 | Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 strani
...are rather execrable than ridiculous, or in miferable, which are rather to be pitied than fcorned. For what is it to make folks gape at a wretched beggar, and a beggarly clown : or, againft the law of hofpitality, to jeft at Grangers, becaufe they fpeak... | |
 | Sir Philip Sidney - 1787 - 158 strani
...are rather execrable than ridiculous ; or in miferable, which are rather to be pitied, than fcorned. For what is it to make folks gape at. a wretched beggar, and a beggarly clown : or, againft the law of hofpitality, to jeft at ftrangers, becaufe they fpeak... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 strani
...dear old friend.' There is one passage in the original, better transfused by Oldham than by Johnson : 'Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit ^ which is an exquisite remark on the galling meanness and contempt annexed to poverty: JOHNSON'S imitation... | |
 | 1794 - 450 strani
...certainties to fortune. I am Your most obedient, Humble servant.' T. - 150. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, t711. Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit IUT. SAT. iii. 152. " Want is the scorn of every wealthy fool, " And wit in rags is turn'd to ridicule."... | |
 | Juvenal - 1806 - 192 strani
...alter Pelle patet; vel si, consuto vulnere, crassum 150 Atque recens linuiu ostendit non una cicatrix ? Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit. Exeat, inquit, Si pudor est, et de pulvino surgat equestri, Cujus res legi non sufficit, et sedeant... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 484 strani
...bear, reads — the poor man's contumely ; the contumely which the potman is obliged to endure : " Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, " Quam quod ridiculos homines facit." Malont. 7 — — of despis'd love,'] The folio reads — of dispriz'd love. Steevens. '— — might... | |
 | Pietro Metastasio - 1814 - 542 strani
...alter Pelle patet ; vel si consuto vulnere crassum , Atque recens li nuin.. ostendit non una cicatrix I Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in, se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit. Exeat , ìr iti pudor est , et de pulvino surgat equestri , Cnìus res legi non sufficit , et sedeant... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1818 - 356 strani
...After expa59 tiatirig upon the sad effects of poverty, you may remember he pathetically remarks— " Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit " Lord Avonmore bristled up at once — " Why, Mr, Curran, Hesiod was not in historian, he was a poet,... | |
 | Juvenal - 1819 - 156 strani
...alter Pelle patet ; vel si, consuto vulnere, crassum ISO Atque recens linum ostendit non una cicatrix? Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit. Exeat, inquit, Si pudor est, et de pulvino surgat equestri, Cujus res legi non sufficit; et sedeant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 strani
..." — — Materiem praebet causasque jocorum Omnibus hie idem ? si foeda et scissa lacerna, &c. 14 Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit. " — — — — Agmine facto, Debuerant olim tenues migrasse Quirites. This mournful truth is ev'ry... | |
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Aristotle, is that they stir laughter in sinful things, which are rather execrable than ridiculous; or in miserable, which are rather to be pitied than scorned. For what is it to make folks gape at a wretched beggar... 
