Democritus in London: With the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and Robin Good-fellow, to which are Added Notes Festivous, EtcW. Pickering, 1852 - 312 pàgines |
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Pàgina 12
... England , unswerving justice and unsul- lied honour may be no more recognized in the dealings of man with man : -let the law of heartless selfishness , that " the end will justify the means , " be the adopted motto of politicians . 18 ...
... England , unswerving justice and unsul- lied honour may be no more recognized in the dealings of man with man : -let the law of heartless selfishness , that " the end will justify the means , " be the adopted motto of politicians . 18 ...
Pàgina 21
... England's Helicon . 1600 . Ladies , it has been said , are the very reverse of their mirrors - the latter reflecting without talking , and the former talking without reflecting . 37 It was once remarked to Lord Chesterfield , that man ...
... England's Helicon . 1600 . Ladies , it has been said , are the very reverse of their mirrors - the latter reflecting without talking , and the former talking without reflecting . 37 It was once remarked to Lord Chesterfield , that man ...
Pàgina 42
... England's measure full . Soon here the Pope will ( give him rope ! ) sit in pontifi- calibus , ( His gouty toe John Bull , ( grand sot ! ) devoutly ducking , shall he buss ? ) More shocking still ! and have a grill of heretics ( O fie ...
... England's measure full . Soon here the Pope will ( give him rope ! ) sit in pontifi- calibus , ( His gouty toe John Bull , ( grand sot ! ) devoutly ducking , shall he buss ? ) More shocking still ! and have a grill of heretics ( O fie ...
Pàgina 60
... England ever bred . ” . . —Aubrey's MS . in the Ashmolean Museum . A rare judicial mockery was the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh ! The public prosecutor was the unprincipled and ruffianly Attorney General Coke , who bullied the noble ...
... England ever bred . ” . . —Aubrey's MS . in the Ashmolean Museum . A rare judicial mockery was the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh ! The public prosecutor was the unprincipled and ruffianly Attorney General Coke , who bullied the noble ...
Pàgina 67
... England , from the Conquest to the time of Charles I. in Ballads . In Walton's Angler , Piscator having caught a chub , conducts Venator to an " honest alehouse where they would find a cleanly room , lavender in the windows , twenty ...
... England , from the Conquest to the time of Charles I. in Ballads . In Walton's Angler , Piscator having caught a chub , conducts Venator to an " honest alehouse where they would find a cleanly room , lavender in the windows , twenty ...
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Democritus in London. With the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and ... G. D.,George Daniel Visualització completa - 1852 |
Democritus in London: With the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and ... George Daniel Visualització completa - 1852 |
Democritus in London: With the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and ... George Daniel Visualització completa - 1852 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 176 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Pàgina 76 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history ; And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
Pàgina 297 - Tis a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend or to give in, But to beg or to borrow or get a man's own, 'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.
Pàgina 235 - London, to thee I do present the merry month of May; Let each true subject be content to hear me what I say: For from the top of conduit-head, as plainly may appear, I will both tell my name to you, and wherefore I came here. My name is Ralph, by due descent though not ignoble I, Yet far inferior to the flock of gracious grocery...
Pàgina 32 - What judgment I had, increases rather than diminishes ; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject ; to run them into verse, or to give them the other harmony of prose.
Pàgina 238 - Sir, this is a busy day with us, we cannot hear you ; it is Robin Hood's day. The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood : I pray you let them not.
Pàgina 290 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Pàgina 286 - In the morning, after the priest had given him the last sacraments, he said, "There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship, and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue.
Pàgina 21 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten.