 A sect whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies, In falling out with that or this And finding somewhat still amiss; More peevish, cross and splenetic Than dog distract or monkey sick: That with more care keep holyday The wrong, than others...  Hudibras: The first [-third and last] part - Página 11de Samuel Butler - 1709 - 226 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Samuel Butler - 1864 - 426 páginas
...cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holy-day The wrong,23 than others the right way ; Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to : Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worship'd God for spite : The... | |
 | William Kelly (of Leicester.) - 1865 - 336 páginas
...kingdom of England or dominion " Were so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipp'd God for spite. That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than others the right way : Quarrel with minc'd pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend — plum-porridge ; Fat pig... | |
 | 1866 - 390 páginas
...somewhat still amiss ; 210 More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick : That with more care keep holyday The wrong, than others...right way ; Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, 215 By damning those they have no mind to : Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipp'd God... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1866 - 516 páginas
...for rhyming, calls a sect More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distraught, or monkey sick. That with more care keep holyday The wrong, than others the right way ; . . . . . . Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipped God for spite. § Mr. Boyd illustrates,... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 544 páginas
...somewhat still amiss ; . 210 More peevish, cross, and splenetic ; Than dog distract or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holyday The wrong, than others...Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to : Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipp'd God for spite :... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 páginas
...finding somewhat still amiss : More peevish, cross, and splenetick, Than doe distract, or monkey sick : That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than...Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to : Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worship 'd God for spite. Butler,... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 páginas
...something still amiss : More peevish, cross, and splenetick, Than dog distract, or monkey sick ; Than with more care keep holy-day The wrong than others...Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to ; Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipp'd God for spite. The... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1869 - 168 páginas
...peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick. That with more care keep holiday The wrong, than others the right way : Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to. Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worship'd God for spite. The... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 páginas
...A sect whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies .... That with more care keep holiday The wrong, than others the right way ; Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. Throughout this satiric poem, in which the Puritans... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 páginas
...peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick. 25 That with more care keep holy-tlay The wrong, than others the right way ; Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to : Still so perverse and opposite, 30 As if they... | |
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