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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Side 12
... 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 ...
Side 16
... 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 ...
Side 19
... 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 ...
Side 23
... 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 ...
Side 26
... thought the cause of poli- tical morality less desperate in the Syracuse of Dionysius than in the Athens of the Sophists . Half of each speech of Demosthenes is taken up with lamentations over the utter neglect shown to all that had ...
... thought the cause of poli- tical morality less desperate in the Syracuse of Dionysius than in the Athens of the Sophists . Half of each speech of Demosthenes is taken up with lamentations over the utter neglect shown to all that had ...
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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.