 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
 | 1853 - Počet stránok 524
...Monsieur Sarasin, in a poem entitled, " La Defaite des Bouts-Rime;:," The Bout of the Bouts-Rimez. -^ " Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick ;" and " There was an ancient sage philosopher, Who had read Alexander Koss over," more frequently quoted,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - Počet stránok 524
...these doggerel rhymes, than of the parts that really deserve admiration, lam sure I have heard the Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick ; and There was an ancient sage philosopher, Who had read Alexander Eoss over ; more frequently quoted, than... | |
 | William Chambers - 1858 - Počet stránok 378
...this species of composition, being a satire on the manners of the Puritans during the Commonwealth : When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. The greatest of modern doggerelists was John Wolcot, better known as Peter Pindar, whose satirical... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - Počet stránok 476
...dogs; Both antichristian assemblies To mischief bent, as far's in them lies." His most quoted rhyme, when " Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick, is, singularly enough, no rhyme at all ; but the surprise of the echo, and the truth conveyed in it,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - Počet stránok 478
...dogs ; Both antichristian assemblies To mischief bent, as far 's in them lies." His most quoted rhyme, when " Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick, is, singularly enough, no rhyme at all ; but the surprise of the echo, and the truth conveyed in it,... | |
 | Richard Hurd, Robert Francis Kilvert - 1860 - Počet stránok 420
...off the drum-head. "Ah!" instantly replied his lordship, " that reminds me of my friend Hudibras ; When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. Had he been a soldier he could not have asked more questions relative to the garrison; of which having... | |
 | Squire - 1861 - Počet stránok 330
...ever and anon smiting his desk with clenched fist, reminding me of the opening lines of Hudibras, ' When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick.' And ' these are thy gods, 0 Israel ! ' These are what you fine ladies call fine preachers. Had there been... | |
 | 1861 - Počet stránok 858
...to belabour the desk and cushions, or the wooden cover of that rare treasure, a Bible, in the days " When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick." He possessed a feminine capacity for scolding, in addition to that of argumentative disputation —... | |
 | Various - 1868 - Počet stránok 492
...witnessed that were once so familiar in this land, and described by the satirical poet as the time "When pulpit drum ecclesiastic Was beat with fist instead of a stick. . . . When oyster-women locked their tish up, And trudged away to cry ' No bishop ! ' " But something... | |
 | 1874 - Počet stránok 792
...the Church nominees, and we were involuntarily reminded of the well-known couplet in Hudibras — " When pulpit drum ecclesiastic Was beat with fist instead of a stick." The object of the Church party was to promote its interests and to subvert the policy of the old Board,... | |
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