| John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 ページ
...other folk; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. RELIGION OF HUDIBRAS. He was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 ページ
...••-•" ,'//' Jay The clock does strike, by algebra. • • • » For his religion, it was fit1 To match his learning and his wit : Twas presbyterian...whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible... | |
| John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 578 ページ
...term ; their religion and their morality being marked by it as mean and contemptible. Thus Butler : For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit ; 'T was Presbyterian true blue. — Hudib. Canto I. That this epithet of derision should find its... | |
| John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 570 ページ
...term ; their religion and their morality being marked by it as mean and contemptible. Thus Butler : For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit ; 'T was Presbyterian true blue. — Hudlb. Canto I. That this epithet of derision should find its... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1861 - 248 ページ
...unriddle in a moment, In proper terms, such as men smatter When they throw out, and miss the matter. For his Religion, it was fit To match his learning...blue ; * For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints,t whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The... | |
| Katherine Thomson - 1862 - 328 ページ
...or as Duns Scotus — ' He could raise scruples, dark and nice, And after solve them in a trice.' ' For his religion, it was fit To match his learning...whom all men grant To be the true church militant.' Blue, be it remarked, has always been regarded as the emblematical colour of fidelity ; and was the... | |
| English poets - 1862 - 622 ページ
...three years later, and the third not till 1678. He died in London in 1680. RELIGION OF HUDIBRAS. FOB his religion, it was fit To match his learning and...whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 346 ページ
...or as Duns Scotus — ' He could raise scruples, dark and nice, And after solve them in a trice.' ' For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit ; 'Twos Presbyterian true blue ; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1864 - 426 ページ
...moment, In proper terms, such as men smatter When they throw out and miss the matter. For his religion,is it was fit To match his learning and his wit ; 'Twas...whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant ; u Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; M Decide all controversies by... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 ページ
...RESTORATION. 145. Samuel Butler. 1612-1680. (Manual, pp. 222-228.) From • Hudibras.' HUDIBEAS'S RELIGION. For his Religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit ; 'Tvvas Presbyterian, true blue ; For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men... | |
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