The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 |
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adventure ancient arms astrologer Bear Bear-baiting beard beast beat blood blows break broke bruised Butler cause Cerdon cheat Church Colonel Pride conjurer conscience Crowdero dame devil Dogs durance e'er ears enchanted enemy eyes false feats fell fight force fortune give grace head heart heaven hold honour horse I'the King Knight ladies laid law of arms learned lover Magnano moon Napier's bones ne'er never nose numbers o'er O'the oaths on't Orsin Parliament poem poets Presbyterian prove quarter Quoth Hudibras Quoth Ralpho rage resolved Saints SAMUEL BUTLER self-same Sidrophel Sir Roger L'Estrange soul specieses Squire stars steed stout straight swear sword swore Synods tail Talgol tell thee things thou hast thought tricks true Trulla truncheon turn turn'd twas valour vow'd Whachum Whore of Babylon William Lilly witches words worse wounds
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Страница 28 - twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument, a man 's no horse. He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Страница 34 - Twas Presbyterian true blue; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant Saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks; Call fire, and sword, and desolation, A godly, thorough Reformation, Which always must be carried on, And still be doing, never done; As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be...
Страница 26 - When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore: When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling.
Страница 201 - 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...
Страница 166 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Страница 27 - And styled of war as well as peace. (So some rats of amphibious nature Are either for the land or water.) But here our authors make a doubt Whether he were more wise or stout.
Страница 16 - If inexhaustible wit could give perpetual pleasure, no eye would ever leave half-read the work of Butler; for what poet has ever brought so many remote images so happily together ? It is scarcely possible to peruse a page without finding some association of images that was never found before.
Страница 26 - Chief of domestic knights and errant, Either for chartel* or for warrant ; Great on the bench, great in the saddle, That could as well bind o'er as...
Страница 37 - S[h]oulders through the Fire : Our Knight did bear no less a Pack Of his own Buttocks on his Back : Which now had almost got the UpperHand of his Head, for want of Crupper.
Страница 197 - That deals in Destiny's dark counsels, And sage opinions of the Moon sells, To whom all people, far and near, On deep importances repair : When brass and pewter hap to stray, And linen slinks out o...