 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 418 Seiten
...it under Pindus' shades. Till falling back still, for retreat, He fell to juggle, cant, and cheat :6 For as those fowls that live in water Are never wet, he did but smatter ; 220 Whate'er he labour'd to appear, His understanding still was clear ; ^ Yet none a deeper knowledge... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 518 Seiten
...it under Pindus' shades. Till falling back still, for retreat, He fell to juggle, cant, and cheat :6 For as those fowls that live in water Are never wet, he did but smatter ; 220 Whate'er he labour'd to appear, His understanding still was clear; 7 Yet none a deeper knowledge... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 460 Seiten
...wet, he did but smatter ; 220 Whate'er he labour'd to appear, His understanding still was clear ; 7 Yet none a deeper knowledge boasted, Since old Hodge Bacon, and Bob Grosted.6 Th' intelligible world he knew,9 225 And all men dream on't to be true, That in this world... | |
 | 1837 - 516 Seiten
...erroneously attributed to Grostest by many writers: so Butler, describing Sidrophel, remarks that, None a deeper knowledge boasted, Since old Hodge Bacon and Bob Grosted. For further particulars concerning Grostest, I refer the reader to his life, by Pegge, published at... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 332 Seiten
...letho mala ; credula vitam Spes alit, et melius eras fore semper ait — TIBULLU& He fell to juggle, cant, and cheat .... For as those fowls that live in water Are never wet, he did but smatler ; Whate*er he labour'd to appear, His understanding still was clear. A paltry wretch he had,... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1845 - 472 Seiten
...means of the Devil, who, she verily believed, he was going to raise with her old master. CHAPTER V. Yet none a deeper knowledge boasted, Since old Hodge...Th' intelligible world he knew. And all men dream of, to be true. HUDIBRAS. BARNABAS speedily found his way to the closet of the astrologer, where everything... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1846 - 324 Seiten
...and cheat : For as those fowls that live in water Are never wet, he did but smatter : 220 Whate'cr he labour'd to appear, His understanding still was...Bacon and Bob Grosted. Th' intelligible world he knew, 225 And all men dream on't to be true ; That in this world there's not a wart That has not there a... | |
 | John George Phillimore - 1847 - 66 Seiten
...to forebode news. "He had been long towards mathematicks, Of ticks, philosophy, and staticks. "But, as those fowls that live in water Are never wet, he...he labour'd to appear, His understanding still was dear ; Yet none a deeper knowledge boasted, Since old Hodge Bacon, and Bob Grosted. "He knew whatsever's... | |
 | John George Phillimore - 1847 - 72 Seiten
...to forebode news. "He had been long towards mathematicks, Opticks, philosophy, and staticks. "But, as those fowls that live in water Are never wet, he...he labour'd to appear, His understanding still was dear ; Yet none a deeper knowledge boasted, Since old Hodge Bacon, and Bob Grosted. "He knew whats'ever... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 Seiten
...the arts Did he advance his nat'ral parts, Till falling back still, for retreat, He fell to juggle, cant, and cheat: For as those fowls that live in water Are never wet, he did but smatter ; Whate'er he labour 'd to appear, His understanding still was clear ; Yet none a deeper knowledge boasted, Since... | |
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To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again, And still he's in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was ; So in the circle of the arts, Did he advance his nat'ral parts, Till falling back still, for retreat, He... 
