| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 434 páginas
...goblet, or a worm eaten flu£, As you like it, Act III. Sc. 10. This sword a dagger had hit iffye, That was but little for his age ; And therefore waited on him so, As dwarfs upon knights-errant do, Hudilras, canto . - Description of Hudibras's horse: He was well... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 314 páginas
...Serjeant Bum invading shoulder : Oft had it ta'en possession, And prisoners too, or made them run. This sword a dagger had, his page, That was but little for his age, And therefore waited on him so As dwarfs upon knights-errant do : It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1822 - 532 páginas
...it ta'en possession, And pris'ners too, or made them run. This sword a dagger had t' his page, 375 That was but little for his age ; And therefore waited on him so, As dwarfs upon knights-errants do. It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging.... | |
| 1823 - 878 páginas
...him " as concave as a covered goblet, or a worm-eaten " nut." As you like it, Act iii. sc. 10. ] COM This sword a dagger had his page, That was but little for his age ; And therefore waited on him so, As dwarfs upon knight-errants do. Hud'tbras, canto i. " Books, like men, their authors, have hut... | |
| 1823 - 714 páginas
...* Certain Infonnaiioqs, June 46, 1643. Parliament Scout, No. I. The Knight's Sword, we are told, " a dagger had, his page, That was but little for his age ; And therefore waited on him so, As dwarfs upon knights errant do. It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging,"... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...Serjeant Bom invading shoulder : Oft had it ta'en possession, And pris'ners too, or made them run. ll his jokes, for many a joke had be; Full well the busy whisper circling round, Convey'd the so, As dwarfs upon knights errant do : It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging:... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...Than Serjeant Bum invading shoulder: Oft had it ta'en possession, And pris'ners too, or made them run. e I eensure — you know what I mean — To save a bishop, may I name a dean ? F. A dean, sir ? so, As dwarfs upon knights errant do : It was a servieeable dudgeon. Either for fighting or for drudging... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 páginas
...Serjeant Bum invading shoulder : Oft had it ta'en possession, And pris'ners too, or made them run. This sword a dagger had, his page, That was but little for his age ; And therefore waited on him so, As dwarfs upon knights-errant do : It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1831 - 328 páginas
...there is a species, the purpose of which is to excite gaiety or mirth. Take the following examples : This sword a dagger had his page, That was but little for his age ; And therefore waited on him so, As dwarfs upon knights-errant do. HUDIBRAS, CANTO I. Description of Hudibras's horse : He was well... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 páginas
...method by which bum-bailiffs, as they are called, arrest persons, giving them a tap on the shoulder. • This sword a dagger had, his page, That was but little for his age :] Thus Homer accoutres AgaCANTO i.] HUDIBRAS. 33 And therefore waited on him so, As dwarfs upon knights... | |
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