Hudibras: A Poem, Volumen2Akerman, 1822 - 494 páginas |
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... death . Are not these fine commodities To be imported from the skies , And vended here among the rabble For staple goods and warrantable ? Like money by the Druids borrow'd , In th ' other world to be restored . Quoth Sidrophel , To let ...
... death . Are not these fine commodities To be imported from the skies , And vended here among the rabble For staple goods and warrantable ? Like money by the Druids borrow'd , In th ' other world to be restored . Quoth Sidrophel , To let ...
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... death ) , Not out of cunning , but a train 1115 1120 Of atoms justling in his brain , As learn'd philosophers give out ; So Sidrophello cast about , And fell t ' his wonted trade again 1125 To feign himself in earnest slain . First ...
... death ) , Not out of cunning , but a train 1115 1120 Of atoms justling in his brain , As learn'd philosophers give out ; So Sidrophello cast about , And fell t ' his wonted trade again 1125 To feign himself in earnest slain . First ...
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... death , That Hudibras , to all appearing , Believ'd him to be dead as herring . He held it now no longer safe To tarry the return of Ralph , But rather leave him in the lurch : / Thought he , He has abus'd our Church , Refus'd to give ...
... death , That Hudibras , to all appearing , Believ'd him to be dead as herring . He held it now no longer safe To tarry the return of Ralph , But rather leave him in the lurch : / Thought he , He has abus'd our Church , Refus'd to give ...
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... death . V. 111-2 . When brass and pewter hap to stray , And linen slinks out o ' the way . ] Our poet enumerates with great minuteness the different occasions on which it was usual to consult astrologers : they are exactly of the same ...
... death . V. 111-2 . When brass and pewter hap to stray , And linen slinks out o ' the way . ] Our poet enumerates with great minuteness the different occasions on which it was usual to consult astrologers : they are exactly of the same ...
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... death , and doleful dreary head . " V. 475. When stars do fall , & c . ] The falling of stars was ac- counted ominous of some extraordinary calamities . In the Mid- summer Night's Dream , Oberon says , " And certain stars shot madly ...
... death , and doleful dreary head . " V. 475. When stars do fall , & c . ] The falling of stars was ac- counted ominous of some extraordinary calamities . In the Mid- summer Night's Dream , Oberon says , " And certain stars shot madly ...
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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.