 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1882 - 480 pages
...subject of the dubious and contradictory commentary of the laity at large: when " The common rule was made the common prey, And at the mercy of the rabble lay ; The tender page with horny fists was galled, And he was gifted most that loudest bawled ; The spirit gave the doctoral degree,... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1885 - 818 pages
...thus put in every vulgar band, 400 Which each presumed he best could understand, The Common Rule was made the common prey, And at the mercy of the Rabble lay. The tender p;ige with horny fists was gall'd. And he was " gifted " most who loudest bawl'd ; The Spirit gave... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1887 - 674 pages
...the dubious and commentary of the laity at large : when "The common rule was made th3 common proy, And at the mercy of the rabble lay ; The tender page with horny fists was gallM, And he was gifted most that loudest bawl'd ; The spirit gave the doctoral degree,... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pages
...thus put in every vulgar hand, 400 Which each presumed he best could understand, The common rule was made the common prey, And at the mercy of the rabble lay. The tender page with horny fists was galled, And he was gifted most that loudest bawled ; 405 The spirit gave the doctoral degree,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1885 - 476 pages
...put in every vulgar hand, t 400 Which each presumed he best could understand, 'The common rule was made the common prey, And at the mercy of the rabble lay. tThe tender page with horny fists was galled, And he was gifted most, that loudest bawled ; 405 The... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 pages
...thus put in every vulgar hand, 4°° Which each presumed he best could understand, The common rule was made the common prey, And at the mercy of the rabble lay. The tender page with horny fists was galled. And he was gifted most that loudest bawled ; The spirit gave the doctoral degree.... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...Book thus put in every vulgar hand, Which each presumed he best could understand, The common rule was made the common prey, And at the mercy of the rabble lay. The tender page with horny fists was galled, 95 And he was gifted most that loudest bawled; The Spirit gave the doctoral degree,... | |
 | Adam Reusse - English language - 1913 - 140 pages
...spirit grows importunate, „But I'll not take his counsel." Spirit of God, masc. 1. 231 : „The spirit gave the doctoral degree: „And every member of a company „Was of his trade" — — Paraclete, masc. 2. 89: „Last solemn sabbath saw the church attend „The Paraclete in fiery... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...thus put in every vulgar hand, 400 Which each presum'd he best could understand, The common rule was q + ~\ 6rdWu e 2}q ( 6 LM ^ 9 jIvK$ C6 xq =Yîo|D[F <GS 23Ɨa fists was gall'd, And he was gifted most that loudest bawl'd: The spirit gave the doctoral degree;... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...vulgar hand, 400 Which each presum'd he best could understand, The common rule was made the common n opes, the iron shuts amain). lie shook bis mitred locks, and fists wa» gall'd, And he was gifted most that loudest bawl'd: The spirit gave the doctoral degree;... | |
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