 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 Seiten
...become, after a time, like the repetitions of a mimic, tiresome and stale." DESCRIPTION OF HUDIBRAS. When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why ; l The following, on the character of the Puritans, la taken from an article on Milton In the 42d... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 Seiten
...false, unforgiven— And lose my everlasting rest. SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-80) THE PURITAN KNIGHT ERRANT WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high And men fell out...jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For dame Religion as for punk ; Whose honesty they all durst... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 952 Seiten
...faithful and obedient Servant, JONAS DRYASDUST. Michaelmas Day, 1822, YORK. PEVERIL OF THE PEAK CHAPTER I When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When foul words, jealousies, and fears Set folk together by the ears. BcTtEI. WILLIAM, the Conqueror of... | |
 | Voltaire - 1924 - 342 Seiten
...que condense Voltaire, pour qu'on se rende compte de sa méthode de traduction. When civil fury 6rsl grew high And men fell out they knew not why, When...Words, Jealousies and Fears Set folks together by thé cars, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion as for Punk, Whose honesty they... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 Seiten
...his own: Th' adventure of the bear and fiddle Is sung, but breaks off in the middle. WHEN civil fury And made them fight, like mad or drunk, 5 For Dame Religion as for punk; Whose honesty they all durst... | |
 | Manx Society - 1877 - 172 Seiten
...the baneful effects of such a scourge, when, as the author of Hudibras truly remarked :— " . . . . civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why ;" and that there should not have been found some in the Island so dissatisfied as to be ready to join... | |
 | Norman Furlong - 1946 - 196 Seiten
...subjected in the opening lines of Hudibras to this levelling and diminishing process : When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why;...jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk — We know at once where we... | |
 | Ulrich Broich - 1990 - 252 Seiten
...recalling the opening verses, which were so often echoed by later works in the genre: When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why,...Jealousies, and Fears, Set Folks together by the Ears, And made them fight like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion as for Punk, Whose honesty they all durst... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...my lad. (1. 1-4) OxBoLi Burns POETRY QUOTATIONS SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680) Hudibras \ When civil fury owl, howl! O, you are men of stones! Had I your tongues...them so That heaven's vault should crack. She's gon And made them fight, like mad or drunk. For Dame Religion, as for punk; 2 For rhetoric, he could not... | |
 | Thomas Gustafson - 1992 - 500 Seiten
...Butler similarly begins his extremely popular poem Hudibras (1663) with the lines "When civil fury first grew high, / And men fell out they knew not why; / When hard words, Jealousies and Fears I Set Folks together by the ears . . ."2i Clarendon writes in The History of the Rebellion that terms... | |
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WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears... 
