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... resolv'd and bold , We should , as learned poets use , Invoke th ' assistance of some muse ; However critics count it sillier Than jugglers talking too familiar . We think ' tis no great matter which ; They're all alike ; yet we shall ...
... resolv'd and bold , We should , as learned poets use , Invoke th ' assistance of some muse ; However critics count it sillier Than jugglers talking too familiar . We think ' tis no great matter which ; They're all alike ; yet we shall ...
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... Resolv'd to see the bus'ness done ; And therefore charg'd him first to bind Crowdero's hands on rump behind , And to its former place and use . The wooden member to reduce ; But force it take an oath before , Ne'er to bear arms against ...
... Resolv'd to see the bus'ness done ; And therefore charg'd him first to bind Crowdero's hands on rump behind , And to its former place and use . The wooden member to reduce ; But force it take an oath before , Ne'er to bear arms against ...
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... resolv'd , rather than yield , To die with honour in the field , And sell his hide and carcase at A price as high and desperate 40 45 50 55 60 As e'er he could . This resolution He forthwith put in execution , 65 And bravely threw ...
... resolv'd , rather than yield , To die with honour in the field , And sell his hide and carcase at A price as high and desperate 40 45 50 55 60 As e'er he could . This resolution He forthwith put in execution , 65 And bravely threw ...
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... resolv'd to wave his suit , And either to renounce her quite , 365 Or for a while play least in sight . This resolution b'ing put on , He kept some months , and more had done ; But being brought so nigh by fate , 371 The victory he ...
... resolv'd to wave his suit , And either to renounce her quite , 365 Or for a while play least in sight . This resolution b'ing put on , He kept some months , and more had done ; But being brought so nigh by fate , 371 The victory he ...
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... resolv'd , in comely sort They now drew up t'attack the fort ; When Hudibras , about to enter Upon another - gate's adventure , To Ralpho call'd aloud to arm , Not dreaming of approaching storm . And thus he spoke : The coward foe ...
... resolv'd , in comely sort They now drew up t'attack the fort ; When Hudibras , about to enter Upon another - gate's adventure , To Ralpho call'd aloud to arm , Not dreaming of approaching storm . And thus he spoke : The coward foe ...
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Page 80 - Get thee to a nunnery; Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in. imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.
Page 154 - Dost thou come here to whine? To outface me with leaping in her grave? Be buried quick with her, and so will I : And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions of acres on us, till our ground, Singeing his pate against the burning zone, Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth, I'll rant as well as thou.
Page 85 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 78 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 9 - And then it started, like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and at his warning. Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation.
Page 183 - Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all ? Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty : Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
Page 164 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all.
Page 84 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 220 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem...
Page 255 - If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely ; touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks ! No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall...