| Sir Thomas Browne - 1874 - 132 páginas
...not match the fancies of our sleeps. At my nativity, my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpio. I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think...am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardise of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend... | |
| Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 636 páginas
...planet would seem more consonant, and that he should be born when the sun was in Aries. — He goes on. "I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company." How true a type of the whole trade ! Eminently economical of his words, you shall seldom hear a jest... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1904 - 432 páginas
...not match the Fancies of our sleeps. At my Nativity, my Ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius ; I was born in the Planetary hour of Saturn, and I think...behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh my self awake at the conceits thereof : were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1904 - 304 páginas
...tailor ! "At my nativity," says Sir Thomas Browne, " my ascendant was the earthly sign of Scorpius ; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me." One would think that he were anatomizing a tailor ! save that to the latter's occupation, methink',,... | |
| William George Waters - 1906 - 342 páginas
...not match the fancies of our sleeps. At my nativity, my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpio. I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think...am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardise of company ; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend... | |
| Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 544 páginas
...their iniquitous conviction. Browne, like many of his day, was a firm believer in horoscopes — ' I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.' He was, however, perhaps a little in advance of some of his contemporaries ; at any rate, he recognised... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1913 - 660 páginas
...Nativity my Ascendant was the watery Sign of Scorpius i / was bom in the Planetary Hour of Saturn, and, 1 think, I have a Piece of that leaden Planet in me. I am No. 487. no way facetious, not disposed for the Mirth au</ Thursday. Galliardize of Company / yet in one... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1909 - 374 páginas
...not match the Fancies of our sleeps. At my Nativity my Ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius ; I was born in the Planetary hour of Saturn, and I think...behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh my self awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1909 - 364 páginas
...piece of that Leaden Planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize40 of company ; yet in one dream I can compose a whole...behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh my self awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1912 - 420 páginas
...not match the Fancies of our sleeps. At my Nativity, my Ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius ; I was born in the Planetary hour of Saturn, and I think...behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh my self awake at the conceits thereof : were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I... | |
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