 | Samuel Butler - 1801 - 528 pagine
...Sec a trad, entitled, The Golden Calf, written Could tell what fubtleft parrots mean, 550 That fpeak and think contrary clean; What member 'tis of whom...they talk, When they cry Rope, and Walk, knave, walk . written in Latin by John Frederick Helretius, publifhed 1670, p.()7, 1O4, 115. Public Library Cambridge,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 434 pagine
...parrot prophesiet. To this, Butler hints, where, speaking of Ralpho's skill in augury, he says — " Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, " That speak...talk, " When they cry rope, and walk, knave, walk'' Wen.burton. So, in Decker's Satiromastix ; " But come, respice funem." Steenens. t jour customers?]... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1805 - 440 pagine
...themselves do words r Cou'd tell what subtlest parrots mean, Thnt speak, and think contrary clean : 550 What Member 'tis of whom they talk, When they cry. Rope, and walk, knave, walk. Jfe'd extract numbers oxit of matter, Aail keep them in a glass, like water ; Of sov'reign pow'r to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 404 pagine
...my parrot prophesies. To this, Butler hints, where, speaking of Ralpho's skill in augury, he says, Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak...they talk, When they cry ROPE, and walk, knave, walk. WARBURTON. 36 Kitchen-vestal.] Her charge being like that of the vestal virgins, to keep the fire burning.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 380 pagine
...says: " Conld tell what snhtlest parrots mean, "That speak and think contrary clean; " What memher 'tis of whom they talk, "When they cry rope, and walk, knave, walk." WAHBUHToN. So, in Decker's Satiromastix : '"lint come, respice j'nnem." STEEvENs. The phrase is common... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 pagine
...: He nnderstood the speech of hirds As well as they themselves do words ; Conld tell what snbtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean...they talk When they cry ' Rope,' and ' Walk, knave, walk.1 He'd extract nnmbers ont of matter, And keep them in a glass, like water, Of sovereign pow'r... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pagine
...do words ; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and tbink contrary clean ; What memlwr mine the shame. Good lite be now my task : my doubts are done : What mo He'd extract numbers out of matter, And keep them in a glass, like water, Of sovereign power to make... | |
 | Henry William Weber - 1810 - 476 pagine
...incuts of Ralpho, says : " He understood the speech of birds As well as they themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean." OCTOUIAN IMPERATOR. V. 127, Thouneverseghnowoman)But schehadde a by-leman, That myght conceyue two... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 434 pagine
...idea ; -such language as parrots are taught to speak. So, in Hudibrass : " Could tell what subtMest parrots mean, " That speak, and think contrary clean...What member 'tis of whom they talk, " When they cry rcpe, and walk, knave walk." MALI [9] It may mean, that he shall swell up her eyes with blows, till... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 pagine
...themselves do words; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean* TJiat think and. speak contrary clean; 550 What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry Rope, and Wnlk, knave, walk. He'd extract numbers out of matter, And keep them in a glass, like water ; Of sov'reign... | |
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He understood the speech of birds As well as they themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry ' Rope,' and 
