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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... turning to the servant , " bring me a kujus glass . ” GOUT AND RHEUMATISM A Frenchman , being afflicted with the gout ... turn more , dat is de gout . ' ON SIX SORTS OF PEOPLE , WHO KEEP FASTS . The miser fasts because he will not eat ...
... turning to the servant , " bring me a kujus glass . ” GOUT AND RHEUMATISM A Frenchman , being afflicted with the gout ... turn more , dat is de gout . ' ON SIX SORTS OF PEOPLE , WHO KEEP FASTS . The miser fasts because he will not eat ...
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... Turn that dog out ! " but his lordship said , " Turn out the man he belongs to , and we shall soon get rid of the dog . " ECONOMY Garrick was supping with Foote at a tavern ,. IRISH REASONING : An Irish pedlar asked an itinerant ...
... Turn that dog out ! " but his lordship said , " Turn out the man he belongs to , and we shall soon get rid of the dog . " ECONOMY Garrick was supping with Foote at a tavern ,. IRISH REASONING : An Irish pedlar asked an itinerant ...
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... Turn , turn , " cried the stranger , perplexed . - bye . " " What turn ? Would place the king on your lathe , eh ? " Our hero did not well know what to make of his quick and versatile companion ; and while the old gentleman was laughing ...
... Turn , turn , " cried the stranger , perplexed . - bye . " " What turn ? Would place the king on your lathe , eh ? " Our hero did not well know what to make of his quick and versatile companion ; and while the old gentleman was laughing ...
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... turn'd to oil ; And thus I buy good meat for sluts to spoil . " Tis we are the first Slouches ever sate Down to a pudding without plumbs or fat . What teeth or stomach's strong enough to feed Upon a goose my grannem kept to breed ? Why ...
... turn'd to oil ; And thus I buy good meat for sluts to spoil . " Tis we are the first Slouches ever sate Down to a pudding without plumbs or fat . What teeth or stomach's strong enough to feed Upon a goose my grannem kept to breed ? Why ...
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... turn , began to long for it ; but that , upon any future occasion , if she should again long for it , it was at her service upon such terms . LILLY'S WIFE At Lilly , the almanack - maker , in the history of his life , makes the ...
... turn , began to long for it ; but that , upon any future occasion , if she should again long for it , it was at her service upon such terms . LILLY'S WIFE At Lilly , the almanack - maker , in the history of his life , makes the ...
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Alderman answered apothecary asked bishop called Charles Bannister church court cried Dean Swift dear devil dine dinner doctor door drink Eger epigram exclaimed eyes fair Falstaff father fellow fool gentleman give glass gout guineas hand head hear heard heart heaven Heigh-ho highwayman honour Horace Walpole horse humour husband Irish keep king lady Lady L live look Lord Lord Chesterfield lordship madam maid marriage married master mind morning ne'er never night nose o'er Old Bailey once person Pertinax play poor pounds pray quoth racter replied round sent servant shilling soon soul sure swear tell thee there's thing thou thought told took town turn Twas walk wife wine wish woman word young Zounds
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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...