Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship of Fools, Aere PerenniusW. Miller, 1807 - 295 páginas |
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... hand supreme the balance see ; * This plan of browbeating , or to speak more properly , frightening a witness out of his wits , which is merely sub- stituting one letter for another , making him witless in- stead of witness , is now ...
... hand supreme the balance see ; * This plan of browbeating , or to speak more properly , frightening a witness out of his wits , which is merely sub- stituting one letter for another , making him witless in- stead of witness , is now ...
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... hand of their dejected Mariana on a very rich , but aged advocate ; the unfortunate sufferer , who had solely yielded her acquiescence on the score of duty , brooded but for a day on the wretchedness of her situation ; for on the morn ...
... hand of their dejected Mariana on a very rich , but aged advocate ; the unfortunate sufferer , who had solely yielded her acquiescence on the score of duty , brooded but for a day on the wretchedness of her situation ; for on the morn ...
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... hand a plate , Your elbow thrust ' gainst neighbour's pate , And then , to mend the matter ; When turning quick , O ! dire mishap ! O'erset the wine glass ; and in's lap , The plate's contents bespatter . L'ENVOY OF THE POET . Shun ev ...
... hand a plate , Your elbow thrust ' gainst neighbour's pate , And then , to mend the matter ; When turning quick , O ! dire mishap ! O'erset the wine glass ; and in's lap , The plate's contents bespatter . L'ENVOY OF THE POET . Shun ev ...
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... hands of the annotator , some sarcastic reader had annexed , in the margin , the following couplet , by no means inapplicable to the parties : How ev'ry clown must gape and stare , To see a Monkey lead a Bear ! * Nothing can possibly be ...
... hands of the annotator , some sarcastic reader had annexed , in the margin , the following couplet , by no means inapplicable to the parties : How ev'ry clown must gape and stare , To see a Monkey lead a Bear ! * Nothing can possibly be ...
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... hand of one of his own officers , who mur- dered him in his tent : but , were we to expatiate on this topic , and adduce every circumstance of a similar nature , in order to prove the instability of Fortune , no folio vo- lume would be ...
... hand of one of his own officers , who mur- dered him in his tent : but , were we to expatiate on this topic , and adduce every circumstance of a similar nature , in order to prove the instability of Fortune , no folio vo- lume would be ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Alexander Barclay attainment bard boast brain certainly CHORUS TO FOOLS class of fools common sense conceive Crowds flock curious fool dames death disgrace display doth ev'ry exclaim eyes fam'd fame famous fandango dance favours fear feel fidatevi folly FOOLISH fortune frequently gentlemen give gold hath head hear Heaven HERE'S honour human ideot instance John Perrot joys justly King L'ENVOY labour lady lines live Lord mind nature naught ne'er never noble o'er pain passion pleasure POET POET'S CHORUS Pope Innocent IV possessed present propensity prove Rara Avis reason render score SECTION Semiramis senseless Shakspeare shame silly slave sloth SOLOMON speaking species Stultifera Navis thee thine thing thyself tion trim the boat truth usury vanity vice vile Voltaire votaries whip wife wisdom wise words wretch writer youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 2 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Página 115 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 223 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Página 146 - ... we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity; fools, by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on : An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
Página 196 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? • no. Is it insensible, then? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it: honour is a mere scutcheon: — and so ends my catechism.
Página 146 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Página 176 - Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind 'away: O, that that earth which kept the world in awe Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw!— But soft!
Página 153 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Página 175 - To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Página 87 - And styl'd of war, as well as peace. (So some rats, of amphibious nature, Are either for the land or water) : But here our authors make a doubt, Whether he were more wise or stout...