 | Arthur George F. Griffiths - 1870 - 334 σελίδες
...post, till they saw an opportunity for making their way across the bridge. CHAPTER IX. FOUND! 1 Ay me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with...cold iron ! What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps Do dog us still with after-claps !" HUDIBEAS. A CERTAIN time-honoured custom prevails throughout Her Majesty's... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 σελίδες
...DETACHED PASSAGES FROM HUDIBRAS. He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly. Ah me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron. In all the trade of war, no feat Is nobler than a brave retreat : For those that run away, and fly,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 328 σελίδες
...Butler himself, surely, ever contemplated this sort of ensample of his Hudibrastic reflection, " AT, me, what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!" Peiresc, hearing of a Tarragonese shepherd who had fallen into a sloe-tree, a sharp point of which... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1871 - 630 σελίδες
...want of wit in their unerring guide, And eager haste, and gaudy hopes, and giddy pride.' " Dryden. " Ah me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles...mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still with after-claps !" JftiJibras. к 2 CALCULATE. MISADVENTURE is the more serious form of mishap. It is a calamity occurring... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1871 - 280 σελίδες
...don't like having the truth told of them, and are prone to recalcitrate to the best of their ability. ' Ah me, what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron ' — in the shape of a pen ! But, after all, the world little knows where the satirist gets his models... | |
 | Agnes Giberne - 1872 - 454 σελίδες
..."Womankind, you should rather say." • chances of a street fray after dark ? "Tis well said— "' Ay me, what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron.' The office of knight-errant may be honourable, but 'tis not over secure. " ' And tho' knights errant,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 σελίδες
...same sign, Clay, clay, — and spirit, spirit. Be pitiful, O God. MRS. EB BROWNING : Cry of the Human. Ah me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron ! BUTLER : Hudibras. For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain; Hence... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 σελίδες
...Shakespeare, Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 3. Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, Act iv. Sc. 2. * Ay me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron. Butler's Hudibras, Part i. Canto iii. Line I. [Faerie Queene continued. No daintie flowre or herbe... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1877 - 610 σελίδες
...by storm, release Crowdero, and put the Squire in 's place ; I should have first said HUDIBRAS. AY me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with...mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still with after-claps ! For though Dame Fortune seem to smile, And leer upon him for a while, She'll after show him, in the... | |
 | 1877 - 362 σελίδες
...INTERCOURSE from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. — POPE, Eloísa. Iron. — Ay me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold IRON ! — BUTLER, Hudibras. — IRON sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.... | |
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AY me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron ! What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still with after-claps... 
