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.
“As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon 't.”
Canto I, line 481
Quelle: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
“True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shin'd upon.”
Canto II, line 175
Quelle: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
Canto I, line 221
Quelle: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“Have always been at daggers-drawing,
And one another clapper-clawing.”
Canto II, line 79
Quelle: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“For what is worth in anything
But so much money as 't will bring?”
Canto I, line 465
Quelle: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“For those that run away and fly,
Take place at least o' the enemy.”
Canto III, line 609
Quelle: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Canto I, line 159
Quelle: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“I am not now in fortune's power:
He that is down can fall no lower.”
Canto III, line 877
Quelle: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
"Miscellaneous Thoughts" in The Poems of Samuel Butler, Volume 2, Press of C. Whittingham, 1822, p. 269
"Fragments", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“No Indian prince has to his palace
More followers than a thief to the gallows.”
Canto I, line 273
Quelle: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses,
With which like Ships they steer their courses.”
Canto I, line 463
Quelle: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“I 'll make the fur
Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.”
Canto III, line 277
Quelle: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Canto I, line 65
Quelle: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“He had got a hurt
O' the inside, of a deadlier sort.”
Canto III, line 309
Quelle: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“He that complies against his will.
Is of his own opinion still.”
Canto III, line 547. Sometimes misreported as "is convinced" instead of "complies"; reported in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 11
Quelle: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
Quelle: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
Kontext: Shall we that in the Cov'nant swore,
Each man of us to run before
Another, still in Reformation,
Give dogs and bears a dispensation?
How will Dissenting Brethren relish it?
What will malignants say? videlicet,
That each man Swore to do his best,
To damn and perjure all the rest!
And bid the Devil take the hin'most,
Which at this race is like to win most.
“Still amorous and fond and billing,
Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.”
Canto I, line 687
Quelle: Hudibras, Part III (1678)
From Miscellaneous Thoughts, lines 283-290 ; as contained in The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler: A Revised Edition with Memoir and Notes, Volume 2, Samuel Butler, G. Bell & Sons (1893), pp. 275-276
