The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler, 2권

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Little, Brown, and Company, 1857

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8 페이지 - Their duty never was defeated, Nor from their oaths and faith retreated : For loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.
305 페이지 - LOVE is too great a happiness For wretched mortals to possess; For could it hold inviolate Against those cruelties of fate, Which all felicities below By rigid laws are subject to, It would become a bliss too high, For perishing mortality, Translate to earth the joys above; For nothing goes to heaven but love.
310 페이지 - When princes idly lead about, Those of their party follow suit, Till others trump upon their play, And turn the cards another way. What makes all subjects discontent Against a prince's government, And princes take as great offence At subjects...
37 페이지 - s as good as if w' had done 't, And easie.r pass'd upon account : VOL. n. D For if it be but half deny'd, Tis half as good as justify 'd, The world is nat'rally averse To all the truth it sees or hears, But swallows nonsense, and a lie, With greediness and gluttony...
131 페이지 - Her real estate and personal ; And make an accurate survey Of all her lands, and how they lay, As true as that of Ireland, where The sly surveyors stole a shire : 10 T' observe her country, how 'twas planted, With what sh...
136 페이지 - Far greater beasts, too, than the Earth (As by the best accounts appears Of all our great'st discoverers), And, that those monstrous creatures there Are not such rarities as here. ieo Meanwhile the rest had had a sight Of all particulars o...
18 페이지 - And turn'd to th' outward man the inward; More proper for the cloudy night Of Popery than Gospel-light : Others were for abolishing That tool of matrimony, a Ring, With which th' unsanctify'd bridegroom Js marry'd only to a thumb (As wise as ringing of a pig, That us'd to break up ground and dig), The bride to nothing but her will, That nulls the after-marriage still: Some were for th...
83 페이지 - This stratagem, t' amuse our foes, 240 To make an hon'rable retreat, And wave a total sure defeat : For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's slain.
22 페이지 - O' th' compass in their bones and joints, Can by their pangs and aches find All turns and changes of the wind. And better than by Napier's bones Feel in their own the age of moons...
148 페이지 - Hold no truth worthy to be known, That is not huge and overgrown, And explicate appearances, Not as they are, but as they please, In vain strive nature to suborn, And...

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