...are, however, now almost forgotten, but his name is immortalized in Butler's inimitable poem : — ' There was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read...he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love.' Hudibras, cant. 2. HIS LIFE AND WORKS. 219 In spite, however, of all this opposition, the Baconian...

...impending stroke — and awoke with her head through a pane of glass in the window. CHAPTER VII. " Just as romances are ; for what else Is in them all, but love and battles ? O' th' first of these we have no great matter To treat of, but a world of the latter." BCTLEK. THE next day at breakfast,...

...?7ttK2T. HUDIBRAS. • CANTO II. THERE was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over,1 And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting, and of love. 1 There iras an ancient sage philosopher That had rend Alexander Ron over,'} Empedocles, a Pythagorean...

...impending stroke — and awoke with her head through a pane of glass in the window. CHAPTER VII. " Just as romances are ; for what else Is in them all, but love and battles 1 O' th' first of these we have no great matter To treat of, but a world of the latter." BUTLER. THE...

...Alexander Ross over,1 And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting, and of love. 1 There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over,] Empedocles, a Pythagorean philosopher and poet, held, that friendship and discord were principles which...

...polished spirits. The revolution in literary tastes which took place between the age of Caxton and * Just so romances are, for what else Is in them all, but lov« and battles ? that of Ascham, was owing to three principal causes — the Reformation, the revival...

...Aberdeen gave him £20, " to put his son to a trade." " There was an ancient sage philosopher, Who had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world,...he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love."* From this landing-place, a stair-case leads to a wretched garret, which is dignified by the style of...

...Southampton, a voluminous writer, who is now perhaps most generally known from the lines of Butler : " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he cou'd prove, Was made of fighting and of love." Hudibras, part i., cant, ii., v. 1—4. June 14. AD...

...Southampton, a voluminous writer, who is now perhaps most generally known from the lines of Butler : " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he cou'd prove, Was made of fighting and of love." Hudibras, part i., cant. ii., v. I — K June 14. AD...

...Southampton, a voluminous writer, who is now perhaps most generally known from the lines of Butler : " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he cou'd prove, Was made of fighting and of love." Hudibras, part i., cant, ii., v. 1 — *. Munro marches...