Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship of Fools, Aere PerenniusW. Miller, 1807 - 295 sidor |
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... period , as the trash that was advertised as coming piping - hot from the Ger- man school ; in short , we have been inundated with Gal- lic philosophy , morality , & c . and the German extrava- ganza , both literary and dramatic . Li ...
... period , as the trash that was advertised as coming piping - hot from the Ger- man school ; in short , we have been inundated with Gal- lic philosophy , morality , & c . and the German extrava- ganza , both literary and dramatic . Li ...
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... periods has the inordinate gratification of this sense been considered by its votaries . The famed Anacreon , greedily indulging his appetite , was choked with a grape stone . Heliogabalus delighted in feasting on the tongues of ...
... periods has the inordinate gratification of this sense been considered by its votaries . The famed Anacreon , greedily indulging his appetite , was choked with a grape stone . Heliogabalus delighted in feasting on the tongues of ...
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... periods , and in all countries , have proved themselves deficient in establish- ing their precepts by example . From hence has originated all those divisions in religious opinions , which are no where so prevalent as in England , where ...
... periods , and in all countries , have proved themselves deficient in establish- ing their precepts by example . From hence has originated all those divisions in religious opinions , which are no where so prevalent as in England , where ...
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... periods , he was so far the slave of idleness , as rather to remain in obscurity at some low public house , while a shilling was left , than embrace the proffered good which presented itself ; and it is recorded of him , that he would ...
... periods , he was so far the slave of idleness , as rather to remain in obscurity at some low public house , while a shilling was left , than embrace the proffered good which presented itself ; and it is recorded of him , that he would ...
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... period , the childish imagination wantons with playful frivolity ; it resists the curb of restraint , as far as relates to the operations of the mind , solely engrossed by the trifling gratifications , result- ing from play and baubles ...
... period , the childish imagination wantons with playful frivolity ; it resists the curb of restraint , as far as relates to the operations of the mind , solely engrossed by the trifling gratifications , result- ing from play and baubles ...
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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...