 | 1916 - 852 ページ
...epoch. What the Bïrrlesquer said of the Puritans neatly expresses the contempt felt by his namesake. A sect whose chief devotion lies In odd, perverse...More peevish, cross, and splenetic Than dog distract or monkey sick: That with more care keep holyday The wrong, than others the right way; Compound for... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1894 - 684 ページ
...MAGAZINE. AUGUST 1894. A FATAL RESERVATION. BY R. 0. PROWSE, AUTHOR OF 'THE POISON OF ASPS.' CHAPTER IV. A sect whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies...with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss. 4 ' THERE is very little in the paper,' said Waveney at breakfast one morning, a few days after he... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 ページ
...on, And still be doing, never done; As if religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended, A sect whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies:...with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss; 210 More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick. That with more care keep... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 ページ
...on, And still be doing, never done: As if religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended. A sect, whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse...peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick. That with more care keep Holy-day The wrong, than others the right way: Compound for... | |
 | John Farrell - 2006 - 372 ページ
...Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended. A Sect, whose chief Devotion lies In odde perverse Antipathies; In falling out with that or...finding somewhat still amiss: More peevish, cross, and spleenatick Then Dog distract, or Monky sick: That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, then others... | |
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A sect, whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies ; In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss ; More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract or monkey sick... 
