 | Thomas Longueville - Authors, English - 1902 - 388 pages
...prodigious creatures man, A spirit free to choose for my own share, What sort of flesh and blood I pleased to wear, I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, Or anything but that vain animal, Who is so proud of being rational. The senses are too gross, and he'll... | |
 | Johann Georg Hamann - 1905 - 210 pages
...Autorschaft von andern zugesetzt werde. Mann, lieber Hinz! Ich möchte mit dem Radierter schreien: I'd be a Dog, a Monkey or a Bear, Or any thing, but that vain Animal! Du meinst einen Autor — lateinischer Schulfuchs! Ich aber meine einen Verleger. Erlaube mir im römischen... | |
 | Johannes Prinz, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester - Poets, English - 1927 - 512 pages
...prodigious Creatures Man) A Spirit free to chuse, for my own Share, What Case of Flesh and Blood I'd please to wear, I'd be a Dog, a Monkey, or a Bear; Or any Thing, but that vain Animal, Who is so proud of being Rational. His Senses are too gross, and he'll contrive A sixth, to contradict the... | |
 | Harry Kemp - English poetry - 1927 - 482 pages
...prodigious creatures man, A spirit free, to choose for my own share, What sort of flesh and blood I pleased to wear, I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, Or anything but that vain animal, Who is so proud of being rational. The senses are too gross, and he... | |
 | William Yandell Elliott - Pragmatism - 1928 - 568 pages
...prodigious Creatures, Man,) A Spirit free to chuse for my own share What case of Flesh and Blood I'd please to wear, I'd be a Dog, a Monkey, or a Bear, Or anything but that vain animal Who is so proud of being Rational. . . . The Senses are too gross, and... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - English literature - 1989 - 490 pages
...prodigious Creatures Man, A Spirit free, to choose for my own share What sort of Flesh and Blood I pleased to wear, I'd be a Dog, a Monkey or a Bear, Or any thing, but that vain Animal, Who is so proud of being rational. If this seems extreme or childish misanthropy, one must recall the fact... | |
 | George deF. Lord - Poetry - 1963 - 608 pages
...those strange prodigious creatures man) A spirit free, to choose for my own share, What case of flesh and blood I pleas'd to wear, I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear; Or anything but that vain animal Who is so proud of being rational. In ev'ry age the lumpish mass to move,... | |
 | D. E. Hathway - Biotransformation (Metabolism) - 1977 - 44 pages
...spirit free, to choose for my own share What sort of flesh and blood I pleased to wear I'd be a dog, monkey or a bear, Or any thing but that vain animal Who is so proud of being rational. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Whilst the contents of this Specialist Periodical... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...A Satire against Mankind A Spirit free, to choose for my own share. What sort of Flesh and Blood 1 9 O that those lips had language! Life has passed 373 POETRY QUOTATIONS 374 Or any thing, but that vain Animal, Who is so proud of being rational. (1.... | |
 | James E. Gill - English literature - 1995 - 468 pages
...... a Spirit free, to choose for my own share,/What Case of Flesh, and Blood, I pleas'd to weare,/I'd be a Dog, a Monkey, or a Bear,/ Or any thing but that vain Animal/Who is so proud of being rational" (91-92). We grasp the point of the satire, quite simply,... | |
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I'd be a Dog, a Monkey or a Bear, Or any thing, but that vain Animal, Who is so proud of being rational. 
