Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship of Fools, Aere PerenniusW. Miller, 1807 - 295 páginas |
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... score of vindictive satire , on my part , I shall deliver my thoughts on this head , in the words of Burton , who , in his elaborate and scientific Anatomy of Melancholy , has thus given two Latin lines in our mother tongue : The best ...
... score of vindictive satire , on my part , I shall deliver my thoughts on this head , in the words of Burton , who , in his elaborate and scientific Anatomy of Melancholy , has thus given two Latin lines in our mother tongue : The best ...
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... score of vindictive satire , on my part , I shall deliver my thoughts on this head , in the words of Burton , who , in his elaborate and scientific Anatomy of Melancholy , has thus given two Latin lines in our mother tongue : The best ...
... score of vindictive satire , on my part , I shall deliver my thoughts on this head , in the words of Burton , who , in his elaborate and scientific Anatomy of Melancholy , has thus given two Latin lines in our mother tongue : The best ...
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... score of duty , brooded but for a day on the wretchedness of her situation ; for on the morn which succeeded the nuptials , the melancholy bride , breaking an egg , mingled with the same a deadly poison unperceived ; when leisurely eat ...
... score of duty , brooded but for a day on the wretchedness of her situation ; for on the morn which succeeded the nuptials , the melancholy bride , breaking an egg , mingled with the same a deadly poison unperceived ; when leisurely eat ...
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... score , And horsemen too as many more , To chase the timid deer * In the Lives of the Saints , we are informed that Hu- bert , the hunter , became a convert to fasting and prayer , from a stag's appearing before him , while following ...
... score , And horsemen too as many more , To chase the timid deer * In the Lives of the Saints , we are informed that Hu- bert , the hunter , became a convert to fasting and prayer , from a stag's appearing before him , while following ...
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... score of yelping curs , as to find in the sounds nothing but dissonance and vile harshness . As the annotator has been speaking of cruelty , he cannot but add a few words on the score of cocking , which ge- nerally claims the attention ...
... score of yelping curs , as to find in the sounds nothing but dissonance and vile harshness . As the annotator has been speaking of cruelty , he cannot but add a few words on the score of cocking , which ge- nerally claims the attention ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
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...