Hudibras,: poëme de Samuel Butler,Chez Jombert, 1819 |
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... worse than fiends in hell , And that she - devil Jezebel , That laugh'd and tee - he'd with derision , To see them take your deposition . What then , quoth Hudibras , was he That play'd the dev'l to examine me ? A rallying weaver in the ...
... worse than fiends in hell , And that she - devil Jezebel , That laugh'd and tee - he'd with derision , To see them take your deposition . What then , quoth Hudibras , was he That play'd the dev'l to examine me ? A rallying weaver in the ...
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... worse Than managing a wooden - horse ; Dragg'd out through straiter holes by th ' ears , Eras'd or coup'd for perjurers ; Who , though th ' attempt had prov'd in vain , Had had no reason to complain : But , since it prosper'd , ' tis ...
... worse Than managing a wooden - horse ; Dragg'd out through straiter holes by th ' ears , Eras'd or coup'd for perjurers ; Who , though th ' attempt had prov'd in vain , Had had no reason to complain : But , since it prosper'd , ' tis ...
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... worse , Than take this out - of - fashion'd course , To hope , by stratagem , to woo her , Or waging battle to subdue her : Though some have done it in romances , And bang'd them into amorous fancies ; As those who won the Amazons , By ...
... worse , Than take this out - of - fashion'd course , To hope , by stratagem , to woo her , Or waging battle to subdue her : Though some have done it in romances , And bang'd them into amorous fancies ; As those who won the Amazons , By ...
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... worse ; But worst of all , to give her over , " Till she's as desp'rate to recover : For bad games are thrown up too soon , Until th ' are never to be won . But since I have no other course , But is as bad t ' attempt , or worse , He ...
... worse ; But worst of all , to give her over , " Till she's as desp'rate to recover : For bad games are thrown up too soon , Until th ' are never to be won . But since I have no other course , But is as bad t ' attempt , or worse , He ...
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... Worse and worse . And made me mount upon the bare ridge , T'avoid a wretcheder miscarriage . Sir , quoth the lawyer , not to flatter ye , You have as good and fair a battery As heart can wish , and need not shame The proudest man alive ...
... Worse and worse . And made me mount upon the bare ridge , T'avoid a wretcheder miscarriage . Sir , quoth the lawyer , not to flatter ye , You have as good and fair a battery As heart can wish , and need not shame The proudest man alive ...
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Page 22 - This stratagem t' amuse our foes; 240 To make an honourable retreat, And wave a total sure defeat : For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.
Page 174 - But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease ; And, with its everlasting clack, Set all men's ears upon the rack.
Page 170 - 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...
Page 56 - And for his false opinion pay : To whom the Knight, with comely grace, Put off his hat, to put his case ; Which he as proudly entertain'd As th...
Page 48 - He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still, Which he may adhere to, yet disown, For reasons to himself best known...
Page 32 - tis not now, who's stout and bold ; But who bears hunger best and cold ; And he's approv'd the most deserving, Who longest can hold out at starving : And he that routs most pigs and cows, The formidablest man of prowess. So th...
Page 166 - Mong these there was a politician, With more heads than a beast in vision, And more intrigues in every one Than all the whores of Babylon : So politic, as if one eye Upon the other were a spy, That, to trepan the one to think The other blind, both strove to blink: And in his dark pragmatic way As busy as a child at play. H...
Page 60 - not to flatter ye, You have as good and fair a battery As heart can wish, and need not shame The proudest man alive to claim...
Page 178 - As coins are harden'd by the' allay : And obstinacy's ne'er so stiff, As when 'tis in a wrong belief.
Page 66 - And make an artist understand To copy out her seal, or hand ; Or find void places in the paper To steal in something to entrap her ; Till with her worldly goods, and body, Spite of her heart, she has endow'd ye : Retain all sorts of witnesses, That ply i' th' Temple, under trees, Or walk the round, with Knights o...