Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship of Fools, Aere PerenniusW. Miller, 1807 - 295 Seiten |
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... conceive that he is of a bastard breed ; and in despite of his estate and rank , merely descends to that natural standard , from which a variety of circumstances had raised him , only to render his real insignificance and folly the more ...
... conceive that he is of a bastard breed ; and in despite of his estate and rank , merely descends to that natural standard , from which a variety of circumstances had raised him , only to render his real insignificance and folly the more ...
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... conceive it a just retort for the deprivations thus experienced at the shrine of fortune . * Avarice being the incentive to gaming , a gambler necessarily carries with him , not only his own bane but that of others ; for we may say with ...
... conceive it a just retort for the deprivations thus experienced at the shrine of fortune . * Avarice being the incentive to gaming , a gambler necessarily carries with him , not only his own bane but that of others ; for we may say with ...
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... conceive , He struts knight fam'd of Reason's chivalry ; Men at his weakness laugh but in their sleeve , Despise the fool and all his vanity * . * Poets have ever been deemed the slaves of vanity ; nor should we omit Musicians and ...
... conceive , He struts knight fam'd of Reason's chivalry ; Men at his weakness laugh but in their sleeve , Despise the fool and all his vanity * . * Poets have ever been deemed the slaves of vanity ; nor should we omit Musicians and ...
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... conceive that there would be no difficulty in bringing Christians to the perpetration of any crime in the service of Croesus . Yet , let such fools remember , Remember well this sterling rule , The spendthrift is not G 2 OF USURIOUS ...
... conceive that there would be no difficulty in bringing Christians to the perpetration of any crime in the service of Croesus . Yet , let such fools remember , Remember well this sterling rule , The spendthrift is not G 2 OF USURIOUS ...
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... , whose feelings can only be con- ceived by those that have suffered a similar torture . Such I conceive to be one of the insufferable miseries of hu- man life . Next , to ensure the brilliant sortie , Miss strikes OF FOOLISH TUTORS . 87.
... , whose feelings can only be con- ceived by those that have suffered a similar torture . Such I conceive to be one of the insufferable miseries of hu- man life . Next , to ensure the brilliant sortie , Miss strikes OF FOOLISH TUTORS . 87.
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 2 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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!
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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!
Seite 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.
Seite 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!
Seite 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...