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Let him go back to Lexington and teach the Rule of Three, for by God, he'll never demonstrate the Rule of One!" He waved a claw-like hand. "Kindly do not interrupt. Stiff, fanatic, inhuman, callous, cold, half mad and wholly rash, without military capacity, ambitious as Lucifer and absurd as Hudibras I ask again what is this person doing at the head of this army? Has any one confidence in him?
An esquire passed among his neighbours for a great scholar, if Hudibras and Baker's Chronicle, Tarlton's Jests and the Seven Champions of Christendom, lay in his hall window among the fishing rods and fowling pieces. No circulating library, no book society, then existed even in the capital: but in the capital those students who could not afford to purchase largely had a resource.
But, seriously, seriously, there is danger in the very air I breathe! I must away to that envious Jessopp instantly; but first let me finish the bottle." A strange harmonious inclination Of all degrees to reformation. Hudibras. About seven miles from W , on the main road from , there was in 17 a solitary public-house, which by the by is now a magnificent hotel.
When an English tourist sees it, he either asks "Who the devil was Samuele Butler?" or wonders why the Sicilians should perpetuate the memory of the author of Hudibras. Well, it cannot be denied that the English are only too anxious to recognize a man of genius if somebody will kindly point him out to them.
Many affected to treat him as a mere buffoon the concoctor, as one bitterly put it, of 'a pretty fardle of tales bundled together, and they have had the hap to fall into such hands as had rather lose a friend, not to say their country, than a jest. Anthony Wood, writing at the time of its appearance, classes it with 'the fooleries, playes, poems, and drolling books, with which, as he bitterly complains, people were 'taken with' coupling with it Marvell's Rehearsal Transposed and Butler's Hudibras.
If the retreat of Bladud should be discovered, news of the fact was to be sent to the king, and the prince was to be left there in peace with any of the men who might volunteer to live with him. But on no account were they or Bladud to return to Hudibras' town as long as there was the least danger of infection.
This may be counted the begining of the rebellion, in my opinion. "I am, my lord, "Your lordship's most humble servant, "J. Grahame. When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. Hudibras.
Every fresh Member, upon his first Night, is to entertain the Company with a Dish of Codfish, and a Speech in praise of AEsop; whose portraiture they have in full Proportion, or rather Disproportion, over the Chimney; and their Design is, as soon as their Funds are sufficient, to purchase the Heads of Thersites, Duns Scotus, Scarron, Hudibras, and the old Gentleman in Oldham, with all the celebrated ill Faces of Antiquity, as Furniture for the Club Room.
Sir, a breath blows all this triumph away. There is not the slightest difference in the purport of my remarks on the two occasions. What I said here on Wednesday is in exact accordance with the opinion expressed by me in the other house in 1825. Though the gentleman had the metaphysics of Hudibras, though he were able "to sever and divide A hair 'twixt north and northwest side,"
"That depends on what you consider good," answered the scout, panting. "I have just learned that a large body of King Hudibras' men about two hundred, I believe is on its way to the Swamp to search for his son Bladud " "What! the giant whom we have heard tell of who gave Gunrig such a drubbing?" "The same.
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