 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden : yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...conversation with men of judgment) they soon forsake them.' I must not dismiss this subject without observing, that as Mr. Locke in the passage abovementioned... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden : yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...better books, and by conversation with men of judgment) thev soon forsake them.' I must not dismiss this subject without observing, that as Mr. Locke in the... | |
 | Virgil - Agriculture - 1803 - 408 pages
...on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden. Yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...reading better books, and by conversation with men of judgement), they soon forsake them : and when the torrent from the mountain falls no more, the swelling... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...on a mountebank's stage, or to be master of the ceremonies in a beargarden : yet these are they w.ho have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...sense, as they may by reading better books, and by con' versation with men of judgment, they soon forsake 4 them.' I must not dismiss this subject without... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...on a mountebank's stage, or to be master of the ceremonies in a beargarden: yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...that as their readers improve their stock of sense, f as they may by reading better books, and by con' versation with men of judgment, they soon forsake... | |
 | 1804 - 676 pages
...a mountehank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden : yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...conversation with men of judgment), they soon forsake them.' that as Mr. Locke in the passage above mentioned has discovered the most fruitful souree of wit, so... | |
 | Virgil - Aeneas (Legendary character) - 1806 - 414 pages
...on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden. Yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...soon forsake them :. and when the torrent from the mountain falls no more, the swelling writer is reduced into his shallow bed, like the Manqanares at... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 328 pages
...a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonie's in a bear-garden. Yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...reading better books, and by conversation with men of judgement), they soon forsake them : and when the torrent from the mountain falls no more, the swelling... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 366 pages
....a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden : yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...improve their stock of sense (as they may by reading belter books, and by conversation with men of judgment) they soon forsake them.' I must not dismiss... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a beargarden : yet these are they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...conversation with men of judgment) they soon forsake them. I must not dismiss this subject without observing, that as Mr. Locke, in the passage above-mentioned,... | |
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... of two pounds per annum in Parnassus, and therefore are not privileged to poll. Their authors are of the same level, fit to represent them on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a beargarden : yet these are they who have the... 
