 | J. H. Lobban - 1896 - 362 trang
...without notice: " Honour is like the glassy bubble, Which costs philosophers such trouble : Where, one part crack'd, the whole does fly, And wits are crack'd to find out why". 1 A worthless tragedy by Dr. Brown, a minor poet and dramatist of the time. SA tragedy by Robert Dodsley... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 610 trang
...tet none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. —Shakespeare: 'Merchant of Venice' Act II. Honor Is like that glassy bubble That finds philosophers...whole does fly. And wits are crack'd to find out why. — Butler: ' Hudibras.* Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men... | |
 | W. V. Byars - 1901 - 616 trang
...!,e! none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. — Shakespeare: * Merchant of Venice,* Act II. Honor is like that glassy bubble That finds philosophers...whole does fly. And wits are crack'd to find out why. — Butler: • Hudibras.* Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1905 - 352 trang
...near. Honor is like that glassy Bubble That finds Philosophers such trouble, Whose least part crackt, the whole does fly, And Wits are crack'd, to find out why. Quoth Ralpho, Honor's but a Word, To swear by only, in a Lord: In other men 'tis but a HufF, To vapour... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 662 trang
...repeat because tis probably so long since you read it, " Honour is like that glassy Bubble, That gives Philosophers such Trouble Whose least part crack'd,...whole does fly, And Wits are crack'd to find out why." May I ask you, if you know any thing of the Application of this Power, of which I have not at present... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 516 trang
..."Honour is like that glassy Bubble, That gives Philosophers such Trouble Whose least part crack'H, the whole does fly, And Wits are crack'd to find out why." May I ask you, if you know any thing of the Application of this Power, of which I have not at present... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 trang
...without notice. Honour is like the glassy bubble, Which costs philosophers such trouble, Where one part crack'd, the whole does fly, And wits are crack'd to find out why.12 In these verses, says Minim, we have two striking accommodations of the sound to the sense.... | |
 | Darío Fernández-Morera, Michael Hanke - 2005 - 238 trang
...near. Honor is like that glassy Bubble That finds Philosophers such trouble, Whose least part crackt, the whole does fly And Wits are crack'd, to find out why. Quoth Ralpho, Honor's but a Word To swear by only, in a Lord: In other men 'tis but a Huff, To vapour... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1684 - 352 trang
...near. Honor is like that glassy Bubble That finds Philosophers such trouble, Whose least part crackt, the whole does fly, And Wits are crack'd, to find out why. Quoth Ralpho, Honor's but a Word, To swear by only, in a Lord: In other men 'tis but a Huff, To vapour... | |
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Was beat with fist instead of a stick ; and that the wonderful lines upon honour and a bubble, have hitherto passed without notice : Honour is like the glassy bubble, Which cost philosophers such trouble ; Where, one part crack'd, the whole does fly,... 
