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“Quoth Hudibras, "I smell a rat!
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate."”
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Источник: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
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Источник: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.”
The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler (1759), edited by Robert Thyer
“Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.”
Canto III, line 1
Источник: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
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Источник: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“While the honour thou hast got
Is spick and span new.”
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Источник: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
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Источник: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd,
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.”
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Источник: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
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Источник: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“Why should not conscience have vacation
As well as other courts o' th' nation?”
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Источник: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
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Источник: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“With many a stiff thwack, many a bang,
Hard crab-tree and old iron rang.”
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Источник: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“But still his tongue ran on, the less
Of weight it bore, with greater ease.”
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Источник: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
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Источник: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.”
Canto III, line 243
Источник: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“Love is a boy by poets styl'd;
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.”
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Источник: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“Where entity and quiddity,
The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.”
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Источник: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“Quoth she, I 've heard old cunning stagers
Say fools for arguments use wagers.”
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Источник: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“Who thought he 'd won
The field as certain as a gun.”
Canto III, line 11
Источник: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“Like feather bed betwixt a wall
And heavy brunt of cannon ball.”
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Источник: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“For truth is precious and divine,—
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.”
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Источник: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Canto II, line 377.
Источник: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“There 's but the twinkling of a star
Between a man of peace and war.”
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Источник: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Prose Observations (Oxford: 1979), p. 4
“He knew what 's what, and that 's as high
As metaphysic wit can fly.”
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Источник: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
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Источник: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
