 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...words. It is true, in some places his wit is independent of his words, as in that of the rebel Scot: Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom ; Not forced him wander, but confined him home. * Si sic omnia dixisset ! This is wit in all languages : it is like mercury, never... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1821 - 442 pages
...words. It is true, in some places his wit is independent of his words, as in that of the rebel Scot : Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom; Not forced him wander, but confined him home.* Si sic omnia dixisset! This is wit in all languages : it is like mercury, never... | |
 | English literature - 1915 - 632 pages
...country, and the presence of Scots in London was much resented. Cleveland thought it witty to write : ' Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom ; Not forced him wander, but confined him home.' And we all remember Dr Johnson's gibes. British patriotic arrogance culminated... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - English literature - 1836 - 488 pages
...words. It is true, in some places his wit is independent of his words, as in that of the rebel Scot : Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom: Not forced turn wander, but confined him home.* Si sic omnia diaiisset ! This is wit in all languages ; it is... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...Two lines of this truculent party tirade present a conceit at which our countrymen may now smile — r) /Ð j[ p( @ P! 9 A J - ?"K I j~ 0A ԉ Ѐ;o z4 C } č confined him home. In 1655, the poet was seized at Jforwich, and put in prison, being ' a person of... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...turned proselyte. A land where one may pray with cursed intent, O may they never suffer banishment ! Had Cain been, Scot, God would have changed his doom, — Not forced him wander, but confined him home. Like Jews they spread, and as infection fly, As if the Devil had ubiquity. Hence... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...Two lines of this truculent party tirade present a conceit at which our countrymen may now smile — ich, perchance, ye hut confined him home. In 1655, the poet was seized at Norwich, and put in prison, being 'a person... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...Two lines of this truculent party tirade present a conceit at which our countrymen may now smile — & confined him home. In 1655, the poet was seized at Norwich, and put in prison, being ' a person of... | |
 | James Hannay - Satire - 1854 - 292 pages
...half their land. A land where one may pray with just intent, Oh, may they never suffer banishment ! Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom, Not forced him wander, but confined him home." When the Newark garrison, in which he held the office of Judge- Advocate, yielded,... | |
 | James Hannay - Satire - 1854 - 316 pages
...half then: land. A land where one may pray with just intent, Oh, may they never suffer banishment 1 Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom, Not forced him wander, but confined him home." When the Newark garrison, in which he held the office of Judge-Advocate, yielded,... | |
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Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom ; Not forced him wander, but confined him home. 
