Samuel Butler war ein englischer Dichter.
„Wer flieht, kann später wohl noch siegen! / Ein toter Mann bleibt ewig liegen.“
Hudibras
"For those that fly may fight again, / Which he can never do that's slain." - Hudibras, Part III, Canto III, v. 243-4 exclassics.com http://www.exclassics.com/hudibras/hudibras.txt
„Die Frau, die man mit Poesie gewann, / Ist nur ein Tisch, worauf man schreiben kann.“
Hudibras
"She that with poetry is won, / Is but a desk to write upon" - Hudibras, Part II, Canto I, v. 591-2 exclassics.com http://www.exclassics.com/hudibras/hudibras.txt
„So winzig sind der Frauen Seelen, dass mancher annimmt, dass sie gänzlich fehlen.“
Vermischte Gedanken
"The souls of women are so small, / That some believe they've none at all" - Miscellanious Thoughts.
“Quoth Hudibras, "I smell a rat!
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate."”
Canto I, line 821
Quelle: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Canto I, line 1495
Quelle: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.”
The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler (1759), edited by Robert Thyer
“Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.”
Canto III, line 1
Quelle: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Canto III, line 1047
Quelle: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“While the honour thou hast got
Is spick and span new.”
Canto III, line 398
Quelle: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Canto II, line 29
Quelle: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd,
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.”
Canto III, line 923
Quelle: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Canto III, line 624
Quelle: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“Why should not conscience have vacation
As well as other courts o' th' nation?”
Canto II, line 317
Quelle: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Canto I, line 1277
Quelle: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“With many a stiff thwack, many a bang,
Hard crab-tree and old iron rang.”
Canto II, line 831
Quelle: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“But still his tongue ran on, the less
Of weight it bore, with greater ease.”
Canto II, line 443
Quelle: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
Canto II, line 501
Quelle: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.”
Canto III, line 243
Quelle: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“Love is a boy by poets styl'd;
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.”
Canto I, line 843
Quelle: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“Where entity and quiddity,
The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.”
Canto I, line 145
Quelle: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“Quoth she, I 've heard old cunning stagers
Say fools for arguments use wagers.”
Canto I, line 297
Quelle: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“Who thought he 'd won
The field as certain as a gun.”
Canto III, line 11
Quelle: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“Like feather bed betwixt a wall
And heavy brunt of cannon ball.”
Canto II, line 872
Quelle: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“For truth is precious and divine,—
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.”
Canto II, line 257
Quelle: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Canto II, line 377.
Quelle: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“There 's but the twinkling of a star
Between a man of peace and war.”
Canto III, line 957
Quelle: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
Prose Observations (Oxford: 1979), p. 4
“He knew what 's what, and that 's as high
As metaphysic wit can fly.”
Canto I, line 149
Quelle: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Canto I, line 51
Quelle: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
