 So that as a river runs sometimes precipitate and swift, then dull and slow ; now direct, then per ambages ; now deep, then shallow ; now muddy, then clear ; now broad, then narrow ; doth my style flow : now serious, then light ; now comical, then satirical...  The Scottish Review - Page 611886Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burton - 1804 - 622 pages
...then narrow ; doth my style flow — now serious, then light ; now comical, then satyrical ; now more elaborate, then remiss, as the present subject required,...ordinary traveller, sometimes fair, sometimes foul; here champion, there inclosed ; barren in one place, better soil in another. By woods, groves, hills, dales,... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1806 - 626 pages
...then narrow ; doth my style flow — now serious, then light; now comicall, then satyricall ; now more elaborate, then remiss, as the present subject required, or as at that time I was^aflected. And if thou vouchsafe to read this treatise, it shall seem no otherwise to thce, than... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1821 - 614 pages
...then narrow; doth my style flow — now serious, then light; now comical, then satyrical ; now more elaborate, then remiss, as the present subject required,...ordinary traveller, sometimes fair, sometimes foul ; here champion, there inclosed ; barren in one place, better soil in another. By woods, groves, hills, dales,... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1821 - 612 pages
...then narrow; doth my style flow — now serious, then light; now comical, then satyrical ; now more elaborate, then remiss, as the present subject required,...thou vouchsafe to read this treatise, it shall seem 110 otherwise to thee, than the way to an ordinary traveller, sometimes fair, sometimes foul ; here... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - 1831 - 570 pages
...prose, or unpretending verse. Some of these reminiscences, gentle reader, I here present to time : " And if thou vouchsafe to read this treatise, it shall seem no otherwise to thce, than the way to an ordinary traveler, sometimes fair, sometimes foul ; here champion, there inclosed... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835 - 496 pages
...sun has set, Its light shall linger round us yet, .THE PILGRIM'S BREVIARY. THE PILGRIM'S BREVIARY. " If thou vouchsafe to read this treatise, it shall...way to an ordinary traveller, — sometimes fair, sometime foul ; here champaign, there enclosed ; barren in one place, better soyle in another ; by... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835 - 270 pages
...Bet, Its light shall linger round us yet, THE PILGRIM'S BREVIARY. THE PILGRIM'S BREVIARY. " If tliou vouchsafe to read this treatise, it shall seem no...way to an ordinary traveller, — sometimes fair, sometime foul ; here champaign, there enclosed ; barren in one place, better soyle in another ; by... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1837 - 644 pages
...then narrow, doth my style flow — now serious, then light ; now comical, then satyrical ; now more elaborate, then remiss, as the present subject required,...ordinary traveller, sometimes fair, sometimes foul ; here champion, there inclosed ; barren in one place, better soil in another. By woods, groves, hills, dales,... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1838 - 762 pages
...then narrow ; doth my style flow — now serious, then light ; now comical, then satyrical ; nowmore nd ditties (if yong especially) and cannot abstain, though it be when they go to, champion, there inclosed ; barren in one place, better soil in another. By woods, groves, hills, dales,... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1847 - 688 pages
...broad, then narrow; doth my style flow: now serious, then light ; now comical, then satirical ; now more R s <C #o6dI q Y % p k` _ڙ ] [J h y 9[ o ܭH,+... > { X$ F} KQ ptP N v Kz GV & ͥ í c 3k inclosed; barren in one place, better soil in another: by woods, groves, hills, dales, plains, &.C.... | |
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