| Francis Meehan - 1928 - 764 oldal
...change hands, and still confute. For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice ; As if divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd. Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 oldal
...That's empty when the moon is full; 160 Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfumished, He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice, As if divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd; Or, like a mountebank, did wound And stab herself with... | |
| W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 oldal
...skull That's empty when the moon is full; Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished. He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice: As if divinity had catch'd The itch, of purpose to be scratch'd ; Or, like a mountebank, did wound And stab her self with... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1684 - 352 oldal
...That's empty when the Moon is full ; Such as take Lodgings in a Head That's to be lett unfurnished. He could raise Scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice : As if Divinity had catch'd The Itch, of purpose to be scratch'd; Or, like a Mountebank, did wound And stab her self with... | |
| 1846 - 670 oldal
...are so far negatived as to make the possession of the reasoning faculties cease to be advantageous. " He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice." SIR, — It is impossible to embody into one letter all the strength of an argument. or to meet every... | |
| 1912 - 632 oldal
...than I should make fun of the gentler sex. Good Wheat and A Few Tares He could raise scruples dark aud nice. And after solve 'em in a trice; As if divinity had catch'd The itch on purpose to be scratch'd.— Butler Our correspondence column contains a communication... | |
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