 | Joseph Addison - 1899 - Počet stránok 264
...introduced; but, before that, lanterns hung before every tenth house had furnished '.he only illumination. " Prepare for death if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from home." — JOHNSON'S London, 220, 221. " Who has not heard the Scourerer's midnight fame? Who has not trembled... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1903 - Počet stránok 266
...introduced; but, before that, lanterns hung before every tenth house had furnished the only illumination. " Prepare for death if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from home." — JOHNSON'S London, 220, 221. " Who has not heard the Scourerer's midnight fame? Who has not trembled... | |
 | 1902 - Počet stránok 662
...some elegant retreat." How different is the life one may lead in such a place from that of London l Prepare for death if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from home. Some fiery fop, with new commission vain, Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man ; Some frolic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - Počet stránok 562
...wings; ' • On all thy hours security shall smile, And bless thine evening walk and morning toil. * , Prepare for death if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from homo. 225 Some fiery fop, with new commission vain, Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man; Some... | |
 | A. C. B. Brown - 1910 - Počet stránok 274
...to 70 feet, and by Trajan to 60. 1 1 8. silicem : the pavement. Cf. Johnson, London, 11. 220 ff. : Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from home. Some fiery fop with new commission vain, Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man, Some frolic... | |
 | Ada Earland - 1911 - Počet stránok 486
...bad money that I carry on purpose." J Dr. Johnson's verses were still apposite to London in 1782 : " Prepare for death if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from home." Strange that, although during the months between Opie's arrival in London and the opening of the Royal... | |
 | Edgar Vine Hall - 1912 - Počet stránok 264
...explained only by neglect or superstition. Dr. Johnson did not take to heart his lines in " London " :— " Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from home." He may have put it off from sheer indolence, but it is not unlikely he felt something of the common... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - Počet stránok 858
...upon its wings; On all thy hours security shall smile, And bless thine evening walk and morning toil. ot leap To hear that ye were fallen at last; to know That even our enemies, so oft employed Some fiery fop, with new commission vain, 228 Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man; Some frolic... | |
 | Hugh Stokes - 1917 - Počet stránok 506
...of humankind. When Dr. Johnson wrote his poem, entitled, London, he observed with perfect truth : " Prepare for death if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from home." A Lord Chancellor was deprived of his cash and what Mr. Wemmick was pleased to call " portable property,"... | |
 | Thomas Shadwell - 1927 - Počet stránok 600
...Interdum et ferro subitum grassator agit rem. Seventeen hundred years later we find the same tale 1 : Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from home. Some fiery fop, with new commission vain, Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man ; Some frolic... | |
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Prepare for death if here at night you roam, And sign your will before you sup from home. 
