 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
 | Questions and answers - 1852 - 782 pages
...borrowed his description of the hair and beard of his bard from the memorable description of Hudibras : " This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of sceptres and of crowns," &c. Part i. cant. i. 247. Butler used the same comparison again in the Cobler and Vicar of Bray, to... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1852 - 650 pages
...borrowed his description of the hair and beard of his bard from the memorable description of Hudibras : " This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of sceptres and of crowns," &c. Part i. cant. i. 247. Butler used the same comparison again in the Cobler and Vicar of Bray, to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...denounce 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 Like Samson's heart-breakers, it grew In time to make a nation rue ; »вон 1649 fOCTS. BAM DEL BUTUB.... | |
 | Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 296 pages
...sudden view it would beguile : The upper part whereof was whej, The nether orange, mix'd with gray. This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of sceptres...spade, Its own grave and the State's were made : Like Samson's heart-breakers,1 it grew In time to make a nation rue ; Tho' it contributed its own fall,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1854 - 292 pages
...sudden view it would beguile : The upper part -whereof was whey, The nether orange, mix'd with gray. This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of sceptres...spade, Its own grave and the State's were made : Like Samson's heart-breakers,1 it grew In time to make a nation rue ; Tho' it contributed its own fall,... | |
 | English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...nad) unten Otangmgclb mil ®tau Bctbunben. * ., * The hairy meteor did denounce The fall of scepters 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 Samson's heart-breakers,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 pages
...the Parliament had subdued the King; hence it became necessary to have it fully described. HUDIBKAS. 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,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1858 - 478 pages
...Ode—since his Sard precisely performs what the beard of Hudibras denounced. These are the verses:— " This HAIRY METEOR did denounce The fall of sceptres and of crowns." Had. o. 1. I have been asked if I am serious in my conjecture that " the meteor beard" of Hudibras... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...sudden view it would beguile : The upper part whereof was whey, The nether orange, mix'd 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. 1 " For dame Religion,... | |
 | Literature - 1861 - 502 pages
...denounce The fall of scepters and of crowns ; With grisly type did represent Declinins age of government, And tell with hieroglyphic spade Its own grave and the State's were made. It was oanonic and did grow In holy orders 'by strict vow ; Of ride as sullen and severe As that of... | |
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