Democritus in London: With the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and Robin Good-Fellow, to which are Added Notes Festivous EtcWilliam Pickering, 1852 - 312 pàgines |
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... Thought and Feeling , by the Author of Visiting my Relations . " Fcp . 8vo . 6s . [ Just published . Essays written in the Intervals of Business . Fifth Edition . Fcp . 8vo . 5s . The Six following by the same Author , Companions of my ...
... Thought and Feeling , by the Author of Visiting my Relations . " Fcp . 8vo . 6s . [ Just published . Essays written in the Intervals of Business . Fifth Edition . Fcp . 8vo . 5s . The Six following by the same Author , Companions of my ...
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... thoughts were wont to reach the starres , but now stumble at stones . He was his Fa- ther's dotage , and his Mam's darling . He did of late swim in gluttony , but now is pinched with poverty . He was wont to devise what to eat , and is ...
... thoughts were wont to reach the starres , but now stumble at stones . He was his Fa- ther's dotage , and his Mam's darling . He did of late swim in gluttony , but now is pinched with poverty . He was wont to devise what to eat , and is ...
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... thought a hasty decision not so dangerous as a vexatious delay ; and if sometimes he proved a little " fast , " the hearts of his suitors were not made sick by hope long deferred . Royalty ( in this sense ) has ceased to be a reality ...
... thought a hasty decision not so dangerous as a vexatious delay ; and if sometimes he proved a little " fast , " the hearts of his suitors were not made sick by hope long deferred . Royalty ( in this sense ) has ceased to be a reality ...
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... Thought meets thought , ere from the lips it part , And each warm wish springs mutual from the heart , This sure is bliss , if bliss on earth there be- " But what bliss can result from antagonistic tempers and tastes ; from society ...
... Thought meets thought , ere from the lips it part , And each warm wish springs mutual from the heart , This sure is bliss , if bliss on earth there be- " But what bliss can result from antagonistic tempers and tastes ; from society ...
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... thought themselves the happier , when they carried Mr. Herbert's blessing back with them to their labour . " 40 Diogenes struck the father when the son swore , be- cause he taught him no better . . . . 41 Like a chariot is the soul ...
... thought themselves the happier , when they carried Mr. Herbert's blessing back with them to their labour . " 40 Diogenes struck the father when the son swore , be- cause he taught him no better . . . . 41 Like a chariot is the soul ...
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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 ... 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 |
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Pàgina 286 - 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 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.
Pàgina 230 - And to the end of time the tales shall ne'er be done Of Scarlock, George-a-Green, and Much, the miller's son ; Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many a sermon made In praise of Robin Hood, his outlaws, and their trade.
Pàgina 231 - 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 76 - Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie interr'd Lov'd the church so well, and gave so largely to't, They thought it should have canopied their bones Till dooms-day. But all things have their end; Churches and cities, which have diseases like to men, Must have like death that we have.
Pàgina 234 - 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 141 - Fond fool ! six feet shall serve for all thy store, And he that cares for most shall find no more.
Pàgina 23 - And his most holy life was such, that it begot such reverence to God, and to him, that they thought themselves the happier when they carried Mr. Herbert's blessing back with them to their labour.
Pàgina 282 - 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 50 - ... of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such...