Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, Svazek 21829 |
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Strana 5
... fair outside , at least , before strangers . I knew a gentleman and his wife , who treated one another in public with all the respect and civility that can be imagined , so that you would swear they were the most affectionate couple ...
... fair outside , at least , before strangers . I knew a gentleman and his wife , who treated one another in public with all the respect and civility that can be imagined , so that you would swear they were the most affectionate couple ...
Strana 8
... fair wind , blowing it with speed to the haven . - Fuller . XXIX . Human nature is not so much depraved as to hinder us from respecting goodness in others , though we our- selves want it . This is the reason why we are so much charmed ...
... fair wind , blowing it with speed to the haven . - Fuller . XXIX . Human nature is not so much depraved as to hinder us from respecting goodness in others , though we our- selves want it . This is the reason why we are so much charmed ...
Strana 11
... fair tyrant celebrates the prize , And acts herself the triumph of her eyes . So Nero once , with harp in hand , survey'd His flaming Rome , and as it burn'd he play'd . Waller . - To a Lady playing on the Lute . XLI . Worldly ambition ...
... fair tyrant celebrates the prize , And acts herself the triumph of her eyes . So Nero once , with harp in hand , survey'd His flaming Rome , and as it burn'd he play'd . Waller . - To a Lady playing on the Lute . XLI . Worldly ambition ...
Strana 17
... fair wea- ther . He apprehends God's blessings only in a good year , or a fat pasture , and never praises him but on good ground . Sunday he esteems a day to make merry in , and thinks a bagpipe as essential to it as evening - prayer ...
... fair wea- ther . He apprehends God's blessings only in a good year , or a fat pasture , and never praises him but on good ground . Sunday he esteems a day to make merry in , and thinks a bagpipe as essential to it as evening - prayer ...
Strana 18
... Fair has been once made ; but fashion makes us think light of the toil , and we describe the circle as me- chanically as a horse in a mill . - Zimmerman . * Those lines are what the geometricians call the asymptotes of the hyperbola ...
... Fair has been once made ; but fashion makes us think light of the toil , and we describe the circle as me- chanically as a horse in a mill . - Zimmerman . * Those lines are what the geometricians call the asymptotes of the hyperbola ...
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Astrology Bacon beauty Ben Jonson better body Butler common Confucius Congreve delight doth drink endeavour eyes fair fame fear fellow folly fool fortune friends gamester genius give Godfrey Kneller gold gout grace happiness hath hear heart heaven hobby-horse honour Hudibras humour idle Jonson keep kind king labour laugh learning live look looking-glass Lord Bacon Lord Bolingbroke lover man's mankind marriage Massinger men's mind Mirabel mirth nature nerally never o'er observed once Ovid pains painting passions person play pleased pleasure Plutarch poet poison'd poor Pope praise pride reason rich scarce seldom sense Shakspeare Shenstone sleep sometimes soul speak sure sweet taste tell temper thee thing thou art thought tion tongue true truth turn vex'd virtue wealth whole wisdom wise woman words write youth
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Strana 191 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Strana 257 - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps death his court ; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp...
Strana 233 - Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice; Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Strana 207 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Strana 257 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Strana 246 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Strana 264 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Strana 242 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Strana 99 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
Strana 121 - ... our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.