 A mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they act their parts, which methinks are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene. I hear new news every day...  English Book Collectors - Page 68by William Younger Fletcher - 1902 - 448 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Minto - English language - 1892 - 584 pages
...act their parts, which methinks are diversely presented unto me as from a common theatre or scene. I hear new news every day, and those ordinary rumours...cities besieged in France, Germany, Turkey, Persia, Pulaml, &c., daily musters and preparations and suchlike, whicb these tempestuous times afford, battles... | |
 | William Minto - English language - 1892 - 582 pages
...act their parts, which methiuks are diversely presented unto me as from a common tlieatre or scene. I hear new news every day, and those ordinary rumours...inundations, thefts, murders, massacres, meteors, comets, spectrurns, prodigies, apparitions, of towns taken, cities besieged in France, Germany, Turkey, Persia,... | |
 | Robert Burton - Melancholy - 1896 - 552 pages
...act -their parts, which methinks are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene. I hear new news every day, and : those ordinary rumours of war, plagpes, fires, .inundations, thefts, murders, massacres, meteors, comets, spectrums, prodigies, apparitions,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - Authors, English - 1901 - 862 pages
...act their parts, which me thinks are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene. I hear new news every day : and those ordinary rumours...of towns taken, cities besieged in France, Germany, Turky, Persia, Poland, &c., daily musters and preparations, and such like, which these tempestuous... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1902 - 868 pages
...act their parts, which me thinks are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene. Turky, Persia, Poland, &c., daily musters and preparations, and such like, which these tempestuous... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1903 - 590 pages
...act their parts, which methinks are diversely presented unto me as from a common theatre or scene. I hear new news every day : and those ordinary rumours...apparitions, of towns taken, cities besieged in France, 1 Hudibras, Part I. c. ii. 53-58. Germany, Turkey, Persia, Poland, etc., daily musters and preparations,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1905 - 484 pages
...act their parts, which methinks are diversely .presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene. I hear new news every day : and those ordinary rumours...inundations, thefts. murders, massacres, meteors, coinets; spectrums, prodigies. apparitions; of towns taken, cities besieged in France, Germany, Turkey,... | |
 | George Bagshawe Harrison - Great Britain - 1928 - 536 pages
...participant in the conspiracies of Lopez and his fellows, and Ibarra with Yorke and Williams. THE ENVOY I HEAR new news every day, and those ordinary rumours...besieged in France, Germany, Turkey, Persia, Poland, &c. daily musters and preparations, and such like, which these tempestuous times afford, battles fought,... | |
 | J. C. Davis - History - 1983 - 444 pages
...than this sense of the passage of time as a disorder of happenings without pattern, purpose or merit. I hear new news every day, and those ordinary rumours...Poland, etc., daily musters and preparations, and such-like, which these tempestuous times afford, battles fought, so many men slain, monomachies, shipwrecks,... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 412 pages
...justification beyond that of the merest survival or of greed, of a melancholic or cynical mockery: I hear new news every day, and those ordinary rumours...spectrums, prodigies, apparitions, of towns taken, cities beseiged in France, Germany, Türkey, Persia, Poland, &c., daily musters and preparations, and such... | |
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