 So politic, as if one eye Upon the other were a spy, That, to trepan the one to think The other blind, both strove to blink: And in his dark pragmatic way As busy as a child at play. H...  To-day - 100 psl.redagavo - 1890Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | 1871 - 910 psl.
...fly." Is not this, too, a vividly humorous description, in four lines, of a quack politician ? — " So politic, as if one eye Upon the other were a spy...one to think The other blind, both strove to blink." Another example of his power of humour is the description of the fight between the hero, the bear,... | |
 | William Dougal Christie - 1871 - 642 psl.
...may be excused for judging wrongly and severely. Butler's character of Shaftesbury begins : " 'Mong these there was a politician, With more heads than a beast in vision." Probably Butler's sketch, though published much later, refers chiefly, if not exclusively, to Shaftesbury's... | |
 | Henry Whitcomb Holley - 1876 - 138 psl.
...great glory, The nub is of this pleasing story ! THE POLITICIANS. AN AMERICAN TALE. CANTO I. " "Mong these there was a politician With more heads than a beast in vision, And more intrigues in eveiy one, Than all the sins of Babylon." BUTLER. PON this earth there live as... | |
 | Richard Gosche, Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld - 1877 - 642 psl.
...eine ist Ashley Cooper, Vater des durch seine Schriften so berühmten Earl of Shaftesbury : ,,'Mong these there was a politician With more heads than a beast in vision, And more intrigues in ev'ry one Than all the whores of Babylon." 351—4. Der ihm von unserem Dichter... | |
 | Richard Gosche, Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld - 1877 - 650 psl.
...eine ist Ashley Cooper, Vater des durch seine Schriften so berühmten Earl of Shaftesbury : „'Mong these there was a politician With more heads than a beast in vision, And more intrigues in ev'ry one Than all the whores of Babylon." 351 — 4. Der ihm von unserem Dichter... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1877 - 610 psl.
...more heads than a beast in vision, And more intrigues in every one Than all the Whores of Babylon : So politic, as if one eye Upon the other were a spy ; 1 ' Politician : ' Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, afterwards Lord Shaftesbnry, who complied with every... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1883 - 422 psl.
...vision, And more intrigues in every one Than all the whores of Babylon ; 355 So politic, as if one eye That, to trepan the one to think The other blind,...both strove to blink ; And in his dark pragmatic way 360 As busy as a child at play. H' had seen three governments run down, And 'had a hand in every one... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1883 - 426 psl.
...fumbling arteries ; Prolong the snuff of life in pain, 350 And from the grave recover — gain. 'Mong these there was a politician, With more heads than a beast in vision, And more intrigues in every one Than all the whores of Babylon ; 355 So politic, as if one eye Upon... | |
 | 1883 - 762 psl.
...Samuel Butler in the Third part of Hudibrai, shows him in his fertility of resources : — ' Mongst these there was a politician With more heads than a Beast in Vision, And more intrigues in every one Than all the eajoq^ in Babylon : [Bevel., xiii. So politick, as if... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1890 - 364 psl.
...shadow of your shoe-tie. Conven'd at midnight in outhdmes, To appoint new rising rendezvouses. 'Mong these there was a politician, With more heads than a beast in vision.So politic, as if one eye, Upon the other were a spy That to trepan the one to think The other... | |
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