 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 páginas
...have heard the Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick ; CANTO I. 11. and There was an ancient sage philosopher Who had read Alexander Ross over, PART I. CANTO II. T. more frequently quoted, than the finest pieces of wit iii the whole poem. NO.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1824 - 278 páginas
...I am sure I have heard the Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a slick — and 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. No. 61. THURSDAY, MAY... | |
 | Samuel Oliver (jun.) - 1825 - 418 páginas
...examples of triple rhyme in Hudibrastick herbick verse, of its ordinary measure, namely, ten syllables : There was an ancient, sage philosopher Who had read Alexander Ross over. The former of these verses is terminated by a Pyrrhick : its other feet are Iambick ; the latter is... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 páginas
...were now in safety. Our merry and satirical Bard has well described these mock-heroic histories— 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. Just so romances are, for... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 páginas
...were now in safety. Our merry and satirical Hard has well described these 'mock-heroic histories — There was an ancient sage philosopher, Who had read Alexander Ross over, And swure the world, as he could prove, Was made of fia;hiing and of love. Just so romances are, for... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1838 - 388 páginas
...will probably be preserved longer in the following lines of Butler's Hudibras than by his own works : There was an ancient sage philosopher, Who had read Alexander Ross over. If the following list of his works be correct, as I have reason to think it is, a perusal of them was... | |
 | 1839 - 420 páginas
...such need that, in 1657, the Magistrates of Aberdeen gave him £20, " to put his son to a trade." " 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."* From this landing-place,... | |
 | Camden Society (Great Britain) - 1849 - 156 páginas
...vintner, died. 18. Rich. Meredith, attorn. Wood Street, died. * Butler records his name in Hudihras, " There was an ancient sage Philosopher Who had read Alexander Ross over/* 19. Mr. Simonds, the printer, died. 17. Mr. Scattergood, vintner at the Miter, Cheapside, died. June... | |
 | 1849 - 160 páginas
...vintner, died. 18. Rich. Meredith, attorn. Wood Street, died. * Butler records his name in Hudibras, " There was an ancient sage Philosopher Who had read Alexander Ross over." 19. Mr. Simonds, the printer, died. 17. Mr. Scattergood, vintner at the Miter, Cheapside, died. June... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 páginas
...am sure 1 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. wit in the whole poem ADDISON.... | |
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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,... 
