 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1807 - 548 pages
...refer our reader : For brevity is very good When w" are, or are not underftood. Hudihras, Canto i. But Hudibras gave him a twitch, As quick as lightning,...part, more Hurts honour, than deep wounds before. Ihid. Canto 3. Ludicrous junction of fmall things with great, as of equal importance : This day black... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - 1807 - 330 pages
...ignoble idea: What! Just in the place where honour's lodg'd, As wise philosophers have judg'd; Because a kick in that part more Hurts honour, than deep wounds before. ZA On siege how noble to be doting, And lie in trenches till quite floating;* Or trudge 'mid dust,... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - 1807 - 356 pages
...ignoble idea: What ! Just in the place where honour's lodg'd, As wise philosophers have judg'd; Because a kick in that part more Hurts honour, than deep wounds before. On siege how noble to be doting, And lie in trenches till quite floating*; Or trudge 'mid dust, and... | |
 | William Greenfield, Edward Mangin - 1809 - 394 pages
...purpose in the following verses, winch describe the ignominious chastisement inflicted on Whackum: Hudibras gave him a twitch, As quick as lightning, in the breech; Just in the place where honour's lodg'd, As wise philosophers have judg'd ; Because a kick in that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 650 pages
...him on the earth along. Whachum his sea-coal prong threw by, And basely turn'd his back to fly ; But Hudibras gave him a twitch, As quick as lightning, in the breech, Just in the place where Honour 's lodg'd, As wise philosophers have judg'd, Because a kick in that... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...without it. IBID. DUELS. Honour in the breech is lodg'd, As wise philosophers have judg'd ; Because a kick in that part, more Hurts honour than deep wounds before. HuDlBRAS. SUCH combats have been very ancient, and perhaps more ancient than any other kind of fight.... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 428 pages
...in the breech, Just in the place where honour's lodg'd, As wise philosophers have judg'd ; , Because a kick in that part, more Hurts honour, than deep wounds before. Ibid. Canto ui. Ludicrous junction of small things with great, as of equal importance : This day black... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 500 pages
...reader : For brevity is very good When w' are, or are not understood. « '• : Hudibras, Canto I. But Hudibras gave him a twitch, As quick as light'ning in the breech, Just in the place where honour's lodg'd, As wise philosophers have judg'd ; .• . . .•<:' Because... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 424 pages
...here, We unto them refer our reader : For brevity is very good When we are, or are not understood. But Hudibras gave him a twitch, As quick as lightning, in the breech, Hudibras, Canto i. Just in the place where honour's lodg'd, As wise philosophers have judg'd ; Because... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 402 pages
...the place where Just in the place where honour's lodg'd, As wise philosophers have judg'd, Because a kick in that part more Hurts honour, than deep wounds before. 1070 Quoth Hudibras, — The stars determine You are my prisoners, base vermin : Could they not tell... | |
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But Hudibras gave him a twitch, As quick as lightning, in the breech, Just in the place where honour's lodg'd, As wise philosophers Have judg'd, Because a kick in that place more Hurts honour, than deep wounds before. 
