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" 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 42
1802
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Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay ...

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 386 pages
...most tenderly ; Quarrel with minc'dpies and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum porridgf Fat pig and goose 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 fast...
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...most tenderly ; Quarrel with mine' d pies and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum porridge ; Fat pig and goose 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...
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Wit and Humor

Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 290 pages
...most tenderly ; Quarrel with mine' d pies and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum porridge ; Fat pig and goose 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...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...sin ; Rather than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly ; Quarrel with minc'd pies, iss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain....and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon, To whom our knight, by...
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Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Elegant Extracts ..., Volume 1

Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...have. SHAKSPEARE. 5. They would defy That which they love most tenderly ; Quarrel with minced pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge...pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard thro' their nose. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 6. He bore A paunch of mighty bulk before, Which still he had...
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Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Elegant Extracts ..., Volume 1

Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...have. SHAKSPEARE. 5. They would defy That which they love most tenderly ; Quarrel with minced pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge...pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard thro' their nose. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 6. He bore A paunch of mighty bulk before, Which still he had...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...love most tenderly ; Quarrel with miuc'd pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-pomd, soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart through comfortless Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were a.-s and widgeon, To whom our knight, by...
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Hudibras

Samuel Butler - 1850 - 528 pages
...capable of performing any good action. IT "A sort of inquisition was set up, against the food which 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,* To whom our knight,...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 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;...itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet, were ass and widgeon, To whom our knight, by fast...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 94

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1852 - 516 pages
...Puritan ancestors, who, according to Hudibras, used on the " Sabbath" to Quarrel with minc'd pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend — plum-porridge;...itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose.* Nor can it with absolute veracity be asserted that they invariably possess that "excellent thing in...
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