...people attacked. by Sir Samuel Luke.* The lines are well known in which he speaks of the time : — " When pulpit, drum, ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick;" and the general outcry against dignitaries is thus represented : — " The oyster women locked their fish...

...people attacked. by Sir Samuel Luke.* The lines are well known in which he speaks of the time :— " When pulpit, drum, ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick;" and the general outcry against dignitaries is thus represented:— " The oyster women locked their fish...

...people attacked. by Sir Samuel Luke.* The lines are well known in which he speaks of the time :— " When pulpit, drum, ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick;" and the general outcry against dignitaries is thus represented:— " The oyster women locked their fish...

...this next, And oh ! ye lords of ladies intellectual, Answer me truly, hav'nt they hcn-peck'd you all ? When pulpit drum ecclesia'stic Was beat with fist instead of a' stick ; where accent is attributed to the article ' a,' and the noun-substantive ' stick,' deprived of accent,...

...good old cause, with a reinforcement of a hundred wellarmed men from the Middle Ward.* CHAPTER XVIIL When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. Hudibrat. IN the meantime, the insurgent cavalry returned from the pursuit, jaded and worn out with...

...these doggerel rhymes than of the parts that really deserve admiration. I am sure I have heard the " Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic Was beat with fist instead of a stick," and " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over," more frequently quoted...

...the sense. He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have...notice : ' Honour is like the glassy bubble, ' Which cost philosophers such trouble ; ' Where, one part crack'd, the whole does fly, ' And wits are crack'd...

...the sense. He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have...notice: ' Honour is like the glassy bubble, ' Which cost philosophers such trouble; ' Where, one part crack'd, the whole does fly, ' And wits are crack'd...

...the edition by John Nichols and others. To other notes from this edition I append the letter N.] 3 " When pulpit drum ecclesiastic Was beat with fist instead of a stick." •• Hudibras," Port I., 0. i., 1. 10. « Jack Ogle, said to have been descended from a decent family...

...sense." He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have...hitherto passed without notice : " Honour is like the glossy bubble, Which cost philosophers such trouble ; Where, one part crack'd, the whole does fly,...