Th' adventure of the bear and fiddle Is sung, but breaks off in the middle. When civil fury 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... Poetical Works: With the Life of the Author - Página 18de Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 páginas
...fell oat, they knew not why ; When foul words, jealousies, and fears Set folk together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk. For dame Religion, as for Punk. Butler, Hud. 1, I. 1. "Wild controversy then, which long had slept, Into the press from ruined cloisters... | |
| Johannes Scherr - 1882 - 324 páginas
...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,...for punk ; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore : When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to... | |
| Johannes Scherr - 1882 - 334 páginas
...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,...for punk ; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore : When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to... | |
| 1885 - 320 páginas
...Nottingham Daily Express, if it entirely differs from me, supports (amongst others) a class of papers — "Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Tho" not a man of them knew wherefore." I have in no way noticed this article, further than by reprinting it here (with the above remarks),... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 páginas
...fell out, they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears Set folk together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For dame Religion, as for punk. 801 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 1, Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain ; The creature's... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1884 - 624 páginas
...turning the crusadoes of the Christians one against another ; and, as Hudibras said in another case, Hade them fight like mad or drunk, For dame Religion as for punk. Of this you have a complete account in the history of the popes' decrees against the Count de Toulouse,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1890 - 364 páginas
...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; l (Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore;) When gospel-trumpeter,... | |
| 1866 - 320 páginas
...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. All Holles' MSS. are now in the British Museum, and in those relating to Lincolnshire, under the title... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 492 páginas
...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...swear for, Tho' not a man of them knew wherefore; When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick,... | |
| Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 348 páginas
...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,...for punk ; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore : When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded With long-eared rout, to... | |
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