| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762 - 478 pages
...refer our reader : For brevity is very good, When w' are, or are not ucderftood. Hudibras, canto j. But Hudibras gave him a twitch, As quick as lightning,...part, more Hurts honour, than deep wounds before, Rid. canto 3. Ludicrous junction of fmall things with great, as of equal importance. This day black'... | |
| Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...Honour Jain, He that is beaten may be faid To lie in Honour's truckle-bed. Honour in the breech is lodg'd, As wife philofophers have judg'd, Becaufe...that part more Hurts Honour, than deep wounds before. HUDIBRAS. She too might have poifon'd the joys of my life, With nurfes, and babies, and fqualling,... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762 - 480 pages
...the breech, . t* Juft in the place where honour's lodgM, As wife philofophers have judg'd ; Becanfe a kick in that part, more Hurts honour, than deep wounds before. Ibid, canto 3. Ludicrous junction of fmall things with great, as of equal importance. This day black... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1765 - 534 pages
...refer our reader : For brevity is very good When w'are, or are not underftood. Hudibras, canto i. i But Hudibras gave him a twitch, As quick as lightning,...place where honour's lodg'd, As wife philofophers havejudg'd; Becaufe a kick in that part, more Hurts honour, than deep wounds before. Ibid, canto].... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1773 - 404 pages
...fea coal prong threw by, And bafely turn'd his back .to fly ; Eut Hudibras gave him a twitch io£3 As quick as light'ning in the breech ; Juft in the place where honour's lod^r'd, As wif; philofophcrs have judg'd, Becaufe a kick in that place, more Hurts honour, than deep... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1774 - 254 pages
...along. Whachum his fea-coal prong threw by. And bafely turn'd his back So fly : VOL. I. T 5 But HuJibras gave him a twitch As quick as lightning in the breech...; Juft in the place where honour's lodg'd, As wife philolbphers have judg'd, Kecaufe a kick, in that place, more Hurts honour, than deep wounds before.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 338 pages
...his fea-coal prong threw by, And bafely turn'd his back to fly ; But Hudtbras gavt him a twitch, 1065 As quick as lightning, in the breech, Juft in the place where honour 's lodg'd, As wife philosophers have judg'd, Becaufe a kick in that place more Hurts honour,... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...his fea-coal prong threw by, And bafely turn'd his back to fly; But Hudibras gave him a twitch, 1o65 As quick as lightning, in the breech, Juft in the place where honour 's lodg'd, As wife philofophers have judg'd, Becaufe a kick in that place more Hurts honour,... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 pages
...hirh on the earth along. Whachum his feacoal prong threw by, And bafcly turn'd his back to fly ; But Hudibras gave him a twitch. As quick as lightning, in the breech, Juft in the place where honour 's lodg'd, As wife philufophcrs have judg'd, Becaufe a kick in that place more Hurts honour... | |
| 1792 - 744 pages
...him on the earth along. Whachum his feacoal prong threw by, And bafely turn'd his back to fly ; But Hudibras gave him a twitch, As quick as lightning, in the breech, Jufl in the place where honour 's lodg'd, As wife philnfophers have judg'd, lîecaufe a kick in that... | |
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