 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...Men of all sorts,' says that merry knight, ' take a pride to gird at me. The brain of man is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter more than...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.' APDISON. * *• NO. 48. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, Per multas aditwn sibi scepe ftguras Rcpperit Ovib. Met.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 424 pages
...Page bearing his Sword and Buckler. Fal. The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter, more than...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. I do here walk before thee, like a sow, that hath overwhelmed all her litter but one. If the prince... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 478 pages
...sorts take a pride to gird at me : The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to vent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent,...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. I do here walk before thee, like a sow, that hath overwhelmed all her litter but one. If the prince... | |
 | Paul Sebright - 1820 - 806 pages
...have been traced to their origin in the play of his passions; and, as Falstaff says of himself — " I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men ;" so it might have been said of lord Kingsdown, that as he was learned in nature only, nature was... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 498 pages
...take a pride to gird at me 8 : The brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to vent any thing that tends to laughter, more than I invent,...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. I do here walk before thee, like a sow, that hath overwhelmed all her litter but one. If the prince... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...of all sorts,' says that merry knight, 'take a pride to ;ird at me. The brain of any man is not able in military achievements. Peter Alexovitz of Russia,...he found himself emperor of a vast and numerous p olhe'r men.' ADDISOX. •. C. N° 48. WEDNESDAY, AP1UL 25, 1711. Frr mullai adilum tM tirfe fgurat... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 632 pages
...Men of all sorts,' says that merry knight, ' take a pride to gird at me. The brain of man is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter more than...48. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1711. -Per multas aditum sibi ssepe figures Repperit OVID. Met. xiv. 652. Through various shapes he often finds access. MY correspondents... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 356 pages
...Men of all sorts,' says that merry knight, ' take a pride to gird at me. The brain of man is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter more than...in other men.'— -C. N° 48. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 171 1. Per multas aditum sibi stepe figures Repperit OVID. Met. xiv. 652. Through various shapes be... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 450 pages
...'Men of all sorts,' says that merry knight, ' take a pride to gird at me. The brain of man is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter more than...myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.' C. N°48. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1711. ' Per mnltus adit um sibi scepd jiguras Repperit — — — OVID,... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 406 pages
...Men of all sorts,' says that merry knight, ' take a pride to gird at me. The brain of man is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter more than...in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.' No. 48. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1711. —Per multas adilum sibi sajtejiguras Sepperit — OVID. MET. xiv.... | |
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Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is... 
