetary spheres ; Their airy empire , and command ; Their sev'ral strengths by sea and land ; 250 255 What factious they've , and what they drive at In public ...
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... ancient obelisk Was rais'd by him , found out by Fisk , On which was written , not in words , 405 But hieroglyphic mute of birds , Many rare pithy saws concerning The worth of astrologic learning : From top of this there hung a rope ...
... ancient obelisk Was rais'd by him , found out by Fisk , On which was written , not in words , 405 But hieroglyphic mute of birds , Many rare pithy saws concerning The worth of astrologic learning : From top of this there hung a rope ...
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... ancient conjurers were wont To make her from her sphere dismount , 600 And to their incantations stoop ; They scorn'd to pore through telescope , Or idly play at bo - peep with her , To find out cloudy or fair weather , Which ev'ry ...
... ancient conjurers were wont To make her from her sphere dismount , 600 And to their incantations stoop ; They scorn'd to pore through telescope , Or idly play at bo - peep with her , To find out cloudy or fair weather , Which ev'ry ...
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... ancient kings in a small space , That we should all opinions hold Authentic that we can make old . Quoth Sidrophel , It is no part Of prudence to cry down an art , And what it may perform deny , Because you understand not why . Trake ...
... ancient kings in a small space , That we should all opinions hold Authentic that we can make old . Quoth Sidrophel , It is no part Of prudence to cry down an art , And what it may perform deny , Because you understand not why . Trake ...
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... ancient road , And nearer to the earth is come 885 ' Bove fifty thousand miles from home ; Swore ' twas a most notorious flam , And he that had so little shame To vent such fopperies abroad , Deserv'd to have his rump well claw'd ...
... ancient road , And nearer to the earth is come 885 ' Bove fifty thousand miles from home ; Swore ' twas a most notorious flam , And he that had so little shame To vent such fopperies abroad , Deserv'd to have his rump well claw'd ...
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Términos y frases comunes
agen Albert Laski alludes allusion almanack Anabaptists Anaxarchus ancient appear army astrologers barratry beast Ben Jonson better blood body bus'ness Butler Caligula called Canto cause Cavaliers cheat church Colonel conscience covenant death devil divine Don Quixote ears enemies ev'ry eyes false fear feats following lines forc'd friends give grace Grey says hand hang haste head heaven honour horse Hudibras husband Jesuits King King's Knight ladies lived Lord lover marriage moon Napier's bones natural ne'er never o'er oaths observes opinion Paracelsus Parliament person philosopher poet pow'r Presbyterians pretended prisoner prov'd Quoth Quoth Hudibras Ralpho restoration ridiculous Rump Rump Parliament saints Sidrophel Sir Roger L'Estrange soul Squire stars swear tell thee things thou thought told took trepan tricks true turn turn'd twas us'd Whachum witchcraft witches words worse Zoroaster
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Página 115 - 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...
Página 455 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; It becomes The throned monarch better than his crown : His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Página 115 - 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.
Página 454 - 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.
Página 170 - A mode that is held honourable, As well as French and fashionable: For when it falls out for the best, Where both are incommoded least, In soul and body two unite...
Página 115 - 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 stars : as if we were villains on necessity ; fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on.
Página 251 - With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat. She was pinched and pulled, she said ; And he, by Friar's lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set...
Página 274 - O' th' compass in their bones and joints, Can by their pangs and aches find All turns and changes of the wind. And better than by Napier's bones Feel in their own the age of moons...
Página 349 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst : For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit...
Página 102 - He who sows the ground with care and diligence, acquires a greater stock of religious merit, than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers.