 | Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 pages
...humour, that they are no longer to be called fabulous or improbable. Either for chartel or for warrant ; Great on the bench, great in the saddle, That could...bind o'er as swaddle ; Mighty he was at both of these as And styl'd of War, as well as Peace : (So some rats, of amphibious nature, Are either for the land... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...Chief of domestic knights and errant, Either for chartel or for warrant : Great on the bench, great on the saddle, That could as well bind o'er, as swaddle: Mighty he was at both of these, And styl'd of war as well as peace. (So some rats of amphibious nature, Are either for the land or water.)... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Lake District (England) - 1858 - 376 pages
...magistrate as well as a military man — " Great on the bench, great in the saddle, Mighty he -vras at both of these, And styled of War as well as Peace "), with the view of making a prisoner of the obnoxious Royalist. The major, however, was on the alert,... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1859 - 460 pages
...distinguished by the name of the ludicrous. Another specimen from the same author you have in these lines : " Great on the bench, great in the saddle, That could...amphibious nature Are either for the land or water."^ In this coarse kind of drollery those laughable translations or paraphrases of heroic and other serious... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1859 - 624 pages
...beat or cudgel, the other to bind up or swathe, hence swaddling clothes. See Johnson, Webster, &c. f Mighty he was at both of these, And styled of "War...amphibious nature Are either for the land or water. But here our authors make a doubt, Whether he were more wise or stout.' Some hold the one, and some... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...Worshipful on shoulder-blade ; Chief of domestic knights and errant, Either for chartel* or for warrant ; Great on the bench, great in the saddle, That could...as swaddle .;' Mighty he was at both of these, And styl'd of war, as well as peace (So some rats, of amphibious nature, Are either for the land or water).... | |
 | Lake District (England) - 1859 - 144 pages
...authority, (for he was a civil magistrate as well as a military manGreat on the bench, great in the saddle, Mighty he was at both of these, And styled of War as well as Peace, ) wrtth the view of making a prisoner of so obnoxious a person. The Major, however, was on he alert,... | |
 | Robert Nares - English language - 1859 - 544 pages
...cume, for fear Qfsvailling. Counter-Scuffle, Uryd. Vac., iii, J47. So Hudibras is said to be Great in the bench, great in the saddle, That could as well bind o'er [as a justice], as svaddte [as a combatant]. Part I, Can. i, v. 23. fío SWAFF. To beat over, like waves.... | |
 | Evenings - 1860 - 386 pages
...worshipful on shoulder-blade ; Chief of domestic knights and errant, Either for chartle or for warrant ; Great on the bench, great in the saddle, That could...amphibious nature, Are either for the land or water :) But here our authors make a doubt Whether he were more wise or stout : Some hold the one and some... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1860 - 458 pages
...distinguished by the name of the ludicrous. Another specimen from the same author you have in these lines : " Great on the bench, great in the saddle, That could...rats of amphibious nature Are either for the land or «w<er."t In this coarse kind of drollery those laughable translations or paraphrases of heroic and... | |
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Mighty he was at both of these, And styled of war as well as peace. (So some rats of amphibious nature Are either for the land or water.) But here our authors make a doubt Whether he were more wise or stout. 
