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 sider |
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... no more ! Let that content " Till nearer still the prospect grows Of the dark valley of repose , And in the arms of death we close A life well - spent . Unlatch my little garden gate . Putting on his conjuring DEMOCRITUS IN LONDON . 5.
... no more ! Let that content " Till nearer still the prospect grows Of the dark valley of repose , And in the arms of death we close A life well - spent . Unlatch my little garden gate . Putting on his conjuring DEMOCRITUS IN LONDON . 5.
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... death the support and confidence of his countrymen was a fool , a sycophant , a peculator and a poltroon . . . 50 The Delphic Oracle was never so prophetic as when it responded to the question of Chorophon , that " Socrates was the ...
... death the support and confidence of his countrymen was a fool , a sycophant , a peculator and a poltroon . . . 50 The Delphic Oracle was never so prophetic as when it responded to the question of Chorophon , that " Socrates was the ...
Side 35
... death of the Roman was noble ; that of the Athenian nobler still . 68 Is fickle fortune cross or kind , Or foul or fair the wanton wind , From envious tongues and lowering looks I turn to my best friends my books . With leisure that no ...
... death of the Roman was noble ; that of the Athenian nobler still . 68 Is fickle fortune cross or kind , Or foul or fair the wanton wind , From envious tongues and lowering looks I turn to my best friends my books . With leisure that no ...
Side 44
... death of Haydon ) would have stood between genius and despair . Upon this sad subject we might pon- der till the mind " burst with thinking . " To Sir Robert Peel belongs the deep consolation of having relieved Hay- don in his last ...
... death of Haydon ) would have stood between genius and despair . Upon this sad subject we might pon- der till the mind " burst with thinking . " To Sir Robert Peel belongs the deep consolation of having relieved Hay- don in his last ...
Side 73
... death - bed . He believed that he had received intimation from the Spirit that Cromwell should recover ; and when his ex- pectation was not verified , on the Protector's death , he thus impiously addressed the Almighty , " Thou hast de ...
... death - bed . He believed that he had received intimation from the Spirit that Cromwell should recover ; and when his ex- pectation was not verified , on the Protector's death , he thus impiously addressed the Almighty , " Thou hast de ...
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Democritus in London: With the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and ... George Daniel Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1852 |
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Democritus in London: With the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of Motley and ... George Daniel Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1852 |
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Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 32 - I think myself as vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul, excepting only my memory, which is not impaired to any great degree; and if I lose not more of it, I have no great reason to complain. What...
Side 35 - Lives of great men all remind us We may make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, may take heart again.
Side 32 - Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease.
Side 210 - Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman.