 As apothecaries, we make new mixtures every day, pour out of one vessel into another; and as those old Romans robbed all the cities of the world, to set out their bad-sited Rome, we skim off the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers of their...  The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott - Pagina 294door Walter Scott - 1834Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Ferriar - 1798 - 334 pagina’s
...wits, pick the choicejlowers of their tilled gardens, to set out our own sterile plots.*'1 Again, " We weave the same web still, twist the same rope again and again."~t " Who made MAN, with powers which dart him from earth to heaven in a moment — that great,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1799 - 614 pagina’s
...as thofe old Romans robbed all the cities of the world, to let out their bad-fited Rome, we ikim off the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers of their tilled gardens, to fet out our own fterile plots." Again, " We weave the fame web (till, twift the fame rope again and... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pagina’s
...aliquid inventant, he doth not bar them to write, so that it be some new invention of their own ; but we weave the same web still, twist the same rope again and again ; or if it be a new invention, 'tis but some bauble or toy which idle fellows write, for as idle fellows... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1804 - 622 pagina’s
...aliquid inventant : he doth not bar them to write, so that it be some new invention of their own; but we weave the same web still, twist the same rope again and again: or, ifitbea new invention, 'tis but some bauble or toy which idle fellows write, for as idle fellows... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1806 - 626 pagina’s
...aliquid inveniant : he doth not bar them to write, so that it be some new invention of their own ; but we weave the same web still, twist the same rope again and again: or, if itbeanewjnvention, 'us but some bauble or .toy which idle fello\ves write, for as idle fellowes... | |
 | 1808 - 416 pagina’s
...other men's wits, piek the' choice flowers of their tilted gardens, to set out our own sterile plats; We weave the same web still, twist the same rope again and again." Introduction to the Anat. of Melancholy, page 7 ; fol. 1632. Now for Tristram Shandy. " Shall we for-ever... | |
 | John Ferriar - 1812 - 202 pagina’s
...as those old Romans robbed all the cities of the uorld, to set out their badsited Rome, we skim off the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers...tilled gardens, to set out our own sterile plots.*" Again, " We weave the same * Burton, p. 4. web still, twist the same rope again and again."* " Who... | |
 | John Ferriar - 1812 - 426 pagina’s
...as those old Romans robbed all the cities of the uorld, to set out their badsited Home, we skim off the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers of their tilled gardens, to set out our oivn sterile plots.*" Again, " We weave the same web still, twist the same rope again and again." *... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1821 - 612 pagina’s
...aliquid inveniant : he doth not bar them to write, so that it be some new invention of their own ; but we weave the same web still, twist the same rope again and again : or, if it be a new invention, 'tis but some bauble or toy which idle fellows write, for as idle fellows... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pagina’s
...their bad-sited Rome, we skim the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers of their till'd ple s children. Exactly, said TO STERNE. xix the same rope again and again." We cannot help wondering at the coolness with which... | |
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