 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 620 pagina’s
...volumes on volumes lie, And planetary schemes amuse the eye. The sage, in velvet chair, here lolls at ease, To promise future health for present fees; Then, as from tripod, solemn shame reveals, And what the stars know nothing of, foretels. One asks ho\v soon Panthea may he won,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 612 pagina’s
...on volumes lie, And planetary schemes amuse the eye. The sage, in velvet chair, here lolls at case, To promise future health for present fees; Then, as from tripod, solemn shame reveals, And what the stars know nothing of, foretels. One asks how soon Panthea may be won,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 292 pagina’s
...volumes on volumes lie, And planetary schemes amuse the eye. The sage, in velvet chair, here lolls at ease, To promise future health for present fees....shams reveals, And what the stars know nothing of, foretels. One asks how soon Panthea may be won, And longs to feel the marriage fetters on : Others,... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1860 - 352 pagina’s
...volumes by volumes lye, And planetary schemes amuse the eye. The sage, in velvet chair, here lolls at ease, To promise future health for present fees....shams reveals, And what the stars know nothing of reveals. " One asks how soon Fanthea may be won, And longs to feel the marriage fetters on ; Others,... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 pagina’s
...globes, volumes on volumes lie, And planetary schemes amuse the eye. The sage in velvet chair here lolls at ease, To promise future health for present fees...shams reveals, And what the stars know nothing of foretells. Our manufactures now they merely sell, And their true value treacherously tell ; Nay, they... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 744 pagina’s
...globes, volumes on volumes lie, And planetary schemes amuse the eye. The sage in velvet chair here lolls at ease, To promise future health for present fees,...shams reveals, And what the stars know nothing of, iortells One asks how soon Pauthca may 'be won, ind longs to feel the marriage fetters ou. Others,... | |
 | John Ashton - 1887 - 396 pagina’s
...owing to the excessive charges of the apothecaries. The institution did not last very long. 'Gold. u2 Then, as from Tripod, solemn shams reveals, And what the Stars know nothing of, reveals." Medicine in the last century was very crude. Bleeding and purging were matters of course... | |
 | Graham Everitt - 1888 - 444 pagina’s
...volumes on volumes lye, And planetary schemes amuse the eye. The sage, in velvet chair, here lolls at ease, To promise future health for present fees;...shams reveals, And what the stars know nothing of, foretels." But the physician who comes in for the largest share of satire is Dr. William Gibbons- of... | |
 | 1897 - 318 pagina’s
...volumes on volumes lie, And planetary schemes amuse the eye. The sage, in velvet chair, here lolls at ease. To promise future health for present fees....shams reveals. And what the stars know nothing of foretells. — SAMUEL GARTH. A Doctor's Motto •~7~T DOCTOR, who, for want of skill, /Tj Did sometimes... | |
 | Sir Samuel Garth, Wilhelm Josef Leicht - 1905 - 610 pagina’s
...Sage, in Velvet Chair, here lolls at Ease, To promise future Health for present Fees. 135 Then, äs from Tripod, solemn Shams reveals, And what the Stars know nothing of, foretels. One asks how soon Panthea may be won, And longs to feel the Marriage Fetters on. Others,... | |
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The sage, in velvet chair, here lolls at ease, To promise future health for present fees. Then, as from tripod, solemn shams reveals, And what the stars know nothing of, foretels. 
