 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 - 1886 - 304 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 these w' have no great matter To treat of, but... | |
 | William Walker - 1887 - 726 Seiten
...it is not so generally known that the philosopher who had performed this extraordinary feat, and who Swore the world as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love, was Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, a quaint old pedant, who translated Rabelais, wrote on trigonometry,... | |
 | William Walker - 1887 - 698 Seiten
...it is not so generally known that the philosopher who had perfonned this extraordinary feat, and who Swore the world as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love, was Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, a quaint old pedant, who translated Rabelais, wrote on trigonometry,... | |
 | 1889 - 642 Seiten
...(Smith's Oratio, p. 27). This voluminous writer is immortalised in the couplet of Hudibras : — " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over ". Some account of his life, and of his upwards of thirty works, will be found in Chambers' Scottish... | |
 | Piscatorial Society - 1890 - 154 Seiten
...the lyrist — the great source of his inspiration. The author of ' Hudibras ' has told us how — ' There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read...he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love.' Lawsuits in the present day are, it would seem, made out of much the same material ; and in a case... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1890 - 364 Seiten
...to disperse. HEROES OF ROMANCE. There was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read Alexander Moss over, ' And swore the world, as he could prove. Was...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 no great matter To treat of, but... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1890 - 1142 Seiten
...whimsically cited him, ii the lines : *' There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Rots over. 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 :" "... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1892 - 1126 Seiten
...Religions that Butler whimucally cited him, in the lines : *.D. ro6j.J SAMUEL BUTLER. HUD1BRAS. 67$ " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over. And swoie the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love.*1 So Butler, at the opening of... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1893 - 396 Seiten
...enchanted castle. There shuts him fast in ivooden Bastile. rTTHERE was an ancient sage philosopher JL That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world,...fighting and of love. Just so Romances are, for what else Is in them all but love and battles ? 0' th' first of these w' have no great matter To treat of, but... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1895 - 944 Seiten
...believed that the two most freely used lines of Hudibras were the first two lines of Part I, Canto 2 : " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over." Alexander Ross was a very voluminous writer, and chaplain to Charles I. Part I, Canto 3, commences... | |
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