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 4
... Ye are still more wise , more good Solacers of my solitude ! And doubly dear ! 7 " Who , having claw'd or cuddled into bondage The thing misnamed a husband- " Tobin . No duns without , no quacks within , I saw DEMOCRITUS IN LONDON .
... Ye are still more wise , more good Solacers of my solitude ! And doubly dear ! 7 " Who , having claw'd or cuddled into bondage The thing misnamed a husband- " Tobin . No duns without , no quacks within , I saw DEMOCRITUS IN LONDON .
Pàgina 7
... 9 Democritus , in order to calculate the nature of things , was continually looking on a brass basin , by which practice he is said to have blinded himself . He rang the city this quaint peal- " Give the DEMOCRITUS IN LONDON . 7.
... 9 Democritus , in order to calculate the nature of things , was continually looking on a brass basin , by which practice he is said to have blinded himself . He rang the city this quaint peal- " Give the DEMOCRITUS IN LONDON . 7.
Pàgina 9
... thing as he should doe : but on the contrarie , with tur- bulent conceptions , wavering and inconstant motions , bro- ken sleepe , a sick braine , and an emptie soacked head , like a withred cucumber , he vainely like a blind mill horse ...
... thing as he should doe : but on the contrarie , with tur- bulent conceptions , wavering and inconstant motions , bro- ken sleepe , a sick braine , and an emptie soacked head , like a withred cucumber , he vainely like a blind mill horse ...
Pàgina 15
... things ! ) will laugh at the wisdom of theirs . Our aspirations are as big as the genius that came out of the tin kettle in the Arabian Tale , and their realisation will be as small as that same genius when he was soldered up in the ...
... things ! ) will laugh at the wisdom of theirs . Our aspirations are as big as the genius that came out of the tin kettle in the Arabian Tale , and their realisation will be as small as that same genius when he was soldered up in the ...
Pàgina 16
... thing moderately good , or said any thing immoderately bad , the doing and the saying were not blown by the trumpet of a penny - a- liner . It was no remarkable event for a prince to visit a peasant , to partake of his frugal fare ...
... thing moderately good , or said any thing immoderately bad , the doing and the saying were not blown by the trumpet of a penny - a- liner . It was no remarkable event for a prince to visit a peasant , to partake of his frugal fare ...
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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.