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 strán (strany) |
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... honor , or dis- honor is purchased by thy own actions . Though virtue give a ragged livery , she gives a golden cognizance : if her service make thee poor , blush not . Thy poverty may disadvantage thee , but not dishonor thee ...
... honor , or dis- honor is purchased by thy own actions . Though virtue give a ragged livery , she gives a golden cognizance : if her service make thee poor , blush not . Thy poverty may disadvantage thee , but not dishonor thee ...
Strana 16
... design , came in familiar contact with plebeians . Who has not read the story of the King and the Miller of Mansfield , and the nocturnal rambles of HONOR 30 -that blows out your brains , But pays 16 DEMOCRITUS IN LONDON .
... design , came in familiar contact with plebeians . Who has not read the story of the King and the Miller of Mansfield , and the nocturnal rambles of HONOR 30 -that blows out your brains , But pays 16 DEMOCRITUS IN LONDON .
Strana 17
... HONOR 30 -that blows out your brains , But pays his debts - the gambler's 31 gains ! England's Merry Monarch ? The true secret of kingly popularity lies in a good - humoured condescension , that can temporally discrown the monarch ...
... HONOR 30 -that blows out your brains , But pays his debts - the gambler's 31 gains ! England's Merry Monarch ? The true secret of kingly popularity lies in a good - humoured condescension , that can temporally discrown the monarch ...
Strana 31
... honor to the instruc- tions of his master , and not unfrequently has the master been blamed for the mis - behaviour of his pupil . Seneca ( see " Plutarch to Trajan " ) is reproached , and his fame still suffers for the vices of Nero ...
... honor to the instruc- tions of his master , and not unfrequently has the master been blamed for the mis - behaviour of his pupil . Seneca ( see " Plutarch to Trajan " ) is reproached , and his fame still suffers for the vices of Nero ...
Strana 35
... honor . The 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 ...
... honor . The 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 ...
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Strana 176 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 238 - Sir, this is a busy day with us, we cannot hear you ; it is Robin Hood's day. The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood : I pray you let them not.
Strana 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.
Strana 286 - In the morning, after the priest had given him the last sacraments, he said, "There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship, and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue.
Strana 21 - Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten.