 Freewill they one way disavow, Another, nothing else allow ; All piety consists therein In them, in other men all sin ; Rather than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly : Quarrel with minced pies, and disparage Their best and dearest...  The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 421802Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Butler - 1905 - 356 pages
...Sin. Rather than fail, they will defie That which they love most tenderly, Quarrel with minc'd Pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, Plum-porridge ; Fat Pig and Goose it self oppose, And blaspheme Custard through the Nose. Th' Apostles of this fierce Religion, Like... | |
 | Ernest Pertwee - English poetry - 1906 - 432 pages
...sin. Rather than fail they will defy That which they love most tenderly ; Quarrel with mince-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend plum-porridge...oppose, ' And blaspheme custard through the nose. TO THE LORD GENERAL CROMWELL (1599-1658) BY JOHN MILTON CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud... | |
 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...Quarrel.— Rather than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly, Quarrel with minced-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend — plum-porridge...itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose.' BUTLER, Hudibras, I, i, lines 225-230 Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, Bear't that the... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1902 - 476 pages
...sin ; Rather than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly; Quarrel with minced-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge...itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. The apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet, were ass and widgeon, To whom our knight, by fast... | |
 | Lionel Strachey - Wit and humor - 1906 - 326 pages
...sin. Rather than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly, Quarrel with minced-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend — plum-porridge;...itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon, To whom our knight, by... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...sin. Rather than fail they will defy 85 That which they love most tenderly, Quarrel with minced pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge;...itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. 90 1663. SIR GEORGE ETHERIDGE TO A LADY ASKING HOW LONG HE WOULD LOVE HER It is not, Celia, in our... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...sin. Rather than fail they will defy 85 That which they love most tenderly, Quarrel with minced pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge;...itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. 9o SIR GEORGE ETHERIDGE TO A LADY ASKING HOW LONG HE WOULD LOVE HER It is not, Celia, in our power... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1910 - 524 pages
...sin. Rather than fail they will defy That which they love most tenderly ; Quarrel with mince-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend plum-porridge...itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. 'NEW LIGHT.' Tis a dark lantern of the spirit, Which none see by but those that bear it ; A light that... | |
 | Charles William Previté-Orton - English poetry - 1910 - 264 pages
...sin: Rather than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly ; Quarrel with mince-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge;...itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon, To whom our Knight, by... | |
 | William Stebbing - English poetry - 1913 - 426 pages
...sin. Rather than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly ; Quarrel with minc'd pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge...pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard thro' the nose.4 Apart from the attractive rancour, the characters are portrayed with extraordinary... | |
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