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" A vermin wriggling in the usurper's ear. Bartering his venal wit for sums of gold, He cast himself into the saint-like mould ; Groaned, sighed, and prayed, while godliness was gain, The loudest bagpipe of the squeaking train. "
The Quarterly Review - Page 299
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volume 9

John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...began. * Next this, — how wildly will ambition steer ! A vermin wriggling in the usurper's car;f Bartering his venal wit for sums of gold, He cast...gain, The loudest bagpipe of the squeaking train. But, as 'tis hard to cheat a juggler's eyes, His open lewdness he could ne'er disguise. ]; There split...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 476 pages
...urchin of state, A pmiff"god-bare-bone peer, whom all men hate." State Poems, Vol. I. p. 143. Note V. He cast himself into the saint-like mould; Groaned,...gain, The loudest bagpipe of the squeaking train. But, as 'tis hard to cheat a juggler's eyes, His open lewdness he could ne'er disguise. — P. 432....
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Peregrine Bunce; Or, Settled at Last

Theodore Edward Hook - 1842 - 988 pages
...— and thus determined to " go the whole hog." " He cast himself into the saint-like mould, Groan'd, sighed, and prayed while godliness was gain, The loudest bagpipe of the squeaking train." Minton himself became exceedingly uneasy at the altered condition of his daughter, and not quite well...
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Peregrine Bunce: Or, Settled at Last

Theodore Edward Hook - 1842 - 330 pages
...and thus determined to " go the whole hog1." " He cast himself into the saint-like mould, Groan'd, sighed, and prayed while godliness was gain, The loudest bagpipe of the squeaking tram." Minton himself became exceedingly uneasy at the altered condition of his daughter, and not quite...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2

John Dryden - 1854 - 318 pages
...the winds, to war. A beardless chief, a rebel, ere a man ; So young his hatred to his prince began. Next this, — how wildly will ambition steer ! A...gain, The loudest bagpipe of the squeaking train. But, as 'tis hard to cheat a juggler's eyes, His open lewdness he could ne'er disguise. There split...
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The Christian world magazine (and family visitor)., Volume 18

1882 - 972 pages
...— Bartering his venal wit for sums of gold. He cast himself into the saint-like mould ; Oroaned, sighed, and prayed, while godliness was gain, The loudest bag-pipe of the squeaking train. There is nothing to show that Cooper did anything of the kind, and there is abundant reason to believe that...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 119

English literature - 1866 - 582 pages
...and ' Bartering his venal wit for sums of gold, Ho east himself into the saint-like mould: Groan'd, sighed, and prayed while godliness was gain, The loudest bagpipe of the squeaking train.' He joined General Monk when he saw that the restoration of the K-ing was probable, and was one of the...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 130-131

1871 - 650 pages
...Groaned, sighed, and prayed, while godliness was gain, The loudest bag-pipe of the squeaking tram.' There is not the slightest evidence that he did anything...little bobtail'd lord, urchin of state, A praise-god Barcbone peer, whom all men hate.' The charge of wriggling in the usurper's ear derives some semblance...
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History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun, Volume 2

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...the winds, to war ; A beardless chief, a rebel ere a man, So young his hatred to his Prince began. Next this, (how wildly will ambition steer !) A vermin...gain, The loudest bag-pipe of the squeaking train.' The same bitterness envenomed religious controversy. Disputes on dogma, for a moment cast into the...
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History of English Literature, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 564 pages
...the winds, to war ; A beardless chief, a rebel ere a man, So young his hatred to his Prince began. Next this, (how wildly will ambition steer !) A vermin...gain, The loudest bag-pipe of the squeaking train.' The same bitterness envenomed religious controversy. Disputes on dogma, for a moment cast into the...
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