 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 390 páginas
...munimcntmn regnante Carolo V. fecisse, &c. Vid. Zeilleri Topograph. Galliet, vol. 1. p. 4-4. CANT. v. 1, 2. There was an ancient sage philosopher, — That had read Alexander Ross over] This vvrse runs the same fate with the eleventh of the first Canto, in being censured by Mr. Addison,... | |
 | 1832 - 574 páginas
...tragedy. The Author evidently agrees with " That ancient sage philosopher Who h il i.-.jd Aluxander Koss over, And swore the world, as he could prove. Was made of fighting and of love." Love and murder constitute the staple of every tragedy, and here we have both in abundance ; but there... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 532 páginas
...takes the Fiddler prisoner ; Conveys him to enchanted castle, There shuts him fast in wooden bastilc . THERE was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read...all but love and battles ? \/ O' th' first of these we've no great matter To treat of, but a world o' th' latter : In which to do th' injur'd right We... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 542 páginas
...takes the Fiddler prisoner ; Conveys him to enchanted castle, There shuts him fast in wooden bastile. THERE was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read...and of love : Just so romances are, for what else 5 Is in them all but love and battles ? O' th' first1 of these we've no great matter To treat of, but... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1822 - 430 páginas
...Ross, SIR JOHN, commemorated in Dunhar's Lament, but not otherwise known. , Ross, DR. ALEXANDER. " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read...he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love." Dr. Ross, whose name these sarcastic lines of Butler have, perhaps, done more to preserve, than the... | |
 | Joseph] [Robertson, Sholto Percy - 1822 - 400 páginas
...Scot. Ross, SIB JOHN, commemorated in Dunbar's Lament, but not otherwise known. Iloss, Dn. ALEXANDER. " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read...he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love." Dr. Ross, whose name these sarcastic lines of Butler have, perhaps, done more to preserve, than the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 314 páginas
...takes the Fiddler prisoner, Conveys him to enchanted castle, There shuts him fast in wooden Bastile. THERE was an ancient sage philosopher That had read...And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of righting and of love. Just so Romances are, for what else Is in them all but love and battles ? O'... | |
 | Niccolò Forteguerri - 1822 - 280 páginas
...thus I solve this hard phenomenon." And these of Butler, in the same last-mentioned kind of verse : " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over." * Here the 5th foot is analogous to " rtsolvtr*." M Our dodecasyllabics, such as the two lines to which... | |
 | 1824 - 492 páginas
...PANTON, Cheapside, London; and EDWARD WEST & Co. Edinburgh. 3, CUBLL, PRINT EB. MECHANICS' MAGAZINE. * There was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read...what else Is in them all, but love and battles ? O' the first of these we're no great matter To treat of, but a world o' th' latter ; In which to do the... | |
 | 1824 - 492 páginas
...Alexander ROM over' And swore the world, as he could proro, A vi- made of fighting and of lore : Just BO romances are ; for what else Is in them all. but love and battles ? O' the first of these we've no great matter To treat of, but a world o' th ' latter ; In which to do the... | |
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THERE was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read Alexander Ross over. And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love ; Just so romances are, for what else Is in them all but love and battles? O' th' first of these w' have... 
