 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 páginas
...am sure I have heard the " Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick ; " " There was an ancient sage philosopher, Who had read Alexander Ross over," quoted, than the finest pieces of wit in the whole Ksoi. C. - i. ^ No 61. THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1711. Non... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 618 páginas
...admiration. I am sure I have beard the Pulpit, drum ecelesiastic, Was bent with fist instead of a stick ; There was an ancient sage philosopher, Who had read Alexander Ross over; more frequently quoted, than the finest pieces of wit in the whole poem. C. No. 61. THURSDAY, MAY 10.... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - 1855 - 368 páginas
...writer, but remembered less for Ыч numerous works, than for a celebrated couplet in Hudibras : — " There was an ancient sage philosopher, Who had read Alexander Ross over." He was born in Aberdeen in the year 1 590 ; but his parentage las not been ascertained, nor have the circumstances... | |
 | Michael Rafter - 1855 - 362 páginas
... OK, THE YOUNG RIFLEMAN. BY CAPTAIN RAF TEE, AUTHOK OF "THE GUARDS," " OUU INDIAN ABMY," &C. ' There was an ancient sage philosopher. Who had read Alexander Ross over ; And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love."— HUDIBKAS. IN THREE... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 622 páginas
...admiration. I am sure I have heard the Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fiat instead of a stick ; There was an ancient sage philosopher, Who had read Alexander Ross over; more frequently quoted, than the finest pieces of wit in the whole poem. C. , No. 61. THURSDAY, MAY... | |
 | Thomas Smibert - 1856 - 154 páginas
...which gives the sound required. The Treble Rhyme is only found in such pieces. Butler says : — " There was an ancient sage philosopher, Who had read Alexander Ross over." But, as the treble rhyme occurs but three or four times even in " Hudibras," it need not be dilated... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 472 páginas
...sure I have heard the and ' Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick ;' ' There was an ancient sage philosopher, Who had read Alexander Ross over ;' more frequently quoted than the finest pieces of wit in the whole poem. C, No. 61.] Thursday, May... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 páginas
...admiration. I am sure I have heard the Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick ; There was an ancient sage philosopher, Who had read Alexander Ross over; more frequently quoted, than the finest pieces of wit in the whole poem. C. No. 61. THURSDAY, MAY 10.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1872 - 654 páginas
...of All the Religions of the World. It is to this learned work that reference is made In Hndlbras : "There was an ancient sage philosopher, Who had read Alexander Ross over." One of hi« most noted work« wae a Latin poem on the life of Christ, called Vlrjrlllui Evangelizans,... | |
 | 1874 - 618 páginas
...genius and only rescued from oblivion by his name forming a tag to one of Butler's triple rhymes : — ' There was an ancient sage philosopher, Who had read Alexander Ross over.' — Hudibras. * His father was chaplain to Bishop Morley, of Winchester, by whom he was appointed Rector... | |
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... to recommend it. I am afraid that great numbers of those who admire the incomparable Hudibras, do it more on account of these doggerel rhymes than of the parts that really deserve admiration. I am sure I have heard the ' Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,... 
