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He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice; As if Divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd. - ' Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 163) [Ability] For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit; 'Twas Presbyterian true blue; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery; And prove their doctrine orthodox, By Apostolic blows and knocks. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 189) [Doctrine] And still be doing, never done. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 204) [Work] As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 205) [Religion] The self-same thing they will abhor One way, and long another for. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 219) [Abhorrence] We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it, As being loth to wear it out, And therefore bore it not about; Unless on holy days or so, As men their best apparel do. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 45) [Wit] For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 463) [Poetry] He ne'er consider'd it as loth To look a gift-horse in the mouth, And very wisely would lay forth No more upon it than 'twas worth; But as he got it freely, so He spent it frank and freely too: For saints themselves will sometimes be, Of gifts that cost them nothing, free. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 489) [Gifts] Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more difficile That to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 51) [Linguists] Deep sighted in intelligence, Ideas, atoms, influences. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 533) [Knowledge] And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 647) [Authorship] He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 65) [Criticism] For brevity is very good, Where we are, or are not understood. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 669) [Speech] He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse. He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a Lord may be an owl, A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice, And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 71) [Argument] For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 81) [Oratory] Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 821) [Lying] Smell a rat. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 821) [Proverbs] Shear swine, all cry and no wool. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 852) [Swine] For now the field is not far off Where we must give the world a proof Of deeds, not words. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 867) [Deeds] Success, the mark no mortal wit, Or surest hand, can always hit: For whatsoe'er we perpetrate, We do but row, we're steer'd by Fate, Which in success oft disinherits, For spurious causes, noblest merits. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 879) [Fate] A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 93) [Linguists] Learn'd he was in medic'nal lore, For by his side a pouch he wore, Replete with strange hermetic powder That wounds nine miles point-blank would solder. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto II, l. 223) [Medicine] Through perils both of wind and limb, Through thick and thin she follow'd him. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto II, l. 369) [Constancy] The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto II, l. 537) [Reform] Videlicit, That each man swore to do his best To damn and perjure all the rest. - Hudibras (pt. I, canto II, l. 630) [Resolution] Displaying page 4 of 8 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8
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