The school candidates, a prosaic burlesque [by H. Clarke].1877 - 80 páginas |
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Página 77 - Others, belike, with happier grace, From bronze or stone shall call the face, Plead doubtful causes, map the skies. And tell when planets set or rise ; But Roman thou, do thou control The nations far and wide ; Be this thy genius, to impose The rule of peace on vanquished foes, Show pity to the humbled soul, And crush the sons of pride.
Página cxx - Mathematicks he moderately studieth to his great contentment. Using it as ballast for his soul, yet to fix it not to stall it ; nor suffers he it to be so unmannerly as to justle out other arts. As for judicial astrology (which hath the least judgement in it) this vagrant hath been out of all learned corporations.
Página xxiii - Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian heretofore on satin ; It had an odd promiscuous tone, As if h' had talk'd three parts in one ; Which made some think, when he did gabble, Th' had heard three labourers of Babel, Or Cerberus himself pronounce A leash of languages at once.
Página xlv - Their ideas are perpetually conversant in lines and figures. If they would, for example, praise the beauty of a woman, or any other animal, they describe it by rhombs, circles, parallelograms, ellipses, and other geometrical terms, or by words of art drawn from music, needless here to repeat.
Página 23 - And plumb the bottom of that vast profound, Few grave ones with such gravity can think, Or follow half so fast as he can sink; With nice distinctions glossing o'er the text, Obscure with meaning, and in words...
Página cvi - On Virgil's Two Seasons of Honey, and his Season of sowing Wheat. With a new and compendious Method of investigating the Risings and Settings of the fixed Stars.
Página 74 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Página 76 - Ears ; Where every Fool his Mouth applies, And whispers in a Thousand Lies; Such gross Delusions could not pass, Thro' any Ears but of an Ass. BUT Gold defiles with frequent Touch; There's nothing fouls the Hands so much: And Scholars give it for the Cause, Of British Midas dirty Paws ; Which while the Senate strove to scower, They wasn't away the Chymick Power.
Página 78 - Thine, Roman, is the pilum ; Roman, the sword is thine, The even trench, the bristling mound, The legion's ordered line ; And thine the wheels of triumph Which with their laurelled train Move slowly up the shouting streets To Jove's eternal fane.
Página xxii - A Poem, Moral, Philosophical, and Religious : in which is considered, the Nature of Man : his Origin, his Present Existence, and his Future Expectations. To which is added, an Appendix, containing Bishop Newton's Thoughts on the Final Restitution of Mankind. London .Printed for the Author, and sold by Richardson, and Co., under the Royal Exchange.