WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk ; VOL. Littell's Living Age - Стр. 31856Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - Страниц: 844
...Presbyterians, as to the reigning monarch's dotage upon his mistresses. HUDIBRAS, PART I. CANTO I. WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out,...fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them light, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion as for punk ; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though... | |
| James Miller - 1844 - Страниц: 536
...rise to the most violent proceedings^ which will form the subject of next chapter. CHAPTER III. r 44 When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why." — Hudilvas. " With pipes and drum, their colours flying, To the town-hall the Nyne are hieing.."... | |
| 1844 - Страниц: 520
...beauties of this extraordinary poem. Butler opens his poem with a rapid sketch of the state of society — "When civil dudgeon first grew high. And men fell out they knew not why, * * « * * And pulpit, dram ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick ;" proceeds to describe... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - Страниц: 692
...are a few such compelled rhymes in ' Iludibras,' but the number is astonishingly small. ttililims.'] ` , whv: When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made then» fight,... | |
| George Hodder - 1845 - Страниц: 364
...heroic deeds would have immortalized them, had they lived in less peaceful times— " When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why...jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears." Society, like a landscape, has its lights and shadows—its sunshine and gloom; the author has therefore... | |
| Walter Scott - 1845 - Страниц: 878
...SIR, Very much your faithful and obedient servant, JONAS DRYASDUST. Michaelma*-day, 1822, YORE. t|ii When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When foul words, jealousies, and fears, Set folk together by the ears — B4TLEB. ILLIAM, the Conqueror... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - Страниц: 868
...his justice be as short as his memory, When civil dudgeon first grew high. And men fell out they kuew not why ; When hard words, jealousies and fears, Set folks together by the ears. Butler. Hudibrai, part. i. can. I. He is even ready to fear that divines should take his hoi eat freedom... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1845 - Страниц: 310
...turning the crusadoes of the Christians, one against another ; and, as Hudibras said in another case, " Made them fight like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for Punk." Of this you have a complete account in the history of the Pope's decrees against the Count de Thoulouse,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - Страниц: 290
...would not have Shakspeare tried by a Grecian standard. DESCRIPTION OF HUDIBRAS AND HIS EQUIPMENTS. When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out...fight, like mad or drunk, For dame Religion, as for punk1 (Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore) ; When gospel-trumpeter,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - Страниц: 282
...would not have Shakspeare tried by a Grecian standard. DESCRIPTION OF HUDIBRAS AND HIS EQUIPMENTS. When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out...fight, like mad or drunk, For dame Religion, as for punki (Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore) ; When gospel-trumpeter,... | |
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