...MARBOSA'S HUNTING LODGE — THE There was an ancient philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love. — Butler: Hudibras, Part I. " MARBOSA ! MARBOSA ! " shouted several voices at once. A score of young...

...5Dlenfфen", S. 314. l70 „There was an ancient sage philosopher, That had read Alexander Ross1) 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 all but love and battles?" 9hm finben roir aber in bem...

...canto thus — " ' There was an ancient sage philosopher, That hail read Alexander Rosse over; And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love. " Whatever might be Butler's opinion of Ross, however, he lived and died a ' prosperous gentleman,'...

...wooden Bastile. CANTO II. THere was an ancient sage Philosopher, That 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 all, but Love and Battels? O' th' first of these w'have...

...Author evidently agrees with " That ancient sage philosopher Who had read Alexander Ross over, And iwore 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; but there...