Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship of Fools, Aere PerenniusW. Miller, 1807 - 295 pagini |
Din interiorul cărții
Rezultatele 1 - 5 din 18
Pagina 20
... 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 the effrontery to set themselves up for men of literature ...
... 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 the effrontery to set themselves up for men of literature ...
Pagina 45
... kings have a peculiar itch for plunder , which they gratify in the following manner : sup- pose , for instance , that a stonemason be the warden , you will never fail to see a scaffolding around the stee- ple , for then the church needs ...
... kings have a peculiar itch for plunder , which they gratify in the following manner : sup- pose , for instance , that a stonemason be the warden , you will never fail to see a scaffolding around the stee- ple , for then the church needs ...
Pagina 97
... king's chamber , he took a nail and an hammer , and nailed his ear to the door . " The tale then proceeds to relate , that the cries of Fouribon reaching his mother , she flew to the portal ; when , in the hurry of opening it , to learn ...
... king's chamber , he took a nail and an hammer , and nailed his ear to the door . " The tale then proceeds to relate , that the cries of Fouribon reaching his mother , she flew to the portal ; when , in the hurry of opening it , to learn ...
Pagina 106
... King Henry VIII . was very much addicted to passion , and was the first person who swore by God's wounds , now vulgarly termed zounds . In one of these fits of rage , he so far incensed Queen Elizabeth , that she ordered him into ...
... King Henry VIII . was very much addicted to passion , and was the first person who swore by God's wounds , now vulgarly termed zounds . In one of these fits of rage , he so far incensed Queen Elizabeth , that she ordered him into ...
Pagina 107
... King of Epirus , should not be omitted , whose occult science was vested in his toe ; whom Pliny saith , Pollicis in dextro pede tactu Lieno medebatur . Mark how his face , with ire first reddens , OF PASSIONATE FOOLS . 107.
... King of Epirus , should not be omitted , whose occult science was vested in his toe ; whom Pliny saith , Pollicis in dextro pede tactu Lieno medebatur . Mark how his face , with ire first reddens , OF PASSIONATE FOOLS . 107.
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
Stultifera Navis: Qua Ominum Mortalium Narratur Stultitia. The Modern Ship ... William Henry Ireland Vizualizare completă - 1807 |
Stultifera Navis: Qua Ominum Mortalium Narratur Stultitia. The Modern Ship ... William Henry Ireland Vizualizare completă - 1807 |
Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : the Modern Ship ... Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2020 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
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
Pasaje populare
Pagina 2 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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!
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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!
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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!
Pagina 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...