 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 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 above mentioned... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 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...conversation with men of judgment) they soon forsake them." — Dry den. cxcvi. Similes, drawn from odd circumstances and effects strangely accidental, bear a... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden; yet these *rc they who have the most admirers. But it often happens, to their...conversation with men of judgment) they soon forsake them."—Dryden. CXCVI. Similes, drawn from odd circumstances and effects strangely accidental, bear... | |
 | Virgil - Agriculture - 1830 - 348 pages
...on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden. Vet 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 Mancanares at... | |
 | Virgil - Agriculture - 1834 - 314 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 Manganares at... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...a mountebank's stage, or to be roasters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden: yet these are they who I must not dismiss this subject without observing, that as Mr. Locke in the passage above mentioned... | |
 | English essays - 1836 - 1118 pages
...a mountebank's stage, or '' be masters of the ceremonies in a bear -garden; vet these are they who * *S &H* ) ) % * improve their stock of sense (as they may 9 To pell is used btrre ял signifying to vote; but in pro;r»sj... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden : fet these are they who have the most adniirers. the contemplation of beauty, heightened by virtue,...the charms of a coquette, when compared with the r I must not dismiss this subject without observing, that as Mr. Locke in the pas«age above mentioned... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...of the ceremonies in a heargarden. Yet these are they w',o have the most admirers. But it ..f,. -n happens, to their mortification, that, as their readers improve their stock of sense, (as they may hy reading hetter hooks, and hy conversation with men of judgment,) they soon forsake them : and when... | |
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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... 
