Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship of Fools, Aere PerenniusW. Miller, 1807 - 295 Seiten |
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... eyes , since he who hath tasted the delicious fruits of science , would never quit the Hesperian produce “ to prey on garbage . " Therefore naught have I further to add , but take my leave , under the firm conviction , that Sapientia ...
... eyes , since he who hath tasted the delicious fruits of science , would never quit the Hesperian produce “ to prey on garbage . " Therefore naught have I further to add , but take my leave , under the firm conviction , that Sapientia ...
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... eyes on that inexpressive physiognomy , upon that cap , adorned with lanky ass's ears , upon that tawdry mantle , together with those jingling bells and empty ladle , with- out proclaiming thee aloud , for that thou truly art , Queen of ...
... eyes on that inexpressive physiognomy , upon that cap , adorned with lanky ass's ears , upon that tawdry mantle , together with those jingling bells and empty ladle , with- out proclaiming thee aloud , for that thou truly art , Queen of ...
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... eye , to the disgrace of the writers , whose labours are well calculated to adorn an index expurgato- rius ; but this is not all , for our literary gentlemen ( as they term themselves ) not contented with their own de reliction , must ...
... eye , to the disgrace of the writers , whose labours are well calculated to adorn an index expurgato- rius ; but this is not all , for our literary gentlemen ( as they term themselves ) not contented with their own de reliction , must ...
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... eye to view the sight ; While stomach , taper waist , and contour round , Are visible thro ' cambric twin'd so tight . * It is absolutely impossible to walk the streets of Lon- don , without witnessing the truth of this remark ; as the ...
... eye to view the sight ; While stomach , taper waist , and contour round , Are visible thro ' cambric twin'd so tight . * It is absolutely impossible to walk the streets of Lon- don , without witnessing the truth of this remark ; as the ...
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... eye , The tinge vermilion with white lead conjoin'd , Fain would revive , while health's rose blooming dye , By dissipation long hath been parloin'd . Naked the arms , the shoulders too are bare , Lest calves and ancles blush men's eyes ...
... eye , The tinge vermilion with white lead conjoin'd , Fain would revive , while health's rose blooming dye , By dissipation long hath been parloin'd . Naked the arms , the shoulders too are bare , Lest calves and ancles blush men's eyes ...
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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...