 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...  The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 421802Full view - About this book
 | 1852 - 526 pages
...Puritan ancestors, who, according to Hudibras, used on the " Sabbath" to Quarrel with minc'd pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend— plum-porridge; Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme ciistard through the nose.* Nor can it with absolute veracity be asserted that they invariably possess... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...RLESSING. RLINDNESS. They would defy That which they love most tenderly; Quarrel with minced pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge;...pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard thro' their nose. Butler. BLESSING. THE quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1854 - 292 pages
...sin : 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...pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard thro' the nose. 230 Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass 2 and widgeon,3... | |
 | Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 296 pages
...: Rather than fail, they will defy \ That which they love most tenderly ; Quarrel with miuced-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge...pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard thro' the nose. 280 Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass 2 and widgeon,8... | |
 | English literature - 1855 - 604 pages
...sin. Rather than fail they will defy That which they love most tenderly ; Quarrel with minced-pies, @ a?N 3 2 v { * A/ 69 \i f )B a - >$O4 Ζ4 w. ...7 |k a LEe = R;k H BZ [ XG ڕT2ZL 2=. This passage alone would settle the fate of the book with every Courtier or Royalist that might chance... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1856 - 602 pages
...sin. 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...itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose." This passage alone would settle the fate of the book with every Courtier or Royalist that might chance... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 pages
...Rather than fail, they will defy 225 That which they love most tenderly; Quarrel with minc'd-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge...itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. 230 V. 207. The religion of the Presbyterians of those times consisted principally in an opposition... | |
 | American essays - 1864 - 816 pages
...was continually shaking out war. He was of the race sung by the bard, who " Quarrel with mince-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge,...goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through tbe nose." Every chance-comer was instantaneously gauged as dyspeptic or eupeptic, friend or foe. On... | |
 | Francis Edward Paget - Pastoral theology - 1858 - 366 pages
...spite. Rather than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly, Quarrel with minc'd pie, and disparage Their best and dearest friend plum-porridge,...itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose." PABSON. Exactly. And so, as they might have anticipated, if they had had common sense, mince-pie, and... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...most tenderly ; Quarrel with mine' d pies and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum porridge ; 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... | |
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