Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler was a poet and satirist. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical poem titled Hudibras.
роки життя: 14 Лютого 1613 25 Вересня 1680

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mironastiaцитує23 дні тому
few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror. No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror.
mironastiaцитує23 дні тому
when her eyes were withdrawn, secretly crossed his two forefingers, and exhibited them to me, as our token that Mrs. Joe was in a cross temper. This was so much her normal state, that Joe and I would often, for weeks together, be, as to our fingers, like monumental Crusaders as to their legs.
mironastiaцитує23 дні тому
These extensive arrangements occasioned us to be cut off unceremoniously in respect of breakfast; “for I ain’t,” said Mrs. Joe,—“I ain’t a going to have no formal cramming and busting and washing up now, with what I’ve got before me, I promise you!”

So, we had our slices served out, as if we were two thousand troops on a forced march instead of a man and boy at home;
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