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" His tawny beard f was th' equal grace Both of his wisdom and his face; In cut and die so like a tile, A 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... "
Hudibras - Page 11
by Samuel Butler - 1861 - 498 pages
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Hudibras: In Three Parts

Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1750 - 486 pages
...face ; Jn cut and dye fo like a tile, A fudden view it wou'd beguile •. 4^.5 The upper part thereof was whey, The nether orange mix'd with grey. This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of fcepters and of crowns i With grifly type did reprefent * 250 Declining age of government ; And tell...
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Hudibras: In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Civil Wars. By Samuel ...

Samuel Butler - 1773 - 404 pages
...cut and die fo Jike a tile, A fuddeo view it would beguile : . The upper part thereof was whey, 245 The nether orange mix'd with grey. This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of fceptres and of crowns : With grifly type did reprefent Declining age of government ; 350 And tell...
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The Works of the English Poets: Butler

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 340 pages
...beard was th' equal grace .Both of his wifdom and his face; In cut and dye fo like a tile, A fudden view it would beguile; The upper part whereof was whey, The nether orange, mix'd with grey.. The hairy meteor did denounce The fall of fceptres and of crowns.; 'With grifly type did reprefent...
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The Works of the British Poets, Volume 5

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 738 pages
...beard was th' equal grace -" Both of his wifdom and his face ; In cut and die fo like a tile, A fudden view it would beguile ; The upper part •whereof...with grey. This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of fceptres and of crowns ; With grifly type did reprcfent Declining age of government, And tell, with...
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 33-34

John Bell - English poetry - 1797 - 722 pages
...outward: That next of all we shall discuss; Then listen, Sirs, it follows thus: 240 His tawny beard was th' equal grace Both of his wisdom and his face...; In cut and die so like a tile, A sudden view it weuld beguile ; The upper part whereof was whey, 24$ The nether orange, mix'd with grey. v. 33;, 236.]...
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Hudibras: In Three Parts, Volume 1

Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1801 - 530 pages
...feems to be plain : The Knight had In cut and die fo like a tile, A fudden view it would beguile: 345 The upper part whereof was whey; The nether orange...with grey. This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of fcepters and of crowns: With grifly type did reprefent 250 Declining age of government; And tell with...
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 600 pages
...an account of which Butler has transmitted to posterity in the following lines : ' His tawny beard was th" equal grace Both of his wisdom and his face ; In cut and dye so like a tile, A sudden view it would beguile : The upper part thereof was whey, The nether orange...
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The poetical works of Samuel Butler. With the life of the author, by dr ...

Samuel Butler - 1803 - 520 pages
...cut and die fo like a title, A ludden view it would beguile ; The upper part whereof was whey, 145 The nether orange, mix'd with grey. This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of feeptres and of erowns; With grifly type did reprefent Declining age of government, 150 And tell, with...
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1804 - 412 pages
...Hudibras, an account of which Butler has transmitted to posterity in the following lines: ' His tawny beard was th' equal grace Both of his wisdom and his face ; In cut and dye so like a tile, A sudd«n view it would beguile : The upper part thereof was whey, The nether orange...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures ..., Volume 18

1804 - 452 pages
...ode; since his bard precisely performs what the beard of Hudibras denounced. These are the verses; " this hairy meteor did denounce the fall of sceptres and of crowns." At first, this hardly seems a serious conjecture. But let us recollect, that the burlesque and the...
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