 | John Dryden - 1874 - 388 pages
...horny fists was galled, And he was gifted most that loudest bawled; 405 The spirit gave the doctoral degree, And every member of a Company Was of his trade...of the Bible free. Plain truths enough for needful use they found, But men would still be itching to expound; 410 Each was ambitious of the obscurest... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 376 pages
...horny fists was galled, And he was gifted most that loudest bawled; 405 The spirit gave the doctoral degree, And every member of a -Company Was of his...of the Bible free. Plain truths enough for needful use they found, But men would still be itching to expound; 410 Each was ambitious of the obscurest... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pages
...with horny fists was gall'd ; And he was gifted most that loudest bawl'd. The spirit gave the doctoral degree : And every member of a company Was of his...of the Bible free. Plain truths enough for needful use they found ; 409 But men would still be itching to expound : Each was ambitious of the obscurest... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...that loudest buwl'd • The spirit gave the doctoral degree : And every member of a company Was of1 his trade, and of the Bible free. Plain truths enough for needful use they found; But men would still be itching to expound : F,ach was ambitious of th' obscurest place,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1878 - 368 pages
...horny fists was galled, And he was gifted most that loudest bawled; 405 The spirit gave the doctoral degree, And every member of a Company Was of his trade...of the Bible free. Plain truths enough for needful use they found, \ But men would still be itching to expound; 410 Each was ambitious of the obscurest... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1885 - 482 pages
...horny fists was galled, And he was gifted most, that loudest bawled ; 405 The Spirit gave the doctoral degree, And every member of a company Was of his trade...of the Bible free. Plain truths enough for needful use they found ; But men would still be itching to expound ; 4io Each was ambitious of the obscurest... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 pages
...with horny fists was galled. And he was gifted most that loudest bawled ; The spirit gave the doctoral degree. And every member of a Company Was of his trade...of the Bible free. Plain truths enough for needful use they found, But men would still be itching to expound ; 4'° Each was ambitious of the obscurest... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 562 pages
...horny fists was galled, 95 And he was gifted most that loudest bawled; The Spirit gave the doctoral degree, And every member of a company Was of his trade...of the Bible free. Plain truths enough for needful use they found, 100 But men would still be itching to expound; Each was ambitious of th' obscurest... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...with horny fists wa» gall'd, And he was gifted most that loudest bawl'd: The spirit gave the doctoral ir answer brings, Tliat not a blast was from his dungeon...strayed : The air was calm, and on the level brine M use they found, But men would still be itching to expound : 4io Each was ambitions of th' obscurest... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - English literature - 1923 - 348 pages
...with horny fists was galled; And he was gifted most that loudest bawled ; The spirit gave the doctoral degree, And every member of a Company Was of his trade...of the Bible free. Plain truths enough for needful use they found ; But men would still be itching to expound ; Each was ambitious of th' obscurest place,... | |
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Which each presum'd 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... 
