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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... "
Hudibras, in three parts. Repr. of ed. of 1779 [ed. by A. Murray]. - Página 14
de Samuel Butler - 1869
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A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical Sketches

William Francis Collier - 1868 - 550 páginas
...What can we expect but broad satiric fun in a poem in which we find a canto beginning thus : — " There was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read Alexander Ross over." The adventures of Don Quixote, no doubt, suggested the idea of this work Sir Hudibras, a Presbyterian...
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Book of Elegant Poetical Extracts

John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 páginas
...FAM*.) NOVELS — ROMANCE. Last scene of all, That inds this strange, eventful history. SHAKSPEARE. He swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting...for what else Is in them all, but love and battles ? BUTLER'S Iludibras. Now fiction's groves- we tread, where young romance Laps the glad senses in her...
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The Montgomery Manuscripts: (1603-1706)

George Hill - 1869 - 536 páginas
...sneer at him in Ilitdibras was more popular than perhaps any of his own most poetical efforts : — " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read...he could prove, WAS made of fighting and of love." The following is an entry in Evelyn's Diary, under date 1st February, 1653, during the exile of Ross...
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Hudibras: In Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars

Samuel Butler - 1869 - 340 páginas
...munimentum regnante Carolo V. fecisse," &c. Zeilleri Topograph. GalHse.. That had read Alexander Ross over.1 And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love ; Just so romances are,3 for what else Is in them all but love and battles ?3 O' th' first of these w* have no great matter...
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A History of English Literature: In a Series of Biographical Sketches

William Francis Collier - 1869 - 572 páginas
...What can we expect but broad satiric fun in a poem in which we find a canto beginning thus : — " There was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read Alexander Ross over." The adventures of Don Quixote, no doubt, suggested the idea of this work. Sir Hudibras, a Presbvierian...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 139

1874 - 600 páginas
...commentaries gave point to the lines which Addison thought to be the best known in Hudibras : — ' There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over.' In Germany Hofmann followed with his ' Umbra in luce : sive ' consensus et dissensus religionum profanarum,'...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 páginas
...apply in jest or earnest to, No business of importance, play, Or state, to pass the time away. BUTLER. There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read...he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love. HITLER: Hudibras. Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action...
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The poetical works of Samuel Butler, with life and critical diss. by G ...

Samuel Butler - 1877 - 610 páginas
...Religions in the World from the Creation to his own Time.' And swore the world, as he could prove, 3 Was made of fighting and of love. Just so romances...for what else Is in them all but love and battles ? 0' th' first of these w' have no great matter To treat of, but a world o' th' latter, In which to...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 páginas
...apply in jest or earnest to, No business of importance, play, Or state, to pass the time away. BUTLER. There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read...he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love. BUTLER : Hudibras. Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action...
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A Manual of English Literature

Henry Morley - 1879 - 720 páginas
...for comic double and treble rhymes, like those which have kept alive the name of Alexander Ross : " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read...he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love." So Butler, at the opening of "Hudibras," spoke of the times " when civic fury first grew high," " And...
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