A mode that is held honourable, As well as French and fashionable: For when it falls out for the best, Where both are incommoded least, In soul and body two unite... Hudibras: A Poem - Page 170by Samuel Butler - 1822 - 494 pagesFull view - About this book
| British essayists - 1823 - 854 pages
...And it is surely no less absurd. to see a man and his wife eternally trifling and toying together, Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling. HUDIBRAS. " I have often been reduced to a kind of awkward distress on these occasions ; not knowing... | |
| James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 422 pages
...And it is surely no less absurd, to see a man and his wife eternally trifling and toying together, Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling. HUDIBRAS. I have often been reduced to a kind of awkward distress on these occasions; not knowing which... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 294 pages
...couple has at last had separate beds, while the other have been carried to the opera in hackney chairs. Still amorous, and fond, and 'billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.—HTTDIRRAS. ' I have often been reduced to a kind of awkward distress on these occasions... | |
| Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 pages
...opinion of the exhibition of such a scene, which he so ludicrously describes on an English coin — Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling'. Canto 1. third part. Adulteries. As in this age of reason and piety adulterers and adulteresses often... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1829 - 346 pages
...either sex dare marry, But rather trust on tick t' amours, The cross and pile for better or worse ; 680 A mode that is held honourable, As well as French,...body two unite, 685 To make up one hermaphrodite, era, that the soul transmigrated (as they termed it) into all the diverse speclM of animals ; and BO... | |
| John Thomas Smith - Artists - 1829 - 416 pages
...her master was patting her mistress's cheek with the backs of his fingers, and they both appeared " Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling." Or, " Like dogs that snarl about a bone, And play together when they 've none." Nollekens, though his... | |
| 1831 - 426 pages
...either sex dare marry, But rather trust on tick t' amours, The cross and pile for bett'r or worse : A mode that is held honourable, As well as French,...are incommoded least. In soul and body two unite. To make up one hermaphrodite : Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling,... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 332 pages
...either sex dare marry, But rather trust on tick t' amours, The cross and pile for bett'r or worse ; 6ao A mode that is held honourable As well as French and...punctilios and capriches Between the petticoat and breeches ; ego More petulant extravagances Than poets make 'em in romances ; Though when their heroes 'spouse... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 460 pages
...happiness or unhappiness to gallantries, for which they take one another's word. 136 HUDIBRAS. [PART in. For when it falls out for the best, Where both are...and capriches Between the petticoat and breeches, 690 More petulant extravagances, Than poets make 'em in romances ; Tho', when their heroes 'spouse... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 418 pages
...use. * The cross and pile for better or worse;} Whose tonge ne pill ne crouche maie hire. J. Gower. For when it falls out for the best. Where both are...and fond, and billing-, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling,3 They've more punctilios and capriches Between the petticoat and breeches, 690 More petulant... | |
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