...course, that Alexander Ross whom Butler refers to in Hudibras. But though we have Butler's assurance that "There was an ancient, sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over," I confess I got through no more than sample passages of the poems to his name in these volumes. The...

...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. 14. (Gordon's Scots...

...born In Scotland about 1590, and died In 1654. Butler, In I/utlibras. Immortalises him thus :— " There was an ancient, sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over." AD 1624.—Mr. Tho" Wareham was chosen. The same year Edw. Reynolds, Esq r ", left £20 for the benefit...

...contemporary Episcopal minister at Aberdeen, and is best remembered by the couplet in ' Hudibras ' : There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over. Ross was a theologian and historian as well as a philosopher, and he may well have aroused the animosity...

...golden chain, This pendant world, in bigness as a star. 5870 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 1051 _, There was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read...he could prove, Was made of fighting- and of love. 5871 Butler: Iltidibras. Pt. i. Canto ii. Line i Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend; The...

...without were impatient at the delay. CHAPTER XVI MARBOSA'S HUNTING LODGE — THE There was an ancient philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over And...he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love. — Butler: Hudibras, Part I. " MARBOSA ! MARBOSA ! " shouted several voices at once. A score of young...

...him, in the lines : " There *.»-. an ancient si^c philosopher 1'tial had read Alexander Ross ovei. And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love." So Butler, at the opening of " Hudibras," spoke of the times "when civic fury first grew high :" "...

...ber 5Dlenfфen", S. 314. l70 „There was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read Alexander Ross1) over, And swore, the world as he could prove Was made...fighting and of love, Just so romances are, for what else Is in them all but love and battles?" 9hm finben roir aber in bem SBalten ber ftampf= triebe einen...

...considerable noise and figure in his time. He is the author to whom Butler alludes in his Hudibras : " There was an ancient sage philosopher. That had read Alexander Ross over." His Arcana Microcosmi contains many singular and quaint stories. 1201 Rowzee (Lodwick). The Queens...

...considerable amount of verse. He is now remembered best by Butler's couplet (Hudibras, pt. i. canto ii.) : There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over. In the preface to the ' History of the World,' Ross said that, from his youth up, he had been ' more...