Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 1T. Boys, 1826 - 360 páginas |
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... Bruyere . XI . Wit must grow like fingers ; if it be taken from others , ' tis like plums stuck upon black thorns ; they are for a while , but come to nothing . - Selden . XII . When I reflect , as I frequently do , upon the felicity I ...
... Bruyere . XI . Wit must grow like fingers ; if it be taken from others , ' tis like plums stuck upon black thorns ; they are for a while , but come to nothing . - Selden . XII . When I reflect , as I frequently do , upon the felicity I ...
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... Bruyere . LIV Satire is a sort of glass , wherein beholders generally discover every body's face but their own ; -which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world , and that so very few are offended with it ...
... Bruyere . LIV Satire is a sort of glass , wherein beholders generally discover every body's face but their own ; -which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world , and that so very few are offended with it ...
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... Bruyere . LXI . If all the happiness that is dispersed through the whole race of mankind in this world were drawn together , and put into the possession of any single man , it would not make a very happy being . Though on the contrary ...
... Bruyere . LXI . If all the happiness that is dispersed through the whole race of mankind in this world were drawn together , and put into the possession of any single man , it would not make a very happy being . Though on the contrary ...
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... Bruyere . LXXXIII . The richest genius , like the most fertile soil , when un- cultivated , shoots up into the rankest weeds ; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man , produces to its slothful owner , the most ...
... Bruyere . LXXXIII . The richest genius , like the most fertile soil , when un- cultivated , shoots up into the rankest weeds ; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man , produces to its slothful owner , the most ...
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... Bruyere . XCIII . Wit lies most in the assemblage of ideas , and putting those together with quickness and variety , wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the ...
... Bruyere . XCIII . Wit lies most in the assemblage of ideas , and putting those together with quickness and variety , wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the ...
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Apicius bagnio beauty Ben Jonson better body Bruyere Butler Chesterfield Churchill Codrus common conversation death delight dicebox doth dress enemy Epictetus Euripides evil eyes false fame fancy fear folly fools fortune friends genius gentleman give greatest happiness hath heart honest honour Hudibras human humour ignorance inns of court judgment keep kind knave laugh learning less live look Lord Bacon LUDGATE HILL man's mankind manner marriage Massinger matter merit mind Montaigne nature neral never numbers observed opinion pain pass passion pedants person philosopher pleasure Plutarch poet poor praise pride proud racters reason rich ridiculous Roman triumph satire seldom sense Shaftesbury Shakspeare Shenstone soul speak stand sure Swift talk tell thing thou thought tion true truth turn vanity vice virtue whilst whole wise words write young