Hudibras, a Poem, Том 2W. Lewis, 1819 |
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... Common - pray'r ; The Scorpion take the protestation , And Bear engage for reformation ; Made all the royal stars recant , Compound , and take the covenant ? Quoth Hudibras , The case is clear , The saints may ' mploy a conjurer ; As ...
... Common - pray'r ; The Scorpion take the protestation , And Bear engage for reformation ; Made all the royal stars recant , Compound , and take the covenant ? Quoth Hudibras , The case is clear , The saints may ' mploy a conjurer ; As ...
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... common scale Of things by measure , weight , and tale ; In all th ' affairs of church and state , ' Tis both the balance and the weight :) Then much less can it be without ; Divine astrology made out ; That puts the other down in worth ...
... common scale Of things by measure , weight , and tale ; In all th ' affairs of church and state , ' Tis both the balance and the weight :) Then much less can it be without ; Divine astrology made out ; That puts the other down in worth ...
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... common swear- ing ; and , according to Sir Robert Howard , ( Committee Act II . Sect . I. ) more severe in the punishment of swearing than cursing ; for when Teague was punished twelvepence for an oath , he asked what he should pay for ...
... common swear- ing ; and , according to Sir Robert Howard , ( Committee Act II . Sect . I. ) more severe in the punishment of swearing than cursing ; for when Teague was punished twelvepence for an oath , he asked what he should pay for ...
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... common in Butler's time , and not more deserving of faith than the astrologers . The race of these charlatans , it is to be hoped , is now nearly obsolete , but that the vulgar have still some reliance on such means of re- lief , may be ...
... common in Butler's time , and not more deserving of faith than the astrologers . The race of these charlatans , it is to be hoped , is now nearly obsolete , but that the vulgar have still some reliance on such means of re- lief , may be ...
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... common . The process was , to tie the suspected person hand and foot , and , putting them into a pond of water , if they sunk they were acquitted , but if they swam they were adjudged guilty . V. 146-7-8 . And some for sitting above ...
... common . The process was , to tie the suspected person hand and foot , and , putting them into a pond of water , if they sunk they were acquitted , but if they swam they were adjudged guilty . V. 146-7-8 . And some for sitting above ...
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Страница 108 - twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too. Counterfeit ? I lie, I am no counterfeit : to die, is to be a counterfeit ; for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man : but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed.
Страница 101 - 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...
Страница 297 - 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.
Страница 101 - 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.
Страница 316 - He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Страница 227 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end, Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Страница 317 - 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...
Страница 335 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
Страница 152 - 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...
Страница 343 - A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding ; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant ; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible.