...Alexander Ross over,1 And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting, and of love. 1 There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over,] Empedocles, a Pythagorean philosopher and poet, held, that friendship and discord were principles which...

...polished spirits. The revolution in literary tastes which took place between the age of Caxton and * Just so romances are, for what else Is in them all, but lov« and battles ? that of Ascham, was owing to three principal causes — the Reformation, the revival...

...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,...he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love."* From this landing-place, a stair-case leads to a wretched garret, which is dignified by the style of...

...Southampton, a voluminous writer, who is now perhaps most generally known from the lines of Butler : " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he cou'd prove, Was made of fighting and of love." Hudibras, part i., cant, ii., v. 1 — *. Munro marches...

...Southampton, a voluminous writer, who is now perhaps most generally known from the lines of Butler : " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he cou'd prove, Was made of fighting and of love." Hudibras, part i., cant, ii., v. 1—4. June 14. AD...

...Southampton, a voluminous writer, who is now perhaps most generally known from the lines of Butler : " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he cou'd prove, Was made of fighting and of love." Hudibras, part i., cant. ii., v. I — K June 14. AD...

...Ross, whose name is now better known in connexion with Hudibras, than from his voluminous works : — " There was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read Alexander Ross over." Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary contains a sketch of his history. He lived with the Henley family...

...Ross, whose name is now better known in connexion with Hudibras, than from his voluminous works : — " There was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read Alexander Ross over." Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary contains a sketch of his history. He lived with the Henley family...

...dead since." Only in poems of the same order do we find the trisyllabic rhyme, as in the conplet, " There was an ancient sage philosopher. That had read Alexander Ross over." As for rhymes of greater length, they have only been used in occasional jeux-d'espnt. An additional...

...Southampton, a voluminous writer, who is now perhaps most generally known from the lines of Butler : — ' There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he cou'd prove, Was made of fighting and of love.' HCDIBRAS, Tart I. Cant. ii. v. 1-4." [Gordon's Scots...