Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship of Fools, Aere PerenniusW. Miller, 1807 - 295 pàgines |
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Pàgina xvi
... causes which induced me to compose the ensuing sections : was situated near the border of the moon ; and that the region was inhabited by the spirits of ideots , silly per- sons , and infants who died without receiving the bap- tismal ...
... causes which induced me to compose the ensuing sections : was situated near the border of the moon ; and that the region was inhabited by the spirits of ideots , silly per- sons , and infants who died without receiving the bap- tismal ...
Pàgina xix
... cause him bide behinde ; The winde riseth , and is like the sayle to teare , Eche one enforceth the anker up to winde , The sea swelleth by planetes well I finde . These obscure cloudes threaten us tempest : All are not in bed which ...
... cause him bide behinde ; The winde riseth , and is like the sayle to teare , Eche one enforceth the anker up to winde , The sea swelleth by planetes well I finde . These obscure cloudes threaten us tempest : All are not in bed which ...
Pàgina xx
... , firm in the sacred cause , thou mayest act in unison with myself , and henceforth exclaim , Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo , et omnis in hoc sum . THE TABLE OF CONTENTS . I. II . Section . XX PREFATORY DISCOURSE .
... , firm in the sacred cause , thou mayest act in unison with myself , and henceforth exclaim , Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo , et omnis in hoc sum . THE TABLE OF CONTENTS . I. II . Section . XX PREFATORY DISCOURSE .
Pàgina xxii
... Cause Of Fools that know , and are instrumental to , their Wives ' Inconstancy 66 99 · 102 106 XXVI . Of Fools that are Passionate at Trifles XXVII . Of Fools who rely on the stability of For- tune 110 XXVIII . Of Foolish Scoffers and ...
... Cause Of Fools that know , and are instrumental to , their Wives ' Inconstancy 66 99 · 102 106 XXVI . Of Fools that are Passionate at Trifles XXVII . Of Fools who rely on the stability of For- tune 110 XXVIII . Of Foolish Scoffers and ...
Pàgina xxvi
... causes which induced me to compose the ensuing sections : was situated near the border of the moon ; and that the region was inhabited by the spirits of ideots , silly per- sons , and infants who died without receiving the bap- tismal ...
... causes which induced me to compose the ensuing sections : was situated near the border of the moon ; and that the region was inhabited by the spirits of ideots , silly per- sons , and infants who died without receiving the bap- tismal ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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
Passatges populars
Pàgina 2 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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!
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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!
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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!
Pàgina 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...