 I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.  The British Essayists: The Spectator - Strana 158podľa Alexander Chalmers - 1802Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - Počet stránok 440
...tailor! "At my nativity," says Sir Thomas Browne, "my ascendant was the earthly sign of Scorpius ; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me." One would think that he (204) were anatomizing a tailor! save that to the latter's occupation, methinks,... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - Počet stránok 544
...their iniquitous conviction. Browne, like many of his day, was a firm believer in horoscopes — ' I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.' He was, however, perhaps a little in advance of some of his contemporaries ; at any rate, he recognised... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1913 - Počet stránok 660
...Nativity my Ascendant was the watery Sign of Scorpius i / was bom in the Planetary Hour of Saturn, and, 1 think, I have a Piece of that leaden Planet in me. I am No. 487. no way facetious, not disposed for the Mirth au</ Thursday. Galliardize of Company / yet in one... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - Počet stránok 374
...not match the Fancies of our sleeps. At my Nativity my Ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius ; I was born in the Planetary hour of Saturn, and I think...behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh my self awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - Počet stránok 364
...piece of that Leaden Planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize40 of company ; yet in one dream I can compose a whole...behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh my self awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1912 - Počet stránok 420
...not match the Fancies of our sleeps. At my Nativity, my Ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius ; I was born in the Planetary hour of Saturn, and I think...behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh my self awake at the conceits thereof : were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - Počet stránok 788
...not match the fancy of our sleeps. At my nativity, my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius ; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think...facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize [gallantry] of company ; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1913 - Počet stránok 624
...not match the fancies of our sleeps. At my nativity, my ascendant was the earthly sign of Scorpio. I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think...am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardise of company ; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend... | |
 | Emile Boutroux, Alois Riehl, Alfred Denis Godley - 1914 - Počet stránok 160
...their iniquitous conviction. Browne, like many of his day, was a firm believer in horoscopes — "I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me." He was, however, perhaps a little in advance of some of his contemporaries; at any rate, he recognised... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1914 - Počet stránok 608
...match with the fancies of our sleeps. ... I am no way facetious, nor disposed to mirth and galliardise of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole...behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would... | |
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