Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship of Fools, Aere PerenniusW. Miller, 1807 - 295 sidor |
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... naught have I further to add , but take my leave , under the firm conviction , that Sapientia prima est , stultitia caruisse . THE POET . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER . In the thirteenth and fourteenth vi . DEDICATION .
... naught have I further to add , but take my leave , under the firm conviction , that Sapientia prima est , stultitia caruisse . THE POET . ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER . In the thirteenth and fourteenth vi . DEDICATION .
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... naught , I ween ; Friends of the Bonnet Rouge can all o'ertop , And not with tongue alone their logic chop , Witness the annals of the Guillotine . L'ENVOY OF THE POET . Hold , hold , my Muse , deceitful books , farewell ; Till human ...
... naught , I ween ; Friends of the Bonnet Rouge can all o'ertop , And not with tongue alone their logic chop , Witness the annals of the Guillotine . L'ENVOY OF THE POET . Hold , hold , my Muse , deceitful books , farewell ; Till human ...
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... naught without such modes re- fin'd . * As a trifling effort of Boreas might elevate , or the rude push of a passenger cause a rent in the thin petticoat or chemise , whereby a total exposure would be inevita- ble , the expedient of ...
... naught without such modes re- fin'd . * As a trifling effort of Boreas might elevate , or the rude push of a passenger cause a rent in the thin petticoat or chemise , whereby a total exposure would be inevita- ble , the expedient of ...
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... Naught was the swelling Pad compar'd to this , Indeed , for beauty it was ne'er design'd ; But that a woman still might seem a miss , A single hour before she was confin'd . Tight let the Grecian tresses bind the head , And countless ...
... Naught was the swelling Pad compar'd to this , Indeed , for beauty it was ne'er design'd ; But that a woman still might seem a miss , A single hour before she was confin'd . Tight let the Grecian tresses bind the head , And countless ...
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... naught else has he to say : And fright the subjects on the king's highway , Who Beth'lem's guest + believe him by his chatter . * Not only in conversation do these hermaphrodites prove that ex nihi'o nihil fit , they have even sometimes ...
... naught else has he to say : And fright the subjects on the king's highway , Who Beth'lem's guest + believe him by his chatter . * Not only in conversation do these hermaphrodites prove that ex nihi'o nihil fit , they have even sometimes ...
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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
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Sida 2 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Sida 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...
Sida 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.
Sida 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!
Sida 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.
Sida 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...
Sida 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!
Sida 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.
Sida 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!
Sida 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...