 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
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 pagina’s
...all the cities in the world to set out their bad-sited Rome, we skim the cream of other men's »its, pick the choice flowers of their tilled gardens, to set out our own sterile plots. We weav« (he same web, gtill twist the same rope a«ain and again." We cannot help wondering nt the coolness... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1847 - 688 pagina’s
...cities of the world, to set out their bad-sited Rome, we skim off the cream of other men's wits, pfk am тог-eat1, lepidam puel/am ct quam ÍB facile ames, a comely woman, hav Cmtrmt olios ul libros suos per se graciles alieno adipe sujfarciant (so "Jovius imeighe.) They lard... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1850 - 728 pagina’s
...as those old Romans robbed all the cities of the world, to set out their bad-sited Rome, we skim off us saith in his book de Рис/ore, " bashfulness...or helps," such men I am sure it hurts. If it pro Castrant alias ut libros suos per se graciles alieno adipe suffarciant (so 74Jovius inYeighe.) They... | |
 | 1853 - 710 pagina’s
...own. " As apothecaries, we make new mixtures every day, pour out of one vessel into another, skim off the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers...their tilled gardens to set out our own sterile plots. ' Castrant alios, ut libros suos per se graciles alieno adipe suffUrciant.' " In the second place,... | |
 | Lizzie R. Torrey - 1856 - 362 pagina’s
...And as the old Romans robbed all the cities of the world to set out their badsited Home, we skim off1 the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers of their gardens, to set out our own sterile plots." EDWIN. With great pleasure, Maleia, I engage to attend... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 426 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...same web, still twist the same rope again and again." Sterne wrote, " Was I in a condition to stipulate with death, as I am this moment with my apothecary,... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1850 - 788 pagina’s
...old Вотапя robbed all the cities of the world, to set out their bad-sited Rome, we skim off tho cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers...their tilled gardens to set out our own sterile plots. Castrant alios ut libros suos per se дгясиез alieno adipe sujfarciant (so * Jovius inveighs).... | |
 | 1856 - 502 pagina’s
...as those old Romaus 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...tilled gardens, to set out our own sterile plots." Again: — " We weave the same web still, twist the same rope again and again." » We have selected... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1873 - 418 pagina’s
...those old Bomans robbed all ' the cities of the world, to set out their bad-sited Borne, 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 web still, twist the same rope again • and again.' STERNE. — ' Who... | |
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