 Free-will they one way disavow, Another, nothing else allow : All piety consists therein In them, in other men all sin : Rather than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly; Quarrel with minc'd pies, and disparage Their best and dearest...  Hudibras - Page 46by Samuel Butler - 1850 - 498 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1797 - 722 pages
...fail, they will defy 233 That which they love most tenderly ; Quarrel with minc'd.pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum.porridge; Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard thro' the nose. 139 Th' apostles of this fierce religion, I.ike Mahomet's were ass and widgeon, To... | |
 | 1802 - 570 pages
...boarding-schools. We cannot admire those Medical Puritans, who M Quarrel with mincc-pyes, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge, Fat...itself oppose, And blaspheme Custard through the Nose f." We experience many surfeits on thin literary food ; and we imagine that the reader will soon depart... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - Satire, English - 1807 - 330 pages
...friend plumb porridgt; Fat pig und goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. • Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's were Ass and Widgeon; As if hypocrisie ami nonsense Had gotth' advowson of His conscience. Hath prov'd, on needle's point,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. Th' apostles of this fierce religion, lake ly linkt, As if hypocrisy and nonsense Had got th' advowson of his conscience. Thus was he gifted and... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...friend, plumb-porridge ; Fat pig and goose itoelf oppose, And blaspheme custard through (he nose. 530 Th* apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's,...Knight, by fast instinct Of wit and temper, was so linkt, As if hypochrisy and nonsense £35 Had got tli' advowson of his conscience. Thus was he gifted... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly : Quarvel with minc'd-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge, Fat...itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. The' apostles of this fierce religion; Like. Mahomet's, were ass and wigeon, To whom our Knight, by... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 560 pages
...most tenderly ; Quarrel with minc'd pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plumb-porridge; Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. 230 Th5 apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon ; To whom our Knight, by... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...most tenderly ; Quarrel with minc'd pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridje ; Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon, To whom our knight, by... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Great Britain - 1822 - 532 pages
...tenderly ; Quarrel with minc'd pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plumb-porridge ; Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard...Knight, by fast instinct Of wit and temper, was so linkt, As if hypocrisy and nonsense 235 Had got th' advowson of his conscience. > Thus was he gifted... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly ; Quarrel with minced pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge, Fat...itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. The' apostles of this fierce religion, lake Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon, To whom our Knight, by... | |
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