Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Svazek 2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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Strana 6
... leaving his ears behind . As for the gal- lows , he never ventures to show his tricks upon the high- rope , for fear of breaking his neck . He seldom commits any villany , but in a legal way , and makes the law bear him out in that for ...
... leaving his ears behind . As for the gal- lows , he never ventures to show his tricks upon the high- rope , for fear of breaking his neck . He seldom commits any villany , but in a legal way , and makes the law bear him out in that for ...
Strana 9
... leave . For men reflect more strictly upon The sense of others than their own ; And wit , that's made of wit and slight , Is richer than the plain downright ; As salt that's made of salt's more fine Than when it first came from the ...
... leave . For men reflect more strictly upon The sense of others than their own ; And wit , that's made of wit and slight , Is richer than the plain downright ; As salt that's made of salt's more fine Than when it first came from the ...
Strana 16
... a piece of beef , and you may hope to stave the guard off sooner . His religion is a part of his copyhold which he takes from his landlord , and refers it wholly to his discretion : yet if he give him leave he 16 LACONICS .
... a piece of beef , and you may hope to stave the guard off sooner . His religion is a part of his copyhold which he takes from his landlord , and refers it wholly to his discretion : yet if he give him leave he 16 LACONICS .
Strana 17
... leave he is a good Christian to his power , ( that is , ) comes to church in his best clothes , and sits there with his neighbours , where he is capable only of two prayers , for rain and fair wea- ther . He apprehends God's blessings ...
... leave he is a good Christian to his power , ( that is , ) comes to church in his best clothes , and sits there with his neighbours , where he is capable only of two prayers , for rain and fair wea- ther . He apprehends God's blessings ...
Strana 24
... pestered with since the revolu- tion , to go no higher . - Steele . XCIII . Fade , flow'rs ! fade , nature will have it so ' Tis what we must in our autumn do ! And as your leaves lie quiet on the ground , 24 LACONICS .
... pestered with since the revolu- tion , to go no higher . - Steele . XCIII . Fade , flow'rs ! fade , nature will have it so ' Tis what we must in our autumn do ! And as your leaves lie quiet on the ground , 24 LACONICS .
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Strana 183 - 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 277 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Strana 223 - 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 199 - 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 238 - 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 258 - 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 223 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Strana 181 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Strana 178 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Strana 93 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...