 | Jacob Zeitlin - 1926 - 408 strani
...graves. Calentures and surfeit, cold and agues, are the four quarters of the year, and all minister to death; and you can go no whither but you tread upon a dead man's bones. The wild fellow in Petronius that escaped upon a broken table from the furies of a shipwreck, as he was sunning himself... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1990 - 548 strani
...graves. Calentures and surfeit, cold and agues, are the four quarters of the year, and all minister to death; and you can go no whither but you tread upon a dead man's bones. The wild fellow in Petronius that escaped upon a broken table from the furies of a shipwreck, as he was sunning himself... | |
 | 1923 - 568 strani
...nowhither is found in writers as widely separated as Jeremy Taylor 1 and Thomas Carlyle.2 1K . . . and you can go no whither, but you tread upon a dead man's bones." Taylor: On Death. 2 "... ao that he was obliged to march, and did march with a vengeance — nowhither."... | |
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... fruits provides disorders for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves. Calentures and surfeit, cold and agues,... 
