...prisoner, Conreys him to enehanted eastle, There shuts him fast in wooden Bastile. i HSBE was an aneient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he eould prove, Was made of fighting and of love. •Iust so Romanees are, for what else is in them all...

...munimcntmn regnante Carolo V. fecisse, &c. Vid. Zeilleri Topograph. Galliet, vol. 1. p. 4-4. CANT. v. 1, 2. There was an ancient sage philosopher, — That had read Alexander Ross over] This vvrse runs the same fate with the eleventh of the first Canto, in being censured by Mr. Addison,...

...tragedy. The Author evidently agrees with " That ancient sage philosopher Who h il i.-.jd Aluxander Koss over, And swore the world, as he could prove. Was made of fighting and of love." Love and murder constitute the staple of every tragedy, and here we have both in abundance...

...takes the Fiddler prisoner ; Conveys him to enchanted castle, There shuts him fast in wooden bastile. THERE was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read...the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love : Just so romances are, for what else 5 Is in them all but love and battles ? O' th' first1...

...Scot. Ross, SIB JOHN, commemorated in Dunbar's Lament, but not otherwise known. Iloss, Dn. ALEXANDER. " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read...the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love." Dr. Ross, whose name these sarcastic lines of Butler have, perhaps, done more to preserve,...

...Ross, SIR JOHN, commemorated in Dunhar's Lament, but not otherwise known. , Ross, DR. ALEXANDER. " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read...the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love." Dr. Ross, whose name these sarcastic lines of Butler have, perhaps, done more to preserve,...

...takes the Fiddler prisoner, Conveys him to enchanted castle, There shuts him fast in wooden Bastile. THERE was an ancient sage philosopher That had read...And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of righting and of love. Just so Romances are, for what else Is in them all but love and battles ? O'...

...thus I solve this hard phenomenon." And these of Butler, in the same last-mentioned kind of verse : " There was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over." * Here the 5th foot is analogous to " rtsolvtr*." M Our dodecasyllabics, such as the two lines to which...

...PANTON, Cheapside, London; and EDWARD WEST & Co. Edinburgh. 3, CUBLL, PRINT EB. MECHANICS' MAGAZINE. * There was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read...the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love : Just so romances are ; for what else Is in them all, but love and battles ? O' the first...

...satirical Bard has well described these mock-heroic histories— There was an ancient sage philosopher, Who had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love. Just so romances are, for what else Is in them bat loves and battles. Hudibrai, ca.nt.-2....