 OF a tall stature, and of sable hue, Much like the son of Kish, that lofty Jew, Twelve years complete he suffered in exile, And kept his father's asses all the while...  Discourses on Government - Page 63by Algernon Sidney - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 pages
...license in them ; none of the jokes in prose are as good as the opening of An Historical Poem :— " Of a tall stature, and of sable hue, Much like the son of Kish, that lofty Jew, Twelve years complete he suffered in exile, And kept his father's asses all the while." The Proclamation of " Bayes... | |
 | Sir Henry Machu Imbert-Terry (bart.) - Great Britain - 1917 - 420 pages
...we hear been cut off." 1 Many references are made by contemporary writers to Charles's height. " Of tall stature and of sable hue, Much like the son of Kish, that Jolty Jew," is Andrew Marvell's description of his King, while the picture is even more sharply delineated... | |
 | Andrew Marvell - Authors, English - 1927 - 372 pages
...Impatient heir : Hard fate of princes, who will nere believe, An Historicall Poem. [AUTHOR UNKNOWN.] Of a tall Stature and of sable hue, Much like the Son of Kish that lofty Jew, Twelve Yeares compleat he suffer'd in Exile And kept his Fathers Asses all the while. At length by wonderfull... | |
 | Norman Furlong - Satire, English - 1946 - 196 pages
...shattering 38 comment on Clarendon and the other royalists who followed the young King into exile : Of a tall Stature, and of sable hue, Much like the...suffer'd in Exile And kept his Father's Asses all the while.1 The wit and the audacity there are good enough for Marvell, or Rochester, or Dryden, but the... | |
 | Margarita Stocker - Apocalyptic literature - 1922 - 162 pages
...and Oldham, Vjf a scourge of social vice and of political ineptitude. He was to celebrate Charles II: Of a tall stature, and of sable hue, Much like the son of Kish, that lofty Jew, Twelve years complete he suffered in exile, And kept his father's asses all the while; At length, by wonderful impulse... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1921 - 600 pages
...snap ' of Pope in these opening lines, and never was subtler caricature drawn of Charles the Second : Of a tall stature, and of sable hue, Much like the son of Kish, that lofty Jew, Twelve years complete he suffered In exile, And kept his father's asses all the while; At length, by wonderful impulse... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 606 pages
...created Duchess of Portland, mother 220 he might be seen walking in the Lauderdale gardens as — ' Of a tall stature and of sable hue, Much like the son of Kish, that lofty grew ; ' and Nelly, as ' that wench of orange and oyster,' in allusion to her original calling ; for... | |
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