 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - Počet stránok 394
...Discoveries of things far set, They are but idle dreams and fancies, And savour strongly of the ganzas. Tell me but what's the natural cause Why on a sign no painter drawn The full moon ever, but the half? Resolve that with your Jacob's staff; Or why wolves raise a... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1704 - Počet stránok 180
...but idle Dreams and Fancies* And favour ftrongly of the Gauzes. Tell me but what's the nat'ral caufe, Why on a Sign no Painter draws The Full Moon ever, but the Half; Refolve that with your Jacob's- ft aff ; Or why Wolves raife a Hubbub at her, And Dogs howl when fhe... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Počet stránok 654
...Discoveries of things far fet, 'Iliey are but idle dreams and fancies, And savour strongly of the ganzas. first rebellion founded was in grace. But since the mighty ravage, which he made In German Ueholve that with your Jacob's staff; Or why wolves raise a hubbub at her, And dogs howl when she shines... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - Počet stránok 876
...are but idle dreams and fancies, And savour strongly of the ganzas. Tell me but what 's the nat'ral cause, "Why on a sign no painter draws The full moon ever, but the half? 785 Resolve that with your Jacob's staff; Or why wolves raise a hubbub at her, And dogs howl when she... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - Počet stránok 416
...Discoveries of things far fet, They are but idle dreams and fancies, And savour strongly of the ganzas.* Tell me but what's the natural cause Why on a sign no painter draws The full-moon ever, but the half? Resolve that with your Jaeob's stafl';* Or why wolves raise n hubbub... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - Počet stránok 456
...Discoveries of things far fet, They are but idle dreams and fancies. And savour strongly of the ganzas.* Tell me but what's the natural cause Why on a sign no painter draws * Domingo Gonsales wrote a Voyage to Ihe Moon, and j itl to be carried tlmUer by geese \n ' Canto o.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - Počet stránok 496
...things far set, 780 They are but idle dreams and fancies, ,-And savour strongly of the fganzas. ,> / Tell me but what's the natural cause Why on a sign...no painter draws The full -moon ever, but the half? 785 Resolve that with your Jacob's staff ; Or why wolves raise a hubbub at her, And dogs howl when... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - Počet stránok 314
...fet, They are but idle dreams and fancies, And savour strongly of the ganzas'7. Tell me but what 'a the natural cause Why on a sign no painter draws The full Moon ever, but the half? Resolve that with your Jacob's staff '8 ; 17 Domingo Gonsales wrote a Voyage to the Moon, and pretended... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - Počet stránok 846
...Hudibras, asks a puzzling question on this head, which we do not remember to have seen solved : — Tell me but what's the natural cause, Why on a Sign...no Painter draws The Full Moon ever, but the Half? It must be remembered, however, that the Crescent Moon is the Crest of Diana, and is the emblem of... | |
 | Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - 1824 - Počet stránok 386
...Butler, in his Hudibras, alludes to this circumstance, and says — " Tell me but what's the nat'ral cause, Why, on a sign, no painter draws The full moon ever, but the half." Oiher signs arc equally inexplicable ; but eccentricity in sign-painting is uot confined to the British... | |
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Or why wolves raise a hubbub at her, And dogs howl when she shines in water ? And I shall freely give my vote You may know something more remote. 
