I will now, in good sooth, declare to you, who will not blab, that the gunpowder fright is got out of all our heads, and we are going on, hereabouts, as if the devil was contriving every man should blow up himself, by wild riot, excess, and devastation... The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ... - Seite 453von John Dryden - 1808Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1849 - 362 Seiten
...native mountains;' and the same allusion is similarly made by another not less trustworthy writer. ' The gunpowder fright is got out of all our ' heads,...' excess, and devastation of time and temperance.' It is perhaps fortunate that the more particular account which has transpired of these banquetings,... | |
| George Hogarth - 1851 - 398 Seiten
...will not blab, that the gunpowder fright is got out of all our heads, and we are going on hereabout as if the devil was contriving every man should blow...riot, excess, and devastation of time and temperance." [jonson's masques, extending over a period of thirty years, are numerous) One of the prettiest of them,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - 664 Seiten
...as I have now done. The gunpowder fright is got out of all our heads, and we are going on hereabout as if the devil was contriving every man should blow...riot, excess, and devastation of time and temperance. The great ladies do go well masqued ; and indeed, it be the only show of their modesty to conceal their... | |
| Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 Seiten
...ladies abandon their sobriety, and are seen to roll about in intoxication," — and sincerely laments " that the Gunpowder fright is got out of all our heads,...riot, excess, and devastation of time and temperance." It is no wonder that in that century, Aubrey, and every gossiping writer, has something to tell of... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1855 - 474 Seiten
...intent on proving, by scripture and history, the royal supremacy, and the * Sir John Harrington. " I will now in good sooth declare to you, who will...riot, excess, and devastation of time and temperance." — tetter in Kugce Antiques, t Harrington, Nug. Ant. grand fact, that in all ages the authority of... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1855 - 474 Seiten
...history, the royal supremacy, and the * Sir John Harrington. " 1 will now in good sooth declare to yon, who will not blab, that the gunpowder fright is got...by wild riot, excess, and devastation of time and temperance."—fitter in NugtE Antiques. t Harrington, Nug. Ant. B3 grand fact, that in all ages the... | |
| Walter Scott - 1855 - 704 Seiten
...at I have now done. The gunpowder fright is got out of all our beads, and we are going on hereabout as if the devil was contriving every man should blow...riot, excess, and devastation of time and temperance. The great ladies do go well mosqucd ; and, indeed, it be the only show of their modesty to conceal... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1856 - 646 Seiten
...native mountains ;" and the same allusion is similarly made by another not less trustworthy writer. " The gunpowder fright is got out of all our heads,...riot, excess, and devastation of time and temperance." It is perhaps fortunate that the more particular account which has transpired of these banquetings,... | |
| Frederic Richard Lees - 1856 - 354 Seiten
...gunpowder fright is got out of all our beads, and we are going on hereabouts, as if the Devil were contriving every man should blow up himself by wild riot, excess, and devastation of wine ana intemperance." (Nugae Antiquae.} t In truth, what was an accident (wine, etc.) has become... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1861 - 852 Seiten
...цшцктчЬл- fright is got uut of nil our heads, and we are going on hereaV»outs as if the devil wa* contriving every man should blow up himself, by wild riot, excess, and devastation, of time aud temjieranoe." — Letter in i Jfvga: Antimite. 3 Harrington, Кира Ant. 146 manlike speech in... | |
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