THERE was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love. Just so Romances are, for what else Is in them all but love and battles ? O' th' first of these w' have... Hudibras - Seite 28von Robert Deverell - 1816Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Samuel Butler - 1850 - 528 Seiten
...v. 383; Icetid. v. 362; Phfflnis. v. 1139. HUDIBRAS. CANTO II. THERE was an ancient sage philosophei That had read Alexander Ross over,* And swore the...fighting, and of love. Just so romances are, for what else Is in them all but love and battles ?t * Empedocles, a Pythagorean philosopher and poet, held, that... | |
| 1853 - 888 Seiten
...well as in the churchman of the old school. Butler says, in his Hudibras, canto ii, line 1, that — " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over," and if George Fox was not that sage philosopher, he seems to have been as hard a reader ; and had read... | |
| Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 296 Seiten
...Religions in the World from the Creation to his own Time.' And swore the world, as he could prove, a Was made of fighting and of love. Just so romances are, for what else Is in them all but love and battles ? 0' th' first of these we have no great matter To treat of, but... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1854 - 292 Seiten
...Religions in the World from the Creation to his own Time.' And swore the world, as he could prove, t 3 Was made of fighting and of love. Just so romances are, for what else Is in them all but love and battles \ 0' th' first of these we have no great matter To treat of, but... | |
| Michael Rafter - 1855 - 362 Seiten
...RAF TEE, AUTHOK OF "THE GUARDS," " OUU INDIAN ABMY," &C. ' There was an ancient sage philosopher. Who had read Alexander Ross over ; And swore the world,...could prove, Was made of fighting and of love."— HUDIBKAS. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS, SUCCESSORS TO HENRY COLBURN,... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 Seiten
...short-liv'd pleasures pass like fleeting dreams. Roeheeter's Yakntiniee. There was an aneient ssge philosopher, That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world as he eould prove, Was made of fighting and of love. Butler's Hudibras Should onee the world resolve t' abolish... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1856 - 522 Seiten
...v. 383; Icetid. v. 362: Phoenis. v. 1130 HUDIBRAS. CANTO II. THERE was an ancient sage philosophic That had read Alexander Ross over,* And swore the...for what else 5 Is in them all but love and battles ?t * Empedocles, a Pythagorean philosopher and poet, held, that friendship and discord were principles... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1856 - 624 Seiten
...And short-liv'd pleasures pass like fleeiing dreams. Roehetter's l'nli nt<aiun. There was an aneient sage philosopher, That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world as he eould prove, Was made of fighting and of love. Butler's Hudibras Should onee the world resolve t' abolish... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 Seiten
...fight : H' encounters Talgol, routs the Bear, And takes the Fiddler prisoner, Conveys him to enchanted castle, There shuts him fast in wooden Bastile. THERE...fighting and of love. Just so Romances are, for what else « Is in them all but love and battles ? O' th' first of tljese w' have no great matter To treat of,... | |
| William Thomas Lowndes - 1864 - 352 Seiten
...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.' Rerum Judaicarum memorabilium Librl tres (Carmen). Lond. 1617-19. 12mo. Gordonstoun, 1937, 9s. Heber,... | |
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