Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : The Modern Ship of Fools, Aere PerenniusW. Miller, 1807 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina v
... wisdom , or tend to warp thee from the pursuits of everlasting truth . To thee , O Phoenix ! or to adopt the words of Solomon , " Beloved of my soul , " do I send * It is obvious , that our Poet did not take the honest man of the Cynic ...
... wisdom , or tend to warp thee from the pursuits of everlasting truth . To thee , O Phoenix ! or to adopt the words of Solomon , " Beloved of my soul , " do I send * It is obvious , that our Poet did not take the honest man of the Cynic ...
Pagina vi
... wisdom is thy pursuit , and joys unperishable are the at- tendants on those who struggle in order to its attainment : to urge thee to proceed in thy ca- reer with steady determination , would merely hold me up to ridicule in thine eyes ...
... wisdom is thy pursuit , and joys unperishable are the at- tendants on those who struggle in order to its attainment : to urge thee to proceed in thy ca- reer with steady determination , would merely hold me up to ridicule in thine eyes ...
Pagina xiv
... wisdom ; from thy brow dispel that look of austerity , and let the dimpled smile of mirth assume its playful em- porium . Yes : yield thyself to me ; and hence- forth learn to taste unfading pleasures . " Thus having spoke , Folly ...
... wisdom ; from thy brow dispel that look of austerity , and let the dimpled smile of mirth assume its playful em- porium . Yes : yield thyself to me ; and hence- forth learn to taste unfading pleasures . " Thus having spoke , Folly ...
Pagina xix
... us tempest : All are not in bed which shall have ill rest . And now , friend reader , will I close these prefatory lines , supplicating the interposition of Wisdom in thy favour , that her bright ra- PREFATORY DISCOURSE . xix.
... us tempest : All are not in bed which shall have ill rest . And now , friend reader , will I close these prefatory lines , supplicating the interposition of Wisdom in thy favour , that her bright ra- PREFATORY DISCOURSE . xix.
Pagina xx
... Wisdom in thy favour , that her bright ra- diance may so expand around thee , as to dis- sipate from thy reason the noxious vapours of ignorance and folly , urging thee to discard bells , cap , and ladle ; assuming in their stead the ...
... Wisdom in thy favour , that her bright ra- diance may so expand around thee , as to dis- sipate from thy reason the noxious vapours of ignorance and folly , urging thee to discard bells , cap , and ladle ; assuming in their stead the ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Stultifera Navis: Qua Ominum Mortalium Narratur Stultitia. The Modern Ship ... William Henry Ireland Volledige weergave - 1807 |
Stultifera Navis: Qua Ominum Mortalium Narratur Stultitia. The Modern Ship ... William Henry Ireland Volledige weergave - 1807 |
Stultifera Navis: Qua Omnium Mortalium Narratur Stultitia : the Modern Ship ... Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2020 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Alexander Barclay attainment bard boast brain certainly CHORUS TO FOOLS class of fools common sense conceive Crowds flock curious fool dames death disgrace display doth ev'ry exclaim eyes fam'd fame famous fandango dance favours fear feel fidatevi folly FOOLISH fortune frequently gentlemen give gold hath head hear Heaven HERE'S honour human ideot instance John Perrot joys justly King L'ENVOY labour lady lines live Lord mind nature naught ne'er never noble o'er pain passion pleasure POET POET'S CHORUS Pope Innocent IV possessed present propensity prove Rara Avis reason render score SECTION Semiramis senseless Shakspeare shame silly slave sloth SOLOMON speaking species Stultifera Navis thee thine thing thyself tion trim the boat truth usury vanity vice vile Voltaire votaries whip wife wisdom wise words wretch writer youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 2 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Pagina 115 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Pagina 223 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Pagina 146 - ... we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity; fools, by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on : An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
Pagina 196 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? • no. Is it insensible, then? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it: honour is a mere scutcheon: — and so ends my catechism.
Pagina 146 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Pagina 176 - Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind 'away: O, that that earth which kept the world in awe Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw!— But soft!
Pagina 153 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Pagina 175 - To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Pagina 87 - And styl'd of war, as well as peace. (So some rats, of amphibious nature, Are either for the land or water) : But here our authors make a doubt, Whether he were more wise or stout...