Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship of Fools, Aere PerenniusW. Miller, 1807 - 295 Seiten |
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... Boasting of Fools 169 XLI . Of Ambitious Fools 174 XLII . Of Fools who boast theirAncestry and Pedigree : · 178 XLIII . XLIV . Of Fools who pursue unprofitable Study 184 Of Foolish Poets and Authors - 191 XLV . Of Imperial Fools · 198 ...
... Boasting of Fools 169 XLI . Of Ambitious Fools 174 XLII . Of Fools who boast theirAncestry and Pedigree : · 178 XLIII . XLIV . Of Fools who pursue unprofitable Study 184 Of Foolish Poets and Authors - 191 XLV . Of Imperial Fools · 198 ...
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... Boasting of Fools · XLI . Of Ambitious Fools - 164 169 · · 174 XLII . Pedigree XLIII . XLIV . Of Fools who boast theirAncestry and Of Fools who pursue unprofitable Study 184 Of Foolish Poets and Authors : 178 191 XLV . Of Imperial Fools ...
... Boasting of Fools · XLI . Of Ambitious Fools - 164 169 · · 174 XLII . Pedigree XLIII . XLIV . Of Fools who boast theirAncestry and Of Fools who pursue unprofitable Study 184 Of Foolish Poets and Authors : 178 191 XLV . Of Imperial Fools ...
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... boasted to the facetious counsellor Costello , that he had received five and twenty guineas , for speaking in a certain case , " And I " , said Mr. Costello , " received double that sum for holding my tongue in the same cause " .- But ...
... boasted to the facetious counsellor Costello , that he had received five and twenty guineas , for speaking in a certain case , " And I " , said Mr. Costello , " received double that sum for holding my tongue in the same cause " .- But ...
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... boast of mankind may always be said to verify on the ensuing morning these lines of Horace . -Corpus onustum Hesternis vitiis animum quoque prægravat unà . And speaking of the capability of the English in drinking , Shakspeare thus ...
... boast of mankind may always be said to verify on the ensuing morning these lines of Horace . -Corpus onustum Hesternis vitiis animum quoque prægravat unà . And speaking of the capability of the English in drinking , Shakspeare thus ...
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... boast religion's guise , Whose conduct slurs their functions in men's eyes , Who think the calling naught * . persists in so gross a violation of female decency , the whole of the property devised by me as aforesaid , and intended as a ...
... boast religion's guise , Whose conduct slurs their functions in men's eyes , Who think the calling naught * . persists in so gross a violation of female decency , the whole of the property devised by me as aforesaid , and intended as a ...
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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...