The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler, Band 2Bell and Daldy, 1866 |
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Seite 293 - That dwell in ships, like swarms of rats, and prey Upon the goods all nations...
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 16 - And turn'd to th' outward man the inward; More proper for the cloudy night Of Popery than Gospel-light : Others were for abolishing That tool of matrimony, a Ring, With which th' unsanctify'd bridegroom Js 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 67 - To th' course of nature, but its own : The courage of the bravest daunt, And turn poltroons as valiant : For men as resolute appear, With too much as too little fear ; And, when they're out of hopes of flying, Will run away from death by dying ; Or turn again to stand it out, And those they fled, like lions, rout.
Seite 128 - This strange Memoir o' th' telescope, One, peeping in the tube by chance, Beheld the Elephant advance, And from the west side of the Moon ^To th
Seite 136 - That is not huge and overgrown, And explicate appearances, Not as they are, but as they please ; In vain strive Nature to suborn, And, for their pains, are paid with scorn.
Seite 292 - 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.
Seite 231 - Wav'd to assert the murther of a prince, The author of false Latin to convince ; But laid the merits of the cause aside, By those that understood them to be try'd ; And counted breaking Priscian's head a thing More capital than to behead a king, For which he 'as been admir'd by all the learn'd Of knaves concern'd, and pedants unconcern'd. JUDGMENT is but a curious pair of scales, That turns with th...
Seite 135 - Elephant; Avow'd, his Snout could be no Mouse's, But a true Elephant's Proboscis. Others began to doubt, and waver, Uncertain which o' th' two to favour; And knew not whether to espouse The cause of th
Seite 157 - These were their learned speculations, And all their constant occupations, To measure wind, and weigh the air, And turn a circle to a square ; To make a powder of the sun, By which all doctors should b...