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Hudibras, a Poem - Page 7
by Samuel Butler - 1819
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Reformation, Which always must be carry'd on, And still be doing, never done; As if religion were intended spots the nice admirer take. Twas thus Calypso once...beauty charm'd ; Her tongue bewitch'd as oddly as her More peevish, cross, and splenetie, Than dog distract or monkey sick; That with more care kept holiday...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...doing, never done ; As if religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended : A seet whose ehief y t j j j ; More peevish, eross, and splenetie, Than dog distraet or monkey siek ; That with more eare kept holiday...
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Hudibras: In Three Parts

Samuel Butler - 1829 - 346 pages
...out the proportion of notes from Ihe sounds of hammers upon an anvil. ^S^Which always must be earry'd on, And still be doing, never done : As if religion...somewhat still amiss: 210 More peevish, cross, and splenetick, Than dog distract, or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than others...
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Jones's Cabinet Edition of British Poets, Volume 2

1831 - 426 pages
...must be carry'd on, And still be doing, never done ; As if religion were intended For nothing else hut to be mended. A sect whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies : ___ this, And finding somewhat still amiss. '¿\ More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Th.-in dog distract,...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...controversies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks. A sect whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies;...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 holy-day...
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Puritan Morals Defended: A Discourse Delivered at the Dedication of the ...

Leonard Withington - 1832 - 36 pages
...the gcorners were on the other aide. Butler tbur describes them : A sect whose chief devotion ljes In odd perverse antipathies; In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss ; More peevish, cross and splenetic, Than dog distract and monkey sick ; That with more care keep holiday...
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A treatise on happiness [by J. Flamank].

James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...to the no small molestation of themselves as well as others." They seem to be eminently prolific " In odd perverse antipathies; In falling out with that or this, And finding something still amiss; More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick." —...
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler, Volume 1

Samuel Butler - 1835 - 340 pages
...so drawing up his troop in the inward court, " These, Sir (said the Cornet), are my Instructions." For nothing else but to be mended : A sect whose chief...distract, or monkey sick : That with more care keep holyday The wrong, than others the right way ; Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, // cij By damning...
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Hudibras, Volume 1

Samuel Butler - 1835 - 456 pages
...200 Call fire, and sword, and desolation, A godly-thorough-Reformation,7 Which always must be carry'd on, And still be doing, never done : As if Religion...whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies :8 militant, as struggling with temptations, and subject to persecutions : but the Presbyterians of...
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Hudibras; with notes by T.R. Nash, Volume 1

Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 pages
...200 Call fire, and sword, and desolation, A godly-thorough-Reformation/ Which always must be carry'd on, And still be doing, never done : As if Religion...whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies :8 militant, as struggling with temptations, and subject to persecutions : but the Presbyterians of...
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