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" Here lies old Hobson. Death hath broke his girt, And here, alas! hath laid him in the dirt; Or else, the ways being foul, twenty to one He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown. 'Twas such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when... "
The Dublin University Magazine - Page 244
1853
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...HERE lies old Hobson ; Death hath broke his girt, And here alas, hath laid him in the dirt, Or else the ways being foul, twenty to one, He's here stuck...And surely Death could never have prevail'd, Had not his weekly course of carriage fail'd ; -• But lately finding him so long at home, And'thinking now...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Volume 6

John Milton - 1826 - 476 pages
...HERE lies old Hobson; Death hath broke his girt, And here, alas ! hath laid him in the dirt; Or else the ways being foul, twenty to one, He's here stuck...overthrown. 'Twas such a shifter, that, if truth were known, 5 Death was half glad when he had got him down ; For he had, any time this ten years full, Dodg'd with...
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Tim Bobbin's Lancashire Dialect and Poems

Tim Bobbin - Dialect literature, English - 1828 - 216 pages
...slouch with heavy eyes. More's Life of the Lord. Slough, a deep dirty place, skin of an adder, &c. The ways being foul, twenty to one, He's here stuck in a slough and overthrown. — Milton. Sneap, to check, to reprimand. My lord, I will not undergoe this sneap without reply. Shakespeare....
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Church-yard gleanings and epigrammatic scraps, a collection of epitaphs and ...

William Pulleyn - 1829 - 302 pages
...lies old Hobson, — Death has broke his girt, And here, alas ! hath laid him in the dirt, Or else, the ways being foul, twenty to one, He's here stuck...And surely Death could never have prevail'd, Had not his weekly course of carriage fail'd ; But, lately finding him so long at home, And thinking now his...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...Here lies old Hobson; death hath broke his girt, And here alas! hath laid him in the dirt; Or else the ways being foul, twenty to one, He's here stuck...was half glad when he had got him down; For he had many time this ten years full Dodg'd with him, betwixt Cambridge and the Bull. And surely, death could...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 3

Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...Here lies old Hobson; death hath broke his girt, And here alas! hath laid him in the dirt; Or else the ways being foul, twenty to one, He's here stuck...such a shifter, that, if truth were known, Death was hall glad when he had got him down; For he had many time this ten years full Dodg'd with him, betwixt...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 20

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 798 pages
...Compelled me to awake the courteous echo, To give me answer from her mossy couch. Hilton. I was such л shifter, that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down. Now shift your sails. Drydens JEncii. Blow to lesolve, but in performance quick ; So true, that he...
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The Cambridge guide, or A description of the university and town of Cambridge

Cambridge (England) - 1830 - 350 pages
...Here lies old Hobson ; Death hath broke his girt, And here, alas ! hath laid him in the dirt ; Or else the ways being foul, twenty to one, He's here stuck...him down; For he had, any time this ten years full, Dodged with him betwixt Cambridge ami The Bull. And surely Death could never have prevail'd, Had not...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...HERE lies old Hobson ; Death hath broke his girt, And here, alas, hath laid him in the dirt ; Or else the ways being foul, twenty to one, He's here stuck...overthrown. Twas such a shifter, that if truth were known, 5 Death was half glad when he had got him down ; For he had any time this ten years full, 15 sepulcher'd]...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...one, He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown. 'Twas such a shifter, that if truth were known, 5 Death was half glad when he had got him down ; For...And surely Death could never have prevail'd, Had not his weekly course of carriage fail'd ; . 10 15 sepulchred] So accented in Shakesp. Rape of Lucrece....
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