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" To sum up this long rigmarole, I have, dear B , what you no doubt perceive, for the metaphysical poets, as poets, the most sovereign contempt. That they have followers proves nothing — No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to... "
Hudibras: In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Civil Wars. By Samuel ... - Seite 138
von Samuel Butler - 1773 - 382 Seiten
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 Seiten
...which there are most rents in. Th' extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same. No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. — Wholesale critics, that in coffeeHouses cry down all philosophy. — Antichristian...
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Littell's Living Age, Band 12

1847 - 650 Seiten
...there are most rents in." " Th' extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same. No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows." " — Wholesale critics, that in coffeeHauses cry down all philosophy." " — Antichristian...
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Notes and Queries

1852 - 672 Seiten
...little fear."— .Buffer. " Th' extremes of glory and of shame. Like east and west become the same: No Indian prince has to his palace More followers, than a thief to the gallows." Butler. " For as extremes are short of ill or good. And tides at highest mark regorge...
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The Mental and Moral Philosophy of Laughter: A Vista of the Ludicrous Side ...

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 206 Seiten
...believes his own." So Butler, " Th' extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west become the same ; No Indian prince has to his palace, More followers than a thief to the gallows," And again, the same writer, " The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride,...
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Elements of Criticism

Lord Henry Home Kames - 1855 - 498 Seiten
...mock imitations of them in Butler. He makes you laugh or smile, by comparing the high to the low : No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. Or, by pretending to raise the low to the lofty : . And in his nose, like Indian king,...
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The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, Band 4

Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1856 - 454 Seiten
...metaphysical poets, as poets, the most sovereign contempt. That they have followers proves nothing — No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. MAGAZINE-WHITING.— PETER SNOOK. IN a late number of the Democratic Review, there appeared...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Band 106

1856 - 522 Seiten
...revolutions, in mirthful meditation fancy free. Now we bave ютe euch grotesque couplet as — Кo Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows ; and now some such noble image as in the famous Hues, For loyalty is still the same, Whether...
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Modern English Literature: Its Blemishes and Defects

Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - 362 Seiten
...Sutler. Serrick. Sutler. " Th' extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west become the same; No Indian prince has to his palace More followers, than a thief to the gallows." Sutler. " For as extremes are short of ill or good, And tides at highest mark regorge...
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Works ...

Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 Seiten
...which there are most rentt in Th' extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same. No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. — Wholesale critics, that in coffceHouses cry down all philosophy. — Antichristian...
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Sayings and Doings of the General Meeting, Band 3

1859 - 616 Seiten
...estimate that religion, or that philosophy, by the mere number of its adherents : — unluckily, So Indian Prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. VIIL " If in any point," says Lord Bacon, " I have receded from what is commonly received,...
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