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. Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces - Page 21by Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 375 pagesFull view - About this book
| Albert J. Rivero - History - 1997 - 324 pages
...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" 47 —takes aim not only at Jenyns but at mythology itself. If stories like these account for the state... | |
| University of Chicago Press - Philosophy - 2003 - 314 pages
...frolick beings at the vicissitudes of an dgue, 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. As they are wiser and more powerful than we, they have more exquisite diversions; for we have no way of procuring... | |
| Helen Deutsch - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 337 pages
...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. As they are wiser and more powerful than we, they have more exquisite diversions; for we have no way of procuring... | |
| John Farrell - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 372 pages
...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. As they are wiser and more powerful than we, they have more exquisite diversions; for we have no way of 28 As Lovejoy... | |
| Sandra Menssen, Thomas D. Sullivan - Philosophy - 2007 - 348 pages
...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. As they are wiser and more powerful than we, they have more exquisite diversions. . . .8 Could the relevant difference... | |
| 1774 - 388 pages
...Ague, and good Sport it is to fee a Man tumble with an Epilepfy, and revive and tumble again, and aH this he knows not why. As they are wifer and more...exquifite Diverfions, for we have no way of procuring any Sport fo brifk and fo lafting ' C 3 - a* as the Paroxyfms of the Gout and Stone which undoubtedly... | |
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