Poetical Works, Volume 2Griffin, Bohn, and Company, 1861 |
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... supposed to have been derived from the account of the man who was taken by the children of Israel in the act of gathering sticks on the Sabbath , and condemned to be stoned to death . - Numbers xv . 32 , et seq . But how he came to be ...
... supposed to have been derived from the account of the man who was taken by the children of Israel in the act of gathering sticks on the Sabbath , and condemned to be stoned to death . - Numbers xv . 32 , et seq . But how he came to be ...
Page 38
... supposed to devour his daughters , of whom Truth is one . The satire applies generally to the assumption of fictitious pedi- grees by the help of the heralds ; but it had a special application to the time of the Civil Wars , when many ...
... supposed to devour his daughters , of whom Truth is one . The satire applies generally to the assumption of fictitious pedi- grees by the help of the heralds ; but it had a special application to the time of the Civil Wars , when many ...
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... supposed he had gone direct to heaven ; but the more probable version of his death , related by Laertius , is that riding to Messina in his chariot he was thrown out and broke his hip , which brought on a fever , of which he died , in ...
... supposed he had gone direct to heaven ; but the more probable version of his death , related by Laertius , is that riding to Messina in his chariot he was thrown out and broke his hip , which brought on a fever , of which he died , in ...
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... supposed to determine his temper , constitution , and destiny . † That is , the number of wives to which he was predestined by the planetary influence predominant at his birth . There's but the twinkling of a star Between a man 50 HUDIBRAS ...
... supposed to determine his temper , constitution , and destiny . † That is , the number of wives to which he was predestined by the planetary influence predominant at his birth . There's but the twinkling of a star Between a man 50 HUDIBRAS ...
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... . The knight may be supposed to refer to his function of scout - master . Agreeably to the invariable custom of all knights errant . 8 Ovid . - Metam . viii . I judged it better from a quick- Set hedge to HUDIBRAS . 75.
... . The knight may be supposed to refer to his function of scout - master . Agreeably to the invariable custom of all knights errant . 8 Ovid . - Metam . viii . I judged it better from a quick- Set hedge to HUDIBRAS . 75.
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Page 122 - Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you, seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business ; but we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
Page 196 - For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again.
Page 36 - Bumbastus kept a devil's bird Shut in the pummel of his sword, That taught him all the cunning pranks Of past and future mountebanks.
Page 213 - Like Charity ; else right and wrong Could never hold it out so long, And, like blind Fortune, with a sleight, Convey men's interest and right From Stiles's pocket into Nokes's, As easily as Hocus Pocus...
Page 15 - And was old dog at physiology; But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again: And still he's in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was...
Page 51 - There's but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war; A thief and justice, fool and knave, A huffing officer and a slave; A crafty lawyer and a pick-pocket, A great philosopher and a blockhead; A formal preacher and a player, A learn'd physician and manslayer.
Page 71 - s done, Or may I never see the sun ; For which I humbly now demand Performance at your gentle hand; 170 And that you'd please to do your part As I have done mine, to my smart.
Page 134 - That us'd to break up ground and dig), The bride to nothing but her will, That nulls the after-marriage still: Some were for th...
Page 212 - Meanwhile they robb'd me and my horse, And stole my saddle," — " Worse and worse !'" " And made me mount upon the bare ridge, T" avoid a wretcheder miscarriage.
Page 225 - Could never equal, nor come nigh. ' For women first were made for men, Not men for them. — It follows, then, That men have right to every one, And they no freedom of their own; And therefore men have power to choose, But they no charter to refuse.