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'Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter. - Hudibras (pt. II, canto III) [Truth] Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat. - Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 1) [Pleasure] As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honour's lodged, As wise philosophers have judged, Because a kick in that place more Hurts honour than deep wounds before. - Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 1,066) [Honor] He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no; That would, as soon as e'er she shone straight, Whether 'twere day or night demonstrate; Tell what her d'ameter to an inch is, And prove that she's not made of green cheese. - Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 261) [Moon] And fire a mine in China, here With sympathetic gunpower. - Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 295) [Electricity] He knew whats'ever 's to be known, But much more than he knew would own. - Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 297) [Knowledge] Each window like a pill'ry appears, With heads thrust through nail'd by the ears. - Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 391) [Curiosity] Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose, Sir Knight, that I am one of those, I might suspect, and take th' alarm, You bus'ness is but to inform; But if it be, 'tis ne'er the near, You have a wrong sow by the ear. - Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 575) [Suspicion] You have a wrong sow by the ear. - Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 580) [Swine] The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, Did cause their clergy, with lustrations . . . . The round-fac'd prodigy t' avert, From doing town or country hurt. - Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 709) [Owls] To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd. - Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 923) [Folly : Proverbial Phrases] There's but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war. - Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 957) [War] What mad lover ever dy'd, To gain a soft and gentle bride? Or for a lady tender-hearted, In purling streams or hemp departed? - Hudibras (pt. III, canto I) [Love] 'Tis true no lover has that pow'r T' enforce a desperate amour, As he that has two strings t' his bow, And burns for love and money too. - Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 1) [Prudence] What makes all doctrines plain and clear?-- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again? Two hundred more. - Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 1,277) [Doctrine] 'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin; And therefore no true saint allows, They shall be suffer'd to espouse. - Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 1,293) [Matrimony] Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick (Though he gave his name to our Old Nick). - Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 1,313) [Devil] With crosses, relics, crucifixes, Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes; The tools of working out salvation By mere mechanic operation. - Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 1,495) [Symbols] Which he by hook or crook has gather'd And by his own inventions father'd. - Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 109) [Proverbs] Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing. - Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 17) [Stars] And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security. - Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 203) [Soul] As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't. - Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 481) [Perception] Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling. - Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 687) [Money] For discords make the sweetest airs. - Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 919) [Music] After he had administer'd a dose Of snuff mundungus to his nose; And powder'd th' inside of his skull, Instead of th' outward jobbernol, He shook it with a scornful look On th' adversary, and thus he spoke. - Hudibras (pt. III, canto II, l. 1,005) [Tobacco] Displaying page 6 of 8 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7 8
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