 I was a scholar : seven useful springs Did I deflower in quotations Of cross'd opinions 'bout the soul of man ; The more I learnt, the more I learnt to doubt. Delight...  The Works of John Marston - Page 363by John Marston - 1887Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 454 pages
...scholastic sophistry were never more justly or ingeniously satirized than in the following passage : • I was a scholar : seven useful springs 'Did I deflower...cross'd opinions 'bout the soul of man. The more I learn'd, the more I learn'd to doubt: Knowledge and wit, faith's foes, turn faith about. Nay mark :-~-DeIigbt... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1808 - 512 pages
...how he would walk, With what a jolly presence he would pace Round the Rialto." Scholar and his Dog. I was a scholar : seven useful springs Did I deflower in quotations Of cross' d opinions 'bout the soul of man ; The more I learnt, the more I learnt to doubt. Delight my... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Drama - 1813 - 508 pages
...how he would walk, With what a jolly presence he would pace Round the Rialto." Scholar and his Dog. I was a scholar : seven useful springs Did I deflower...man ; The more I learnt, the more I learnt to doubt. Delight my spaniel slept, whilst I baus'd leaves, Toss'd o'er the dunces, pored on the old print Of... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - English drama - 1814 - 434 pages
...barbarism ; So love me Calmness, I do envy him for't. I was a scholar; seven useful springs Did I derlour in quotations, Of cross'd opinions bout the soul of...come, good Signior, I stay all the gentlemen here, I wou'd fain give my pretty page a pudding-pie. » Id est, a penny each : it is a mode of expression... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1814 - 426 pages
...scholastic sophistry were never more justly or ingeniously satirized than in the following passage : I was a scholar : seven useful springs Did I deflower...Of cross'd opinions 'bout the soul of man. The more 1 learn'd, the more I learn to doubt : Knowledge and wit, faith's foes, turn faith about. Nay mark... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - English drama - 1816 - 424 pages
...barbarism; So love me Calmness, I do envy him for't. I was a scholar; seven useful springs Did I detlour in quotations, Of cross'd opinions 'bout the soul...come, good Signior, I stay all the gentlemen here, I wou'd fain give my pretty page a pudding-pie. * Id est, a penny each: it is a mode of expression still... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1822 - 426 pages
...barbarism ; So love me Calmness, I do envy him for't. I was a scholar : seven useful springs Did I deflour in quotations Of cross'd opinions 'bout the soul of...come, good Signior, I stay all the gentlemen here, I wou'd fain give my pretty page a puddingpie. Lam. Honest Epicure. Nay mark, list! Delight, Delight,... | |
 | Books - 1822 - 386 pages
...barbarism ; So love me Calmness, I do envy him for't. I was a scholar : seven useful springs Did I deflour in quotations Of cross'd opinions 'bout the soul of...come, good Signior, I stay all the gentlemen here, I wou'd fain give my pretty page a puddingpie. Lam. Honest Epicure. Nay mark, list! Delight, Delight,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...have continual plodders ever won, Save bare authority from others' books." — Love's Labour's Lost. " I was a scholar : seven useful springs Did I deflower in quotations Of crossed opinions "bout the soul of man ; The more I learnt, the more I learnt to doubt : Delight, my... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...have continual plodders ever won, Save bare authority from others' books." — Love's Labour's Lost. " I was a scholar : seven useful springs Did I deflower in quotations Of crossed opinions 'bout the soul of man ; The more I learnt, the more I learnt to doubt : Delight, my... | |
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