 For his religion it was fit To match his learning and his wit: 'Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant...  Bell's Edition - Seite 23von John Bell - 1797Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 Seiten
...When he harangu'd, but known his phrase, He would have us'd no other ways. [Religion of Hudibrat.] For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit. 'Twas Presbyterian true blue ; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 Seiten
...pebble-stones When he harangn'd, but known his phrse, He would have us'd no other ways. BELIGION OF HUDIBRAS. For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit. 'T was Presbyterian true blue; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints — whom all men grant... | |
 | Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 296 Seiten
...Whether the Serpent, at the Fall, Had cloven feet, or none at all : All this, without a gloss or comment, He could unriddle in a moment, In proper terms, such as men smatter, When they throw out, aud miss the matter. For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit : 190 'Twas Presbyterian... | |
 | 1855 - 604 Seiten
...But," &c. But the clenching passage would, of course, be that describing the knight's religion : — " ),Z 7M nt >q n `} 4{UFh Z gu Cʞw /h0 O _ a ] ; 'Twas Presbyterian, true blue ; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant... | |
 | 1856 - 754 Seiten
...flourish most in barren ground, He had such plenty, as sufficed To make some think him circumcised. For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit : 'Twas Presbyterian true blue ; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1856 - 602 Seiten
...But," &c. But the clenching passage would, of course, be that describing the knight's religion : " For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit ; Twas Presbyterian, true blue ; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 Seiten
...the Serpent, at the Fall, Had cloven feet, or none at all : All this, without a gloss or comment, 185 He could unriddle in a moment, In proper terms, such...and miss the matter. For his religion, it was fit Io match his learning and his wit: 100 'Twas Presbyterian true blue ; For he was of that stubborn crew... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 570 Seiten
...term ; their religion and their morality being marked by it as mean and contemptible. Thus Butler : For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit ; 'T was Presbyterian true blue. — Hudlb. Canto I. That this epithet of derision should find its... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1862 - 328 Seiten
...or as Duns Scotus — ' He could raise scruples, dark and nice, And after solve them in a trice.' ' For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit ; 'Twas Presbyterian true blue ; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 Seiten
...three years later, and the third not till 1678. He died in London in 1680. RELIGION OF HUDIBRAS. FOB his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit. 'Twas Presbyterian true blue ; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant... | |
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