 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 394 pages
...lies In odd perverse antipathies; In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss; More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract,...sick: That with more care keep holyday The wrong, f than others the right way; Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Satire - 1744 - 570 pages
...content the Catholicks, but that She never could learn what ijaould content the Puritans. f. 213, 214. That with more care keep Holy-day, — The wrong, than others the right 'way.'] They were Ki remarkably obftinate in this refpefl, that they kept a Faft upon Chriftmas-day : (fee... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1750 - 488 pages
...findmg fomewhat ftill amifs ; More peevim, crofs, and fplenetick, Than dog diftraft, or monkey fick. That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than others the right way i 415 Compound for fins they are inclin'd to, By damning thofe they have no mind to. Still fo perverfe... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1753 - 466 pages
...finding fomewhat ftill amifs : More peevifh, crofs, and fplenetic, Than dog diftracT:, or monkey fick. That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than others the right way : 215 Compound for fins they are inclin'd to, By damning thofe they have no mind to. Still fo perverfe... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1757 - 496 pages
...fpmewhat ftill amifs : More peevifh, crofs, and fplenetick, Than Dog diftraA, or Monkey fick. Thait with more care keep Holy-day The wrong, than others the right way : :*•. 210. And 'finding fomeiahatftill amij I, .] Mr. Butler defcribes them to the fame purpofe,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 350 pages
...finding fumewhat ftill amifs; no More peevifh, crofs, and fplenetick, Than dog diftraft, or monkey fick ; That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than others the right way.; Compound for fins they are inclin'd to, z15 By damning thofe they have no mind to i Still fo perverfe and oppofite,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...ufe, as the eating Chriftmas-pies and plum-porridge at Chriftmas, which tliej; reputed finful. That* That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than others the right way; Compound for fins they are inclin'd to, - J , By damning thofe they have no mind to: Still fo perverfe and .oppofite,... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1797 - 722 pages
...Reformation, Which always must becarry'd on, 'And still be doing, never done; As if Religion were intended 205 For nothing else but to be mended; A sect whose chief...somewhat still amiss; 210 More peevish, cross, and splenetie, Than dog distract, or monkey sick ; Holdenby : for when his Majesty asked him for a sight... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1805 - 440 pages
...Which always must be carry'd on, And still be doing, never done : As if Religion were intended 205 Jpr nothing else but to be mended. A sect whose chief...amiss : •. .' • ;210 More peevish, cross, and splenetick, Than dog distract, or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than others... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 pages
...mnst be carried on, And still be doing, never done ; As if Religion were intended For nothing else bnt to be mended : A sect ''"' whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies ; In railing ont with that or this, And linding somewhat still amiss ; More peevish, cross, and splenetic,... | |
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A sect whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies, In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss ; More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick... 
