 | Samuel Butler - 1744 - 570 pagina’s
...Worlliipful on Shoulder-blade: Chief of Domeftick Knights, and Errant, Either for Chartel, or for Warrant : Great on the Bench, Great in the Saddle, That cou'd as well bind o'er, as fwaddle : 25 Mighty he was at both of thefe, And ftyl'd of War as well as Peace. (So fome Rats of amphibious... | |
 | John Bell - 1797 - 722 pagina’s
...well bind o'er as swaddle ; Mighty he was at both of these, $5 And sty I'd of War, as well as Peace : (So some rats, of amphibious nature, Are either for the land or water) But here our Authors make a doubt Whether he were more wise or stout : 5o Some hold the one, and come... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 462 pagina’s
...II. Canto 2. Sect. I. Of wit. Mighty he was at both of these, And sty I'd of war, as well as peace : So some rats of amphibious nature, Are either for the land or water f. In this coarse kind of drollery, those laughable translations or paraphrares of heroic and other... | |
 | George Campbell - 1808 - 468 pagina’s
...as well bind o'er as swaddle, Mighty he was at both of these, And styl'd of <war, as well as peace i So some rats of amphibious nature, Are either for the land or ivater 'f. In this coarse kind of drollery, those laughable translations or paraphrases of heroic and... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 pagina’s
...well bind o'er as swaddle; Mighty he was at both of these, 33 And styl'd of war, as well as peace* (So some rats, of amphibious nature, Are either for the land or water.) But hwe our authors make a doubt, "Whether he were more wise or stout. 30 Some hold the one, and some... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1812 - 294 pagina’s
...Wliere, Wakefield f thanks in Prison Fox for bread, While Power rains Mitres on some Thurlow's + head ; * "So some Rats of Amphibious nature, Are either for the Land or Water." f A Subscription of between four and five thousand Pounds wasraised for Gilbert Wakefield, while a... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1816 - 304 pagina’s
...well bind o'er as swaddle: Mighty he was at both of these, 35 And styl'd of war, as well as peace. (So some rats of amphibious nature, Are either for the land or water.) But here our authors make a doubt, Whether he were more wise or stout. 30 Some hold the one, and some... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 390 pagina’s
...time, (see Sir William Segar's Mighty he was at both of these, 25 And styl'd of war as well as peace. (So some rats of amphibious nature, Are either for the land or water.) book, intitled, Of Honour Civil and Military, lib. 2. chap. 2. p. 74.) is as follows : " He that is... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 416 pagina’s
...as well bind o'er as swaddk': Mighty he was at both of these, And styl'd of war as well as peaee : (So some rats, of amphibious nature. Are either for the land or water) ' Allnding tn their vehement Ketion in the pulpit, and their beat' ing it with their fists, as if they... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 314 pagina’s
...as well bind o'er as swaddle ; Mighty he was at both of these, And styled of war as well as peace ; (So some rats, of amphibious nature, Are either for the land or water) 4 Alluding to their vehement action in the pulpit, and their beating it with their fists, as if they... | |
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Right Worshipful on shoulder-blade; Chief of domestic knights and errant, Either for chartel or for warrant; Great on the bench, great in the saddle... 
