 He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice ; As if Divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be...  Poetical Works - 50 페이지저자: Samuel Butler - 1861전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 페이지
...addicted in early time to scholastic divinity. This circumstance did not escape the wit of S. Butler, He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice, As it divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be scratch 'd, &c.' llaililnas, canto I. Poets. " Poela... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 페이지
...learned Sorbonist, And weave fine eobwebs, fit for seull That's empty when the moon is full ; Sueh w eould raise seruples dark and niee, And after solve 'em in a triee ; As if Divinity had eateh'd The... | |
 | 1829 - 460 페이지
...the night of sober reality. Forty years ago, my brain was as full of ' Cobwebs fit for scull Thai's empty when the moon is full, Such as take lodgings in a head That's to he let unfurnished,' as I make no doubt thine is now — but alas ! beaux jours sont passes !' My heart... | |
 | 1829 - 760 페이지
...puts us in mind of a certain knight who " A rope of sand could twist As tough as learned Sorbonist, And weave fine cobwebs, fit for skull That's empty when the moon is full." If our readers do not credit our testimony, and are disposed to waste their money and their time, they... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1829 - 346 페이지
...155 And real ways beyond them all ; For he a rope of sand could twist As tough as learned Sorbonist ; And weave fine cobwebs, fit for skull That's empty when the moon is full ; 160 Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished. He could raise scruples dark and... | |
 | 1831 - 426 페이지
...he a rope of sand could twist As tough as learned Sorbonist; And weave fine cobwebs, fit for scull That's empty when the moon is full : Such as take...And after solve 'em in a trice : As if divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to he scratch'd; Or, like a mountebank, did wound And stab herself with... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 페이지
...tough a rope of sand ;5 And weave fine cobwebs, fit for scull That's empty when the moon is full ;6 160 Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished....And after solve 'em in a trice ; As if Divinity had catch'd 165 The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd ; Or, like a mountebank, did wound And stab herself... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 456 페이지
...tough a rope of sand ; 5 And weave fine cobwebs, fit for scull That's empty when the moon is full;' 160 Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished....And after solve 'em in a trice ; As if Divinity had catch'd 165 The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd ; Or, like a mountebank, did wound And stab herself... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 페이지
...tough a rope of sand ; * weave fine cobwebs, fit for scull ^ /That's empty when the moon is full ;6 160 Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished. ~y He could raise scruples dark" and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice ; As if Divinity had catch'd... | |
 | Horatio Hastings Weld - 1836 - 268 페이지
...to-day 1" " I am mute." SO THE GENIUS. For he a rope of sand could twist As tough as learned Sorbonist, And weave fine cobwebs, fit for skull, That's empty...lodgings in a head, That's to be let unfurnished. DIDST ever in thy pilgrimage, encounter a GENIUS? I mean one of those deeply learned bipeds, who have... | |
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