Stultifera Navis; ...: The Modern Ship of FoolsW. Miller, 1807 - 295 Seiten |
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... bring forth her offspring Apollo . Delos was also the birth place of Diana . It is almost needless to add , that Science and Chastity are total strangers to the Goddess of Fools . B darest thou act in opposition to my lenient decrees ...
... bring forth her offspring Apollo . Delos was also the birth place of Diana . It is almost needless to add , that Science and Chastity are total strangers to the Goddess of Fools . B darest thou act in opposition to my lenient decrees ...
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... bring them all aflote , For if all these fooles were brought into one barge , The bote should sinke , so sore should be the charge . The sayles are haused , a pleasant coole doth blowe , The fooles assemble as fast as they may drive ...
... bring them all aflote , For if all these fooles were brought into one barge , The bote should sinke , so sore should be the charge . The sayles are haused , a pleasant coole doth blowe , The fooles assemble as fast as they may drive ...
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... are staked and played for with equal avidity ; which brings to recollection ! the old French proverb : " Le jeu est le fils d'avarice et le pere du desespoir . " Or on the turf let jockeys † try , And G 2 OF GAMBLING FOOLS .
... are staked and played for with equal avidity ; which brings to recollection ! the old French proverb : " Le jeu est le fils d'avarice et le pere du desespoir . " Or on the turf let jockeys † try , And G 2 OF GAMBLING FOOLS .
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... bring an account of what is thought of me individually ; give me leave to ask what you imagine the world says of you and me conjointly . " " Upon my word Dr. I cannot pretend to say , " answered Jemmy . " Why then I'll tell you ...
... bring an account of what is thought of me individually ; give me leave to ask what you imagine the world says of you and me conjointly . " " Upon my word Dr. I cannot pretend to say , " answered Jemmy . " Why then I'll tell you ...
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... brings on beggary , and the loathsome confines of a gaol . † How often does the sanctified flatterer practise on the minds of bigots , and at the very moment when his pane- gyrics are passed on holy writ , his thoughts are perhaps down ...
... brings on beggary , and the loathsome confines of a gaol . † How often does the sanctified flatterer practise on the minds of bigots , and at the very moment when his pane- gyrics are passed on holy writ , his thoughts are perhaps down ...
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aëre Alexander Barclay Alice Pearce bard bells boast brain Canst thou cause certainly CHORUS TO FOOLS common sense conceived Crowds flock dame death decency disgrace display doth ev'ry exclaim eyes fam'd fame famous fashion feel folly FOOLISH fortune frequently give Goddess of Fools gold harlot's hath head hear Heaven honour Horace human idiot instance irreligion John Perrot justly King L'ENVOY labour ladle lady laugh lines live Lord mind nature naught ne'er never noble o'er pain passion pleasure POET POET'S CHORUS Praise of Folly present prove quod rage Rara Avis reader reason respect score scorn SECTION Shakspeare shame Ship of Fools smile SOLOMON speaking species stanza Stultifera Navis thee thine thing thro thyself tion tongue trim the boat truth vice Voltaire votaries wear wearers wisdom wise words youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 12 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Seite 133 - 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...
Seite 196 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Seite 245 - 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.
Seite 164 - ... 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!
Seite 164 - 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...
Seite xx - Quid verum atque decens euro et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum ; Condo et compono quae mox depromere possim.
Seite 207 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom ; and his chin, new reap'd, Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home ; He was perfumed like a milliner ; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box...
Seite 196 - For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings : How some have been depos'd; some slain in war...
Seite 171 - 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.