 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 814 páginas
...insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill ; they...them in downright earnest, ere the farce be over. There shall be such a mopping and a mowing at the last day, and such blushing and confusion of countenance... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 808 páginas
...insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people, swallow the universe like a pill ; they...like smiling images, pushed from behind. For God's sako, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself! As for the others, the... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1890 - 300 páginas
...insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill ; they...them in downright earnest, ere the farce be over. There shall be such a mopping and a mowing at the last day, and such blushing and confusion of countenance... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 páginas
...insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they...them in downright earnest, ere the farce be over. There shall be such a mopping and a mowing at the last day, and such blushing and confusion of countenance... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 páginas
...insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill ; they...them in downright earnest, ere the farce be over. There shall be such a mopping and a mowing at the last day, and such blushing and confusion of countenance... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 238 páginas
...insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill ; they...them in downright earnest, ere the farce be over. There shall be such a mop39 ping and a mowing at the last day, and such blushing and confusion of coantenance... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 páginas
...insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill ; they...them in downright earnest, ere the farce be over. There shall be such a mopping and a mowing at the last day, and such blushing and confusion of countenance... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 páginas
...insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. , Some people swallow the universe like a pill ; they...them in downright earnest, ere the farce be over. There shall be such a mop. ping and a mowing at the last day, and such blushing and confusion of countenance... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 380 páginas
...insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill ; they...them in downright earnest, ere the farce be over. There shall be such a mopping and a mowing at the last day, and such blushing and confusion of countenance... | |
 | 1895 - 850 páginas
...all in our youth," is the refrain of " Virginibus Puerisque," but the conclusion of the matter is, " for God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself." " Pulvis et Umbra Sumus " (the second essay I quoted from) sits in judgment, not upon life's illusions... | |
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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. 
