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 Others |
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... play of ideas takes place , and this excites a play of the powers of life . An Indian , at table with an Englishman , at Surat , expressed his surprise by loud exclamations , on seeing a vast quantity of froth ooze out of a bottle of ...
... play of ideas takes place , and this excites a play of the powers of life . An Indian , at table with an Englishman , at Surat , expressed his surprise by loud exclamations , on seeing a vast quantity of froth ooze out of a bottle of ...
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... playing at racket . None other rackets they had in hand , Save every soul a good fire - brand ; Wherewith they play'd so prettily , That Lucifer laugh'd merrily . And all the residue of the fiends Did laugh thereat full well like ...
... playing at racket . None other rackets they had in hand , Save every soul a good fire - brand ; Wherewith they play'd so prettily , That Lucifer laugh'd merrily . And all the residue of the fiends Did laugh thereat full well like ...
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... scene . The curtain is dropped ; and we leave our parts to those who are weak enough to feel an ineli- nation to play them a few hours longer , Two or three grains of powder will soon break the THE LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER . 17.
... scene . The curtain is dropped ; and we leave our parts to those who are weak enough to feel an ineli- nation to play them a few hours longer , Two or three grains of powder will soon break the THE LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER . 17.
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... PLAY OF PIZARRO . As I walked through the Strand so careless and gay , I met a young girl who was wheeling a barrow , Choice fruit , sir , said she , and a bill of the play , So my apples I bought , and set off for Pizarro . When I got ...
... PLAY OF PIZARRO . As I walked through the Strand so careless and gay , I met a young girl who was wheeling a barrow , Choice fruit , sir , said she , and a bill of the play , So my apples I bought , and set off for Pizarro . When I got ...
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... playing one of Dr. Blow's anthems , and just as he had finished the verse part and began the full chorus , the organ ceased ... play at ball against the gable . ' " Do you know your creed ? " - " No . " — " Or the commandments ? " - " No ...
... playing one of Dr. Blow's anthems , and just as he had finished the verse part and began the full chorus , the organ ceased ... play at ball against the gable . ' " Do you know your creed ? " - " No . " — " Or the commandments ? " - " No ...
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Page 481 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man. Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Page 408 - ... as Poor Richard says." They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows; "Friends," says he, and neighbours, "the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes...
Page 450 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
Page 408 - If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest prodigality; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
Page 409 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail.
Page 576 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say,- whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 411 - Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter. At present, perhaps, you may think yourselves in thriving circumstances, and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury ; but For age and want save while you may ; No morning sun lasts a whole day.
Page 451 - Kate soon will be a woefu' woman! Now, do thy speedy utmost, Meg, And win the key-stane of the brig: There at them thou thy tail may toss, A running stream they darena 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 Tam wi...
Page 539 - For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe: You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well, then, it now appears you need my help: Go to, then; you come to me, and you say, Shylock, we would have moneys...
Page 450 - Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind, and rain, and fire; Whiles holding fast his guid blue bonnet, Whiles crooning o'er some auld Scots sonnet. Whiles glow'ring round wi' prudent cares, Lest bogles catch him unawares: Kirk-Alloway was drawing nigh, Whare ghaists and houlets nightly cry. By this time he was cross the ford, Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; And past the birks and meikle stane, Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; And thro...