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 284 - 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 74 - 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 ; But 'tis not to b
Seite 24 - The world is naturally averse To all the truth it sees or hears, But swallows nonsense and a lie With greediness and gluttony...
Seite 175 - Our pains are real things, and all Our pleasures but fantastical ; Diseases of their own accord, But cures come difficult and hard.
Seite 128 - 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 214 - Must full as much some other way discount. The Hebrew, Chaldee, and the Syriac, Do, like their letters, set men's reason back, And turn their wits that strive to understand it, (Like those that write the characters) left-handed : Yet he that is but able to express No sense at...
Seite 6 - With which th' unsanctify'd bridegroom 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 121 - Than question what h had seen with them. While all were thus resolved, a man Of great renown there, thus began — ' 'Tis strange, I grant ! But who can say What cannot be ; what can, and may ? Especially at so hugely vast...
Seite 128 - Hold no truth worthy to be known, That is not huge and overgrown, And explicate appearances, Not as they are, but as they please, In vain strive nature to suborn, And...
Seite 149 - 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...