Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship of Fools, Aere PerenniusW. Miller, 1807 - 295 страници |
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... display thy conduct to the world of fools . To intrude upon thee fulsome flattery would be fruitless , thy discriminating sense would pierce the flimsy veil : to wish thee unfading happiness would be nugatory , since wisdom is thy ...
... display thy conduct to the world of fools . To intrude upon thee fulsome flattery would be fruitless , thy discriminating sense would pierce the flimsy veil : to wish thee unfading happiness would be nugatory , since wisdom is thy ...
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... display Nuga canora of the present day ; Or Little poems § for the fleeting hour : Effusions which our modern belles adore , Who only languish as they read for More ; Of dulcet trifles such the magic pow'r . The new Heloise of J. J. ...
... display Nuga canora of the present day ; Or Little poems § for the fleeting hour : Effusions which our modern belles adore , Who only languish as they read for More ; Of dulcet trifles such the magic pow'r . The new Heloise of J. J. ...
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... displays the arrival of a beautiful country girl in the metropolis , who is supposed to have that moment alighted from the waggon , being accosted by an artful procuress ; while in the back ground appears the infamous Colonel C ― rt - s ...
... displays the arrival of a beautiful country girl in the metropolis , who is supposed to have that moment alighted from the waggon , being accosted by an artful procuress ; while in the back ground appears the infamous Colonel C ― rt - s ...
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... display the folly of such conduct than the close of that great man's life , who was attended on his death - bed by this fascinating dame , who , finding the monarch's end fast approaching , threw aside all those fascinations which she ...
... display the folly of such conduct than the close of that great man's life , who was attended on his death - bed by this fascinating dame , who , finding the monarch's end fast approaching , threw aside all those fascinations which she ...
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... display of personal ha- biliments in women , is a certain indication of intellec- tual depravity . " * As a specimen of that indefatigable zeal which should characterize the clerical robe , the following extract from the Harleian MSS ...
... display of personal ha- biliments in women , is a certain indication of intellec- tual depravity . " * As a specimen of that indefatigable zeal which should characterize the clerical robe , the following extract from the Harleian MSS ...
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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
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Страница 2 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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!
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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!
Страница 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.
Страница 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!
Страница 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...