 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 394 lapas
...in other men all sin: Rather than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly; Quarrel with minc'd-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest...oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. * The religion of the Presbyterians of those times contlsted principally in an opposition to the church of... | |
 | John Bell - 1797 - 722 lapas
...other men all sin: Bather than fail, they will defy 233 That which they love most tenderly ; Quarrel with minc'd.pies, and disparage Their best and dearest...pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard thro' the nose. 139 Th' apostles of this fierce religion, I.ike Mahomet's were ass and widgeon, To... | |
 | 1802 - 570 lapas
...oracle of boarding-schools. We cannot admire those Medical Puritans, who M Quarrel with mincc-pyes, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge,...itself oppose, And blaspheme Custard through the Nose f." We experience many surfeits on thin literary food ; and we imagine that the reader will soon depart... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1805 - 440 lapas
...Rather than fail, they will decry 2-5 That which they love most tenderly; Quarrel with miac'd-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge...pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard thro' the noae. 239 Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like MAROMET'S," were ass and widgton ; To... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 lapas
...and dearest friend, plnm-porridge ; Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme rnstat'd throngh the nose. The' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and wigeon, To whom onr Knight, by fast instinct Of wit and temper, was so linkt, As if hypocrisy and nonsense Had got... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 560 lapas
...most tenderly ; Quarrel with minc'd pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plumb-porridge; Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. 230 Th5 apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon ; To whom our Knight,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 lapas
...most tenderly ; Quarrel with minc'd pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridje ; 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 314 lapas
...Day. 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,...through the nose. The' apostles of this fierce religion, lake Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon, To whom our Knight, by fast instinct Of wit and temper, was so... | |
 | Launcelot Sturgeon - 1823 - 262 lapas
...peevish, cross, and splenetick, " Than dog distract, or monkey sick ; " Who quarrel with minc'd pies, arid disparage " Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge;...oppose, " And blaspheme custard through the nose!" HUDIDS.AS, Canto I. ESSAY XVIII. ON THE QUALIFICATIONS OF COOKS THE COMPARATIVE IMPORTANCE OF THE MILITARY... | |
 | 1827 - 604 lapas
...ia doubtless derived from the Puritan ancestors of New England, who would * Quarrel with mince-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend plum-porridge;...oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. ' The last-mentioned mode of disparagement may be said chiefly to arise from custard being too profane a... | |
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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... 
