 | John Trotter Brockett - 1829 - 368 pages
...wear oak leaves in their hats, and also to place them on their horses' beads. Formerly, in Newcastle, When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why, — Hudibra*. the boys had a taunting rhyme, with which they used to insult such persons as were not... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...Part such as appertain To civil justice ; part religious rites Of sacrifice. Milton. Parodue Loit. When civil dudgeon first grew high. And men fell out they knew not why. Butler. Break not your promise, unless it be unl.iwful or impossible ; either out of your natural or... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 pages
...Tbe hard causes they brought unto Mose§ , hut "fry small matter they judged themselves. Kiadta. HAR When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears. Hudibras. Some diseases, when they are easy to he cured, are hard to be known. SidneyTis hard to say,... | |
 | William Toone - 1832 - 584 pages
...TRAV. To take in dudgeon, was to resent an affront inwardly, previous to any outward shew of offence. When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why. HlIDlBRAS. DUKE HUMPHREY. In the old church of St. Paul's, one of the aisles was called Duke Humphrey's... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1832 - 536 pages
...as much as possible, these hot speeches, lest we should fall into the state described by Butler, ' When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears.' His Lordship was particular in mentioning, that these things do not excite irritation but apprehension.... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1833 - 26 pages
...omnium memorabile quae unquam gesta sunt, me scripturum. Liv. XXI. 1. When civil dudgeon first ran high, And men fell out, they knew not why ; When hard...the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk. HUDIBRAS, Canto I. 1. UNIOMACHIA. TITTE rOfiKárrmv K\ayyrj irepl уáррerа Oír eVet ovv àXS/LtaîS'... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 340 pages
...virtues and his own : Th' adventure of the Bear and Fiddle Is sung, but breaks off in the middle.* "HEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they...the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, 5 For Dame Religion as for punk ; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 pages
...; but when " these confusions began, the more part knew not wherefore they " were come together." 3 When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears,] Hardwords. — Probably the jargon and cant-words used by the Presbyterians, and other sectaries. They... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 pages
...changed it into fury. See line 3798 And men fell out, they Anew not why ;] Dr. Perrincheif 's Life of When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears/ Charles I. says, " There will never be wanting, in any country, some " discontented spirits, and some... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pages
...Presbyterians, as to the reigning monarch's dotage upon his mistresses. HUDIBRAS, PART I. CANTO I. WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out,...fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them light, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion as for punk ; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though... | |
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Th' adventure of the Bear and Fiddle Is sung, but breaks off in the middle. W HEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why... 
