 | Norman Pearson - 1911 - 532 páginas
...they take a man in the midst of his business or pleasure, and knock him down with an apoplexy. . . . Many a merry bout have these frolic beings at the...and tumble again, and all this he knows not why." They may even, he proceeds (with rather a clumsy tilt at Jenyns), find a subtle enjoyment in the contemplation... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 430 páginas
...asthma, as a human philosopher in the effects of the air-pump. Many a. merry bout have these frolick beings at the vicissitudes of an ague, and good sport...revive, and tumble again, and all this he knows not why. The paroxysms of the gout and stone must undoubtedly make high mirth, especially if the play be a little... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 430 páginas
...asthma, as a human philosopher in the effects of the air-pump. Many a merry bout have these frolick beings at the vicissitudes of an ague, and good sport...revive, and tumble again, and all this he knows not why. The paroxysms of the gout and stone must undoubtedly make high mirth, especially if the play be a little... | |
 | Francis McDougall Charlewood Turner - 1926 - 128 páginas
...asthma, as a human philosopher in the effects of an air-pump. Many a merry bout have these frolick beings at the vicissitudes of an ague, and good sport...revive and tumble again, and all this he knows not why The paroxysms of the gout and stone must undoubtedly make high mirth, especially if the play be a little... | |
 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 páginas
...philosopher in the effects of the air-pump. To swell a man with tympany is as good a sport as to blow a frog. Many a merry bout have these frolic beings at the...revive and tumble again and all this he knows not why. As they are wiser and more powerful than we, they have more exquisite diversions, for we have no way... | |
 | 1902 - 1052 páginas
...philosopher in the effects of the air-pump. To swell a man with a tympany is as good sport as to blow a frog. Many a merry bout have these frolic beings at the...and tumble again, and all this he knows not why." Johnson goes on to suspect that the merry malice of these beings finds means of enjoyment in the creation... | |
 | 1885 - 860 páginas
...asthma, as a human philosopher in the effects of an air-pump. Many a merry bout have these frolick beings at the vicissitudes of an ague, and good sport...revive, and tumble again, and all this he knows not why. The paroxysms of the gout and stone must undoubtedly make high mirth, especially if the play be a little... | |
 | 1907 - 1052 páginas
...merry bout have these frolic beings at the vicissitudes of an ague, and good sport it is to see » man tumble with an epilepsy, and revive and tumble again, and all this he knows not why. to entangle himself in sophisms and flounder in absurdity, to talk confidently of the scale of being,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 páginas
...are virtuosi, and delight in the operation of an asthma, as a human philosopher in the effects of the air-pump. . . . Many a merry bout have these frolic...revive and tumble again, and all this he knows not why. As they are wiser and more powerful than we, they have more exquisite diversions; for we have no way... | |
 | Wayne J. Urban - 2000 - 1372 páginas
...the air pump'. They would chuckle 'at the vicissitudes of an ague'; and would find it 'good sport ... to see a man tumble with an epilepsy, and revive and tumble again, and all mis he knows not why'. The magnificent sting in the tail is, of course, Johnson's insinuation that... | |
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Many a merry bout have these frolic beings at the vicissitudes of an ague ; and good sport it is, to see a man tumble with an epilepsy, and revive and tumble again, and all this he knows not why. 
