Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship of Fools, Aere PerenniusW. Miller, 1807 - 295 ページ |
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... matter of serious regret , that the vain folly of old persons is far more detrimental to the rising generation than to themselves . With what de- gree of confidence , let me ask , can the preceptor and in- structor produce as an example ...
... matter of serious regret , that the vain folly of old persons is far more detrimental to the rising generation than to themselves . With what de- gree of confidence , let me ask , can the preceptor and in- structor produce as an example ...
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... matter for more melancholy reflection , than to witness this dotage in men who , during the vi- gour of manhood , ennobled themselves ; a striking instance of which is recorded in the person of the renowned Ed- Aged impotence ...
... matter for more melancholy reflection , than to witness this dotage in men who , during the vi- gour of manhood , ennobled themselves ; a striking instance of which is recorded in the person of the renowned Ed- Aged impotence ...
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... matter is this , I'm only one shade from the regions of bliss ; For had my green coat been but darker one dye , ' Twould have match'd with the prince's as I am like I. OF · · SECTION VI . FOOLISH COUNSELLORS , JUDGES 22 THE SHIP OF FOOLS .
... matter is this , I'm only one shade from the regions of bliss ; For had my green coat been but darker one dye , ' Twould have match'd with the prince's as I am like I. OF · · SECTION VI . FOOLISH COUNSELLORS , JUDGES 22 THE SHIP OF FOOLS .
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... this account , they make so light of publicity in matters of love ; as they delicately term such gross dereliction from conjugal duties . L'ENVOY OF THE POET . Instil sage precepts in the OF FOOLISH MODERN WIVES . 29.
... this account , they make so light of publicity in matters of love ; as they delicately term such gross dereliction from conjugal duties . L'ENVOY OF THE POET . Instil sage precepts in the OF FOOLISH MODERN WIVES . 29.
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... matter is this , I'm only one shade from the regions of bliss ; For had my green coat been but darker one dye , ' Twould have match'd with the prince's as I am like I. OF FOOLISH · SECTION VI . COUNSELLORS , MEN OF 22 THE SHIP OF FOOLS .
... matter is this , I'm only one shade from the regions of bliss ; For had my green coat been but darker one dye , ' Twould have match'd with the prince's as I am like I. OF FOOLISH · SECTION VI . COUNSELLORS , MEN OF 22 THE SHIP OF FOOLS .
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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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223 ページ - 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.
146 ページ - ... 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!
196 ページ - 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.
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176 ページ - 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!
153 ページ - 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.
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