The nether orange mix'd with grey. This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of sceptres and of crowns: With grisly type did represent Declining age of government; 250 And tell with hieroglyphic spade, Its own grave and the state's were made. Hudibras - Page 37by Samuel Butler - 1819 - 294 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Bell - English poetry - 1797 - 722 pages
...Parliament had subdued the King; hence it became necessary to have it fully described. Caeti 5. MCDIRRAS. 35 This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of sceptres...hieroglyphic spade, Its own grave and the State's were made : I.ike Samson's heart.breakers, it grew In time to make a nation rue; Tho'it contributed its own fall,... | |
| 1804 - 452 pages
...ode; since his bard precisely performs what the beard of Hudibras denounced. These are the verses; " this hairy meteor did denounce the fall of sceptres and of crowns." At first, this hardly seems a serious conjecture. But let us recollect, that the burlesque and the... | |
| Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 pages
...snbdned trre King ; hence it became neressary to have IT fnlly described. This Lairy meteor did denonnce The fall of sceptres and of crowns; With grisly type did represent Declining age of government, And tell, with hieroglyphic spade, Its own grave and the State's were made : Like Sampson's heart-breakers,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...sudden view it would beguile ; The upper part whereof was whey, The nether orange, mix'd with grey. Caligula, when on the throne, Soundless in power,...himself a god ; 4s if the world depended on his nod. ; And tell, with hieroglyphic spade, Its own grave and the state's were made : Like Samson's heart-breakers,... | |
| James Plumptre - Songs, English - 1811 - 486 pages
...ii. 1. 1. Whatever sceptic could inquire for, I'orcv'ry why he had a wherefore, CAN ro i. I. 131. • This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of sceptres and of crowns. Do. I. 217. Tho' it contributed ils own fall, To wait upon the public downfal. Do. 1. 255. If any yet... | |
| Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...sudden view it would beguile: The upper part thereof was whey, J15 The nether orange mix'd with grey. This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of sceptres...grisly type did represent Declining age of government ; J50 And tell widi hieroglyphic spade, Its own grave and the state's were made. Like Samson's heart-breakers,... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1816 - 304 pages
...view it would beguile : The upper part thereof was whey, 24,5 The nether orange mix 'd with grey. ' This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of sceptres...hieroglyphic spade, Its own grave and the state's were made. His back, or rather burden, show'd, 287 AS if it stoop' d with its own load. For as ./Eneas bore his... | |
| England - 1831 - 1008 pages
...the British Pindar was more indebted to Hudibras in that passage than to Milton or Raphael either. This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of sceptres and of crowns. With Rrisly type did represent Declining ace of government, And tell wiui hieroglyphic spade lu own grave... | |
| Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 560 pages
...sudden view it would beguile: The upper part thereof was whey, 245 The nether orange mix'd with grey. This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of sceptres...spade, Its own grave and the state's were made. Like Samson's heart-breakers, it grew In time to make a nation rue; Though it contributed its own fall,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1819 - 368 pages
...sudden view it would beguile : The upper part thereof was whey, The nether orange mixed with grey. This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of sceptres...grisly type did represent Declining age of government ; And tell with hieroglyphic spade Its own grave and the state's were made." ****** " This sword a... | |
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