The Laughing Philosopher: Being the Entire Works of Momus, Jester of Olympus; Democritus, the Merry Philosopher of Greece, and Their Illustrious Disciples, Ben Jonson, Butler, Swift, Gay, Joseph Miller, Esq. Churchill, Voltaire, Foote, Steevens, Wolcot, Sheridan, Curran, Colman, and OthersSherwood, Jones, and Company ... John Anderson, Jun. Edinburgh; J. Cumming, Dublin; and to be had of all dealers in classical literature., 1825 - 767페이지 |
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... sure ? THIS BOOK IS THEREFORE Worth TWENTY THOUSAND A - YEAR ; and its possessor y look down with pity on the man , however wealthy , who nevertheless lacks this are . Before breakfast , it will create good spirits for the day ; after ...
... sure ? THIS BOOK IS THEREFORE Worth TWENTY THOUSAND A - YEAR ; and its possessor y look down with pity on the man , however wealthy , who nevertheless lacks this are . Before breakfast , it will create good spirits for the day ; after ...
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... sure , ' was the Prince Regent's on Tuesday , and how can it be his brother's to - day , unless they are twins ? " ' THE LITERARY BREAKFAST . As lately a sage on fine ham was repasting , ( Tho ' for breakfast too savoury I ween ) , He ...
... sure , ' was the Prince Regent's on Tuesday , and how can it be his brother's to - day , unless they are twins ? " ' THE LITERARY BREAKFAST . As lately a sage on fine ham was repasting , ( Tho ' for breakfast too savoury I ween ) , He ...
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... Sure Nobody's a wicked devil , The author of consummate evil ; In breaking dishes , basins , glasses , In stealing , hiding - he surpasses . Behold the punch - bowl crack'd around , For weeks the ladle was not found ; How crack'd ...
... Sure Nobody's a wicked devil , The author of consummate evil ; In breaking dishes , basins , glasses , In stealing , hiding - he surpasses . Behold the punch - bowl crack'd around , For weeks the ladle was not found ; How crack'd ...
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... sure your wife Must love you as she does her life . WHITE - WASHING GENIUS . A wretched artist was talking pompously about " I am decorating the ceiling of his saloon . white - washing it , " said he , " and in a short time I shall ...
... sure your wife Must love you as she does her life . WHITE - WASHING GENIUS . A wretched artist was talking pompously about " I am decorating the ceiling of his saloon . white - washing it , " said he , " and in a short time I shall ...
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... sure in heaven , " replied the doctor . " The more fool you , " rejoined the inquirer , " for you'll never go there to enjoy it . " AN ELEGANT COMPLIMENT . Garrick once asked Rich , the manager of the theatre , how much he thought ...
... sure in heaven , " replied the doctor . " The more fool you , " rejoined the inquirer , " for you'll never go there to enjoy it . " AN ELEGANT COMPLIMENT . Garrick once asked Rich , the manager of the theatre , how much he thought ...
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403 페이지 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and
403 페이지 - it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious perriwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings ; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise : I would have such a fellow whipped for out-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it.
358 페이지 - Alas ! poor Vorick !—I knew him, Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest ; of most excellent fancy : he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips, that I have kissed I know not how oft.. Where he your gibes now
325 페이지 - begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch. The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words. That aged years play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
305 페이지 - running stream they dare na cross, But ere the key-stane she could make. The fient a tail she had to shake . For Nannie, far before the rest. Hard upon noble Maggie prest, And flew at Tarn wi 1 furious ettle ; But little wist she Maggie's mettle— Ae spring brought off her master hale,
96 페이지 - With leather girdle brac'd for all might see the bottle necks Still dangling at his waist. Thus all through merry Islington These gambols he did play, And till he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay. And there he threw the wash about On both sides of the way, Just like
305 페이지 - taks the road in, As ne'er poor sinner was abroad in. The wind blew as 'twad blawn its last ; The rattling showers rose on the blast ; The speedy gleams the darkness swallow'd ; Loud, deep, and lang the thunder bellow'd : That night, a child might understand, The ileil had business on his
305 페이지 - As bees bizz out wi' angry fyke, When plundering herds assail their byke ; As open pussie's mortal foes, When, pop ! she starts before their nose ; As eager runs the market crowd, When, " Catch the thief!" resounds aloud ; So Maggie runs, the witches follow, Wi' mony an eldritch skreech and hollow.
351 페이지 - And thereby hangs a tale. When I did hear The motley fool thus moral on the time, That fools should be so deep-contemplative ; My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, And I did laugh, sans intermission, A worthy fool ! Motley's the only wear.* An hour by his
109 페이지 - beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men arc glad of his company ; when he comes into a house, he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way up-stairs to a visit. I must not omit,