 When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore: When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded...  Littell's Living Age - Page 31856Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 pages
...Gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded ; And pulpit, drum-ecclesiastic. Was beat with fist instead of a stick ; Then did Sir...Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling. A wight he was, whose very sight would Entitle him Mirror of Knighthood, That never bow'd his stubborn... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 pages
...these doggerel rhymes, than of the parts that really deserve admiration. I am sure 1 have heard the and 'Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick;' ' There was an ancient sage philosopher Who had read Alexander Ross over,' more frequently quoted,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1854 - 292 pages
...swear for, r Tho' not a man of them knew wherefore ; When Gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded ; And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,...Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling.1 A wight he was whose very sight would Entitle him Mirror of Knighthood,2 That never... | |
 | Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 296 pages
...swear for, 7 Tho' not a man of them knew wherefore ; When Gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded ; And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,...Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling.1 A wight he was whose very sight would Entitle him Mirror of Knighthood,2 That never... | |
 | 1855 - 604 pages
...surrounded With long-eared rout, to battle Bounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fiat, - H QnUBmg | Cٍ m Ĺ *ɠ } b, :*X colouelling." This was certainly a promising set out, and would tempt the reader to go on. And if he... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1856 - 602 pages
...swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore ; When gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With lonç-eared rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,...description of Sir Hudibras and his qualifications, nоw known to every school-boy, would then come upon the reader with all the freshness of its native... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1856 - 502 pages
...gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum-ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick. Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling." His staff upon this occasion was composed of a few laymen, of local distinction, but... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pages
...jealousies, and fears. Set folks together by the ears, When gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-eared rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,...Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling. CHARACTER OF HUDIBRAS. A wight he was, whose very sight would Entitle him, mirror of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...jealousies, and fears Set folks together by the ears ; When gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear 'd rout, to battle sounded ; And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick;1 Then did Sir Knight2 abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling. A wight he was, whose... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 pages
...surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded ; 10 And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fistT instead of a stick; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling. A wight he was, whose very sight would is Entitle him Mirror of Knighthood, That never... | |
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