 | 1866 - 390 sayfa
...soldiers mutin'ing for pay. Are there not myriads of this sort 70S Which stories of all times report ? Is it not ominous in all countries When crows and...senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, 710 Did cause their clergy, with lustrations (Our Synod calls Humiliations), The round-fac'd prodigy... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 544 sayfa
...soldiers mutin'ing for pay. Are there not myriads of this sort, Which stories of all times report ? Is it not ominous in all countries, When crows and...senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, 710 Did cause their clergy, with lustrations, (Our Synod calls Humiliations) The round-fac'd prodigy... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1869 - 168 sayfa
...soldiers mutiny'ng for pay, Are there not myriads of this sort, Which stories of all times report ? Is it not ominous in all countries, When crows and...was seen, Did cause their clergy, with lustrations, (Our synod calls humiliations) The round-fac'd prodigy t'avert From doing town or country hurt ? And... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1873 - 712 sayfa
...also an adage referring to the raven superstition—" Nae gude comes o' shoot in' black craws." And ' Is it not ominous in all countries When crows and ravens croak upon trees ?"— HudiTmw, Part II., canto iu. t The reader who is interested in the matter, will find the whole... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1875 - 560 sayfa
...as old as the fifth century ; and Butler banters the ancient Romans for their believing it : — " The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl...was seen, Did cause their clergy with lustrations, Our Synod calls humiliations, The round-fac'd prodigy to avert, From doing town or country hurt." 1... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1877 - 610 sayfa
...soldiers mutiuy'ng for pay. Are there not myriads of this sort, Which stories of all times report ? Is it not ominous in all countries, When crows and...senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen. 710 Did cause their Clergy, with Lustrations (Our Synod calls Humiliations) The round-faced prodigy... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams, Hector Giacomelli - 1878 - 472 sayfa
...die. " And in ' Hudibras" Butler has a lively reference to the superstitions of the Romans : — " The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl...was seen, Did cause their clergy with lustrations (Our synod calls humiliations) The round-faced prodigy t' avert From doing town and country hurt. "... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1878 - 344 sayfa
...lustration, because one of them strayed into the capital. Thus Butler, in his ' Hudibras,' tells us, — "The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl...was seen, Did cause their clergy with lustrations (Our synod calls humiliations) The round-fac'd prodigy t'avert From doing town and country hurt." *... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1883 - 422 sayfa
...ominous in all countries, When crows and ravens croak upon trees i The Roman senate, when within 7io The city walls an owl was seen, Did cause their clergy, with lustrations, Our Synod calls humiliations, The round-faced prodigy t' avert From doing town or country hurt. ,715... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 sayfa
...the old tree hollow, Is carried away in я gust of wind! a. EB BROWNING— Isabel's Chad. St. 1!). - ***»»* The round-l'ac'd prodigy t' avert, From doing town or country hurt. b. BUTLER — lludibras.... | |
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Which stories of all times report ? Is it not ominous in all countries, When crows and ravens croak upon trees? The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, 710 Did cause their clergy, with lustrations, (Our Synod calls Humiliations)... 
