 Mischief and true dishonour fall on those Who would to laughter or to scorn expose So virtuous and so noble a design, So human for its use, for knowledge so divine. The things which these proud men despise, and call Impertinent, and vain, and small, Those...  Hudibras - Page 25by Samuel Butler - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Abraham Cowley - English literature - 1806 - 294 pages
...smallest hand, And well begun her deepest sense to understand ! Mischief and true dishonour fall on those Who would to laughter or to scorn expose So...call Impertinent, and vain, and small, Those smallest tilings of nature let me know, Rather than all their greatest actions do ! Whoever would deposed Truth... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English poetry - 1809 - 296 pages
...smallest hand, And well begun her deepest sense to understand ! Mischief and true dishonour fall on those Who would to laughter or to scorn expose So...me know, Rather than all their greatest actions do 'Whoever would deposed Truth advance Into the throne usurp'd from it, Must feel at first the blows... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pages
...smallest hand, And well begun her deepest sense to understand ! Mischief and true dishonour fall on those Who would to laughter or to scorn expose So...me know, Rather than all their greatest actions do ! Whoever would deposed Truth advance Into the throne usurp'd from it, Must feel at first the blows... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...!mimfor its use» for knowledge so divine. nethinjt, Which these proud men despispjand call ""pertinent, and vain, and small, Those smallest things of Nature...me know, Rather than all their greatest actions do ! Whoever would deposed Truth advance Into (he throne usurp'd from it, Mustfeel at first the blows... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...satire of Butler in his eye when be wrote the following lines : " Mischief and true dishonour fall on those Who would to laughter or to scorn expose So...let me know, Rather than all their greatest actions doe. Whoever would deposed truth advance Into the throne usurp'd from it, Must feel at first the blows... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...smallest hand, And well begun her deepest sense to understand ! Mischief and true dishonour fall on those Who would to laughter or to scorn expose So...me know, Rather than all their greatest actions do ! Whoever would deposed Truth advance Into the throne usurp'd from it, Must feel at first the blows... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...smallest hand, And well begun her deepest sense to understand. Mischief and true dishonour fall on olour'd through our passions shown. Or fancy's beam...observation stay, It hurries all too fast to mark the way : Whoever would deposed truth advance Into the throne usurp'd from it, Must feel at first the blows of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...sense to understand. Misehief and true dishonour fall on those \VTio would to laughter or to seorn resign. Then Iphigene is yours, Cassandra mine. Vour rival Pasimond whieh these proud men despise, and eall Impertinent, and vain, and small, Those smallest things of... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 518 pages
...present every one must be inclined to adopt the sentiment of Cowley : Mischief and true dishonour fall on those Who would to laughter or to scorn expose So...greatest actions do ! The learned and ingenious bishop Kurd delivers his opinion on this passage in two lines from Pope : But sense surviv'd when merry jests... | |
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