 He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have been hitherto perused, so that no man has found the sound of a drum in this distich : " When pulpit, drum...  The British Essayists - Strana 199úprava: - 1808Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Austin Dobson - 1888 - Počet stránok 266
...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...instead of a stick"; and that the wonderful lines upon Honor and a Bubble have hitherto passed without notice : " Honor ia like the glassy bubble, "Which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - Počet stránok 424
...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...sound of a drum in this distich: '' When pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, Was beat with fist instead of a stick ;" and that the wonderful lines upon honour and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - Počet stránok 286
...sense.1 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - Počet stránok 316
...sense.1 He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have...ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick ; ' 2 and that the wonderful lines upon honour and a bubble have hitherto passed without notice : "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - Počet stránok 286
...the sensed He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have...ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick ;"a and that the wonderful lines upon honour and a bubble have hitherto passed without notice ; " Honour... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1891 - Počet stránok 520
...hundred well-armed men from the Middle Ward.* • See Note P, - Skirmish at Drumclog. CHAPTER XVIII. When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. HUDIDRAS. IN the meantime, the insurgent cavalry returned from the pursuit, jaded and worn out with... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - 1896 - Počet stránok 362
...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...such trouble : Where, one part crack'd, the whole does fly, And wits are crack'd to find out why". 1 A worthless tragedy by Dr. Brown, a minor poet and... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - 1896 - Počet stránok 324
...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...philosophers such trouble: Where, one part crack'd, the whole does fly, And wits are crack'd to find out why". 1 A worthless tragedy by Dr. Brown, a minor poet and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1898 - Počet stránok 362
..." My lord, I am so wearied, and so sleapy, that I have wryton this very confusedly." CHAPTER XVIII. When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. Hudibras. IN the meantime, the insurgent cavalry returned from the pursuit, jaded and worn out with... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1899 - Počet stránok 424
...a-going, I took the best occasion I could, to put him upon telling us the story of old Gantlett, 1 " When pulpit drum ecclesiastic Was beat with fist instead of a stick." — "Hudibras," Part I. ci line 10. 101 which he always does with very particular concern. traced up... | |
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