 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pagina’s
...into another ; and as the Romans robbed all the cities in the world to set out their bad-sited Rome, we skim the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers of their till'd gardens, to set out our own sterile plots. We weave the same web, still twist the same rope... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pagina’s
...into another ; and as the Romans robbed all the cities in the world to set out their bad-sited Rome, we skim the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers of their till'd gardens, to set out our own sterile plots. We weave the same web, still twist the same rope... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1825 - 260 pagina’s
...into another; and as the Romans robbed all the cities in the world to -- set out their bad-sited Rome, we skim the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers of their tilled gardens, to set out our otvn sterile plots. We weave the same web, still twist the same rope again and again." We cannot help... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pagina’s
...in the world to set out their badKoine, we skim the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice irs pride and pomp disguise ; Deeds of ill sort, au a mischievous e the same web, still twist the same торе again and again/ •.в follows: ' Shall we forever make... | |
 | Laurence Sterne, Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - 542 pagina’s
...into another; and as the Romans robbed all the cities in the world to set out their bad-sited Rome, we skim the cream of other men's ,wits, pick the choice...of their tilled gardens, to set out our own sterile spots. We weave the same web, still twist the same rope again and again." We cannot help wondering... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 pagina’s
...men's wits, pick the choice flower* of their tilled gardens, to set out our own sterile plots. W» •weave the same web, still twist the same rope again...coolness with which Sterne could transfer to his own work s» eloquent a tirade against the very arts which he was practising Much has been said about the right... | |
 | William Leete Stone - 1834 - 266 pagina’s
...greater offence to steal dead men's labours than their clothes, what shall become of most writers ? Thus we weave the same web still, —twist the same rope again and again,—as a good housewife out of divers fleeces weaves one piece of cloth, a bee gathers wax and... | |
 | Julien-Joseph Virey - 1837 - 202 pagina’s
...as those old Romans rob'd 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 till'd gardens to set out our own sterile plots. Castrant alias, ut libros suos, per se graciles, alieno... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1838 - 762 pagina’s
...aliquid inveniant : he doth not bar them to write, so that it be some new invention of their own : but his opinion of Surius; so doth Colerus, cap. 12. lib. 12. lib de : or, if it be a new invention, 'tis but some bauble or toy which idJe fellows write, for as idle fellows... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1847 - 702 pagina’s
...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...their tilled gardens to set out our own sterile plots. Castrant olios ut libros suos per se graciles alieno adipe suffarciant (so "Jovius inveighs.) They... | |
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