 | John Ferriar - 1798 - 334 pages
...more singular that all this declamation should be taken, word for word, from Burton's introduction. " As apothecaries, we make new mixtures every day, pour...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 ether... | |
 | English literature - 1799 - 614 pages
...more fingular that all this declamation fliould be taken, word for word, from Burton's introduction. " As apothecaries, we make new mixtures every day, pour out of one veflel into another ; and as thofe old Romans robbed all the cities of the world, to let out their... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1799 - 614 pages
...fingular that all this declamation fliould be taken, word for word, from Burton's introduftion. •• As apothecaries, we make new mixtures every day, pour out of one veflel into another ; and as thofe old Romans robbed all the cities of the world, to let out their... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1800 - 616 pages
...terms. Ne feriarentur fartasse typographi, velideo scribendum est alit/uid ut se vi.risse testentur. As Apothecaries we make new mixtures every day, pour...one vessel into another ; and as those old Romans robb'd all the cities of the world, to set out their bad sited Rome, we skim off the cream of other... | |
 | Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1804 - 622 pages
...terms. Ne feriarentur forlasse typograpki, vt.l ideo scrikendum est alifjuid nt se vixisse testentur. As apothecaries, we make new mixtures every day, pour out of one vessel into another; and as those old Komans rob'd all the cities of the world, to set out their bad sited Rome, we skim off thd cream of... | |
 | 1808 - 416 pages
...of" The Ki unties of England and Wales" and " The Lounger's Common-Plate Book:" " As apothecaries me make new mixtures every day, pour out of one vessel into another, skiAi the cream of other men's wits, piek the' choice flowers of their tilted gardens, to set out our... | |
 | Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1821 - 612 pages
...terms. He feriarcntur fortasse typographic vel idea scribcndum est aliquid ut se via-isse testentur. As apothecaries, we make new mixtures every day, pour out of one vessel into another ; and sis those old Romans rob'd all the cities of the world, to set out their bad sited Rome, we skim off... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...the same rope — forever in the same track ? forever at the same pace ?" The words of Burton are, " As apothecaries, we make new mixtures, every day pour out of one vessel 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... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...the same rope — forever in the same track ? forever at the same pace ?" The words of Burton are, " As apothecaries, we make new mixtures, every day pour out of one vessel 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1825 - 260 pages
...same rope — for ever in the same track — for ever at the same pace ?" The words of Burton are, " As apothecaries, we make new mixtures, every day pour out of one vessel into another; and as the Romans robbed all the cities in the world to -- set out their bad-sited Rome, we skim the cream... | |
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Rome, we skim off the cream of other men's wits, pick the choice flowers of their tilled gardens to set out our own sterile plots. . . . [W]e weave the same web still, twist the same rope again and again. 
