The Laughing Philosopher: Being the Entire Works of Momus, Jester of Olympus; Democritus, the Merry Philosopher of Greece, and Their Illustrious Disciples, Ben Jonson, Butler, Swift, Gay, Joseph Miller, Esq., Churchill, Voltaire, Foote, Steevens, Wolcot, Sheridan, Curran, Colman, and OthersSherwood, Jones, 1825 - 767 páginas |
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... keeps all my house like a stye ; How came you to have your d - d hogs in the kitchen ? Is that a fit place to keep cattle , you -in . " " Lord , husband ! " said she , " what a coil you keep here , About a poor beggarly barrel of beer ...
... keeps all my house like a stye ; How came you to have your d - d hogs in the kitchen ? Is that a fit place to keep cattle , you -in . " " Lord , husband ! " said she , " what a coil you keep here , About a poor beggarly barrel of beer ...
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... keep it in repair while you are asleep . " EORGE III . AND THE WHIGS . When the Whigs came into power , they turned out every body , even Lord Sandwich , the master of the stag - hounds . The king met his lordship in his ride soon after ...
... keep it in repair while you are asleep . " EORGE III . AND THE WHIGS . When the Whigs came into power , they turned out every body , even Lord Sandwich , the master of the stag - hounds . The king met his lordship in his ride soon after ...
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... keep her in their houses , And own the children of their spouses . Vile practices ! the abbot cry'd , For pious use we're set aside ! Shall we take wives ? marriage at best Is but carnality profest . Now as the bishop took his glass ...
... keep her in their houses , And own the children of their spouses . Vile practices ! the abbot cry'd , For pious use we're set aside ! Shall we take wives ? marriage at best Is but carnality profest . Now as the bishop took his glass ...
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... keep it safe and sound . Each bottle had a curling ear , Through which the belt he drew , And hung a bottle on each side , To keep his balance true . Then over all , that he might be Equipp'd from top to toe , His long red cloak , well ...
... keep it safe and sound . Each bottle had a curling ear , Through which the belt he drew , And hung a bottle on each side , To keep his balance true . Then over all , that he might be Equipp'd from top to toe , His long red cloak , well ...
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... keep , To a black face have sometimes owed a ' scape , We often had recourse to a flying - leap ! And Hounslow - Heath has prov'd the worth ' of crape . But how , you ask , can we e'er hope to soar Above these scenes , and rise to ...
... keep , To a black face have sometimes owed a ' scape , We often had recourse to a flying - leap ! And Hounslow - Heath has prov'd the worth ' of crape . But how , you ask , can we e'er hope to soar Above these scenes , and rise to ...
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Página 481 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man. Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Página 408 - ... as Poor Richard says." They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows; "Friends," says he, and neighbours, "the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes...
Página 450 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
Página 408 - If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest prodigality; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
Página 409 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail.
Página 576 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say,- whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Página 411 - Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter. At present, perhaps, you may think yourselves in thriving circumstances, and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury ; but For age and want save while you may ; No morning sun lasts a whole day.
Página 451 - Kate soon will be a woefu' woman! Now, do thy speedy utmost, Meg, And win the key-stane of the brig: There at them thou thy tail may toss, A running stream they darena cross. But ere the key-stane she could make, The fient a tail she had to shake! For Nannie, far before the rest, Hard upon noble Maggie prest, And flew at Tam wi...
Página 539 - For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe: You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well, then, it now appears you need my help: Go to, then; you come to me, and you say, Shylock, we would have moneys...
Página 450 - Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire; Whiles holding fast his guid blue bonnet, Whiles crooning o'er some auld Scots sonnet. Whiles glow'ring round wi' prudent cares, Lest bogles catch him unawares: Kirk-Alloway was drawing nigh, Whare ghaists and houlets nightly cry. By this time he was cross the ford, Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; And past the birks and meikle stane, Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; And thro...