 | Samuel Butler - 1877 - 610 páginas
...stout : so Some hold the one, and some the other ; But, howsoe'er they make a pother, The difference was so small, his brain Outweigh'd his rage but half...for a tool That knaves do work with, call'da Fool. 1 'He rode a-colonelling:' the Knight (if Sir Samuel Luke was Mr Butler's hero) was not only a Colonel... | |
 | Charles Underwood Dasent - 1877 - 238 páginas
...think." — Hudibras. In the following passage we have both which and that : — " His brain Outweighed his rage but half a grain, Which made some take him for a tool, That knaves do work with, called a fool." — Ibid. And, again, — " Why, Harry, do I tell thee of my foes, Which art my nearest... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 páginas
...the other : But howsoe'er they make a pothex,. . The difference was so small, his brain Outweighed his rage but half a grain ; Which made some take him for a tool That knaves do work with, called a fool. For't has been held by many, that As Montaigne, playing with his cat, Complains she... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 páginas
...some the other : But howso'er they make a pother, The dift'reuce was so small, his brain Outweighed his rage but half a grain ; Which made some take him for a tool For rlu'.toric, he could not ope His mouth but out there flew a trope; And when he happened to break... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1881 - 276 páginas
...they make a pother, The difference was so small, his brain Outweighed his rage but half a grain ; 35 Which made some take him for a tool That knaves do work with, called a fool ; For 't has been held by many, that As Montaigne, playing with his cat, , Complains... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1881 - 270 páginas
...they make a pother, The difference was so small, his brain Outweighed his rage but half a grain; 35 Which made some take him for a tool That knaves do work with, called a fool; For 't has been held by many, that As Montaigne, playing with his cat, Complains she... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1885 - 300 páginas
...some the other ; But howsoe'er they make a pother, [The difference was so small, his brain VOutweighed his rage but half a grain ; Which made some take him for a tool That knaves do work with, called a fool : For 't has been held by many, that As Montaigne, playing with his cat, Complains she... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 516 páginas
...wise or stout. Some hold the one, and some the other; But howsoe'er they make a pother, The difference was so small, his brain Outweigh'd his rage but half...for a tool That knaves do work with, call'da Fool ; And ofler'd to lay wagers, that As Montaigne, playing with his cat, Complains she thought him but... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 492 páginas
...were more wise, or stout. Some hold the one, and some the other; But howsoe'er they make a pother, The diff'rence was so small, his brain Outweigh'd...for a tool That knaves do work with, call'da Fool; And offer'd to lay wagers that As Montaigne, playing with his cat, Complains she thought him but an... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 544 páginas
...some the other ; But howsoe'er they make a pother, The difference was so small, his brain Outweigh 'd his rage but half a grain ; Which made some take him...for a tool That knaves do work with, call'da Fool ; And offer'd to lay wagers, that As Montaigne, playing with his cat, Complains she thought him but... | |
| |
And styl'd of war, as well as peace. (So some rats, of amphibious nature, Are either for the land or water) : But here our authors make a doubt, Whether he were more wise or stout... 
