 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
 | Peter Miller Cunningham - New South Wales - 1827 - 404 pages
...from the Puritan ancestors of New England, who would "Quarrel with mince-pies, and disparage Tbeir best and dearest friend plum-porridge ; Fat pig, and...itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose." The last-mentioned mode of disparagement may be said chiefly to arise from custard being too profane... | |
 | 1827 - 624 pages
...who would — ' Quarrel with mince-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend plum- porridge ; Fat pig, and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose.' " Vol. ii. pp. S3— 61. If the corruptions of modern times had not destroyed the religions feelings... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 814 pages
...Dramny. Rather than fail they will decry 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. Hudibrat. Nor watchful dogs, nor the more wakeful geese, Disturb with nightly noise the sacred peace.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1829 - 346 pages
...Rather than fail, they will decry 225 That which they love most tenderly ; Quarrel with miiic'd pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge...pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard thro' the nose. 230 Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon ; To... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 pages
...Rather than fail, they will defy 225 That which they love most tenderly ; Quarrel with minc'd pies,4 and disparage Their best and dearest friend — plum-porridge...itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. 230 Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon,6 3 All piety consists... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 340 pages
...Rather than fail, they will defy su That which they love most tenderly ; Quarrel with minc'd-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge...itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. sm Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon, 507 The religion of... | |
 | 1837 - 524 pages
...That which they love most tenderly ; r' 1837.] New Ethics of Eating. 337 Quarrel with minc'd pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge...itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose." Here, in the lines just quoted, is an exact portrait of a modern lecturer on Dietetics, sketched by... | |
 | 1856 - 1432 pages
...sip. Rather than fail, they will defyThat which they love most tenderly; Quarrel with minccd-pics, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge;...goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the noso." This passage alone would settle the fate of the book with every Courtier or Royalist that might... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...most tenderly ; Quarrel with minced-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-pbrridge . e all bound. Titles and honours (if they prove his fate) He lays aside t Th' apostles of this fierce religion. Like Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon, To whom our Knight, by... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...most tenderly ; Quarrel with minc'd pics, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porrU^c ; ve at that! Hang sorrow 1 care will kill a cat, Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon, To whom our knight, by... | |
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