 As well as they themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry ' Rope,' and  Bell's Edition - Seite 31von John Bell - 1797Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 Seiten
...Ornithologie, or the Speech of Birds, to which probably Mr. Butler might allude. 50 HUDIBRAS. [PART i. Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak...they talk, When they cry Rope — and Walk, Knave, walk.4 He'd extract numbers out of matter,5 And keep them in a glass, like water, Of sov'reign pow'r... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 456 Seiten
...intitled, Ornithologie, or the Speech of Birds, to which probably Mr. Butler might allude. voL. I. E • Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak...they talk, When they cry Rope — and Walk, Knave, walk.4 He'd extract numbers out of matter/ And keep them in a glass, like water, Of sov'reign pow'r... | |
 | Oxonian - 1835 - 386 Seiten
...an amulet and charm That would do neither good nor harm. He understood the speech of birds As well as they themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest...parrots mean That speak and think contrary, clean ; What member 'tis of whom they talk, Why they cry, rope and — walk, knave, walk. He could foretell... | |
 | Samuel Reynolds Hole - 1835 - 380 Seiten
...an amulet and charm That would do neither good nor harm. He understood the speech of birds As well as they themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest...parrots mean That speak and think contrary, clean ; What member 'tis of whom they talk, Why they cry, rope and — walk, knave, walk. He could foretell... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 340 Seiten
...Rosycrucian lore as learned 545 As he that Veri> adeptus earned : He understood the speech of birds As well as they themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest...parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; sso What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry Rope, and Walk, Knave, walk. He'd extract numbers... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 Seiten
...Stafford, intitled, Ornithologie, or the Speech of Birds, to which probably Mr. Butler might allude. Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; 650 What member 'tis of whom they talk, When they cry Rope — and Walk, Knave, walk.4 He'd extract... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 582 Seiten
...shut out? to some person. Warburton quotes the following lines very appositely from Hudibraa: — " Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; What member 'tis of whom they talk, When they cry TJiyv, and Walk, knart, walk." Dro. E. Perdy !,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 418 Seiten
...from this, The parrot's prophecy may be undcrstood by means of the following lines ic Hudibras:— 'Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; IN hut member 'tis of whom they talk, Cour. Mark, how he trembles in his ecstasy1! Pinch. Give me... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 Seiten
...Warburton quotes the following lines from Butler, in reference to Ralpho's skill in augury : — " Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak, and think contrary clean ; What member 't is, of whom they talk, When they cry 'rope,' and 'walk, knave walk.' " •• I ,.-,.'r... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 Seiten
...themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry « Rope,' and « Walk, Knare, walk. ' He'd extract numbers out of matter, And keep them in a glass, like water, Of sov'reign... | |
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