Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Svazek 1T. Boys, 1826 - Počet stran: 360 |
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... give a sincere pleasure : where that is not imitated , ' tis grotesque paint- ing ; the fine wonian ends in a fish's tail . — Dryden . XLII . When a philosopher has once laid hold of a favourite principle , which , perhaps , accounts ...
... give a sincere pleasure : where that is not imitated , ' tis grotesque paint- ing ; the fine wonian ends in a fish's tail . — Dryden . XLII . When a philosopher has once laid hold of a favourite principle , which , perhaps , accounts ...
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... give it way . - Johnson . LIX . Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies , as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together . Shenstone . LX . A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to com ...
... give it way . - Johnson . LIX . Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies , as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together . Shenstone . LX . A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to com ...
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... give it up as unat- tainable . - Chesterfield . LXIV . Old sciences are unravelled like old stockings , by beginning at the foot . - Swift . LXV . The figure which a man makes in life , the reception which he meets with in company , the ...
... give it up as unat- tainable . - Chesterfield . LXIV . Old sciences are unravelled like old stockings , by beginning at the foot . - Swift . LXV . The figure which a man makes in life , the reception which he meets with in company , the ...
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... only the under - workman , and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master . Some of which may 14 LACONICS . expected dowry: and since her followers and admirers ...
... only the under - workman , and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master . Some of which may 14 LACONICS . expected dowry: and since her followers and admirers ...
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... ' in ourselves do lie , Which we ascribe to heaven ; the fated sky Gives us free scope ; only doth backward pull Our slow designs where we ourselves are dull . Shakspeare . XCIX . Every one is a virtuoso , of a LACONICS , 21.
... ' in ourselves do lie , Which we ascribe to heaven ; the fated sky Gives us free scope ; only doth backward pull Our slow designs where we ourselves are dull . Shakspeare . XCIX . Every one is a virtuoso , of a LACONICS , 21.
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