| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 páginas
...trillere; be our happier plan To pass through life as easy as we can. Who's in or out, who moves this grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, nor spleen. Secrets of state no more I wiih to know Thau secret movements of a puppet-show; Let Uut the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 páginas
...tririers; be our happier plan To pass through life as easy as we can. Who's in or out, who moves this grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, nor spleen. Secrets of state no more Т wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show ; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire,... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1836 - 276 páginas
...of the lucrative professions — happy the useful and substantial citizen that can say — " Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs...no more I wish to know, Than secret movements of a puppet-show," &c. It is said of one of the first writers of Queen Anne's time — " He kept the best... | |
| Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 400 páginas
...triflers, be our happier plan zss To pass through life as easy as we can. Who's in or out, who moves this grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity nor spleen....no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show : 260 Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master-wire.... | |
| 1847 - 526 páginas
...grave, the gay, the fopling, and the dunce, Start up (God bless us !) statesmen all at once ! 5. Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs...no more I wish to know, Than secret movements of a puppet-show : Let but the puppets move, I 've my desire, Unseen the hand that guides the master wire.... | |
| 1847 - 540 páginas
...grave, the gay, the fopling, and the dunce, Start up (God bless us !) statesmen all at once ! 6. Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs...no more I wish to know, Than secret movements of a puppet-show : Let but the puppets move, I 've my desire, Unseen the hand that guides the master wire.... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 páginas
...That rule affairs of state, Their purpose is ambition; Their practice only hate. Sir W. Raleigh. Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs...no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire,... | |
| Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1854 - 386 páginas
...throngh life as easy as we can. Who's in or ont, who moves this grand machine, Nor stirs my cnriosity nor spleen. Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a pnppet-show : ao Let bnt the pnppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which gnides the master-wire.... | |
| 1866 - 398 páginas
...triflers, be our happier plan as To pass through life as easy as we can. Who's in or out, who moves this grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity nor spleen....no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show : a•> Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master-wire.... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 páginas
...ball ; One statesman rising on another's fall. Richard Brome, Queen's Who's in or out, who moves this grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, nor spleen...no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show ; Let but the puppets move, I ve my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.... | |
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