The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler: A Revised Edition with Memoir and Notes, Band 2New York, G. Bell & sons, 1893 |
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Seite 24 - 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...
Seite 26 - But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease, And with its everlasting clack 445 Set all men's ears upon the rack.
Seite 84 - 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...
Seite 38 - The world is naturally averse To all the truth it sees or hears, But swallows nonsense, and a lie, With greediness and gluttony...
Seite 181 - Our pains are real things, and all Our pleasures but fantastical ; Diseases of their own accord, But cures come difficult and hard.
Seite 184 - Unhappy Man takes Pains to find, T' inflict himself upon his Mind; And out of his own Bowels spins A Rack and Torture for his Sins: Torments himself, in vain, to know...
Seite 121 - Her real estate, and personal ; And make an accurate survey Of all her lands, and how they lay, As true as that of Ireland, where The sly surveyors stole a shire : 10 T' observe her country, how 'twas planted, With what sh...
Seite 137 - The pride and glory of a foreign state, Made an agreement, on a summer's night, To search the Moon at full by her own light; To take a perfect inventory of all « Her real fortunes, or her personal, And make a geometrical survey Of all her lands, and how her country lay, As accurate as that of Ireland, where The sly surveyor 's said t...
Seite 20 - Is marry'd only to a thumb ; ( As wise as ringing of a pig, 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...
Seite 290 - ALL the inventions that the world contains, Were not by reason first found out, nor brains; But pass for theirs who had the luck to light Upon them by mistake or oversight.