Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, Volume 21829 |
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... hath not wit enough to tell twenty , or to tell his age ; he shall not passe with me for wise in learning , who cannot tell the age of the world , and count hundreds of years : I mean not so critically , as to solve all doubts arising ...
... hath not wit enough to tell twenty , or to tell his age ; he shall not passe with me for wise in learning , who cannot tell the age of the world , and count hundreds of years : I mean not so critically , as to solve all doubts arising ...
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... hath reference to the three kings . So likewise our eating of fritters , whip- ping of tops , roasting of herrings , jack of lents , & c . , they were all in imitation of church - works , emblems of martyrdom . Our tansies at Easter ...
... hath reference to the three kings . So likewise our eating of fritters , whip- ping of tops , roasting of herrings , jack of lents , & c . , they were all in imitation of church - works , emblems of martyrdom . Our tansies at Easter ...
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... hath let go himself from the hold and stay of reason , and lies open to the mercies of all temptations . No lust but finds him disarmed and fenceless , and with the least assault enters . If any mischief escape him , it was not his ...
... hath let go himself from the hold and stay of reason , and lies open to the mercies of all temptations . No lust but finds him disarmed and fenceless , and with the least assault enters . If any mischief escape him , it was not his ...
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... hath the least judgment in it , ) this vagrant hath been whipped out of all learned corpora- tions . If our artist lodgeth her in the out rooms of his soul for a night or two , it is rather to hear than believe her relations . - Fuller ...
... hath the least judgment in it , ) this vagrant hath been whipped out of all learned corpora- tions . If our artist lodgeth her in the out rooms of his soul for a night or two , it is rather to hear than believe her relations . - Fuller ...
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... hath eyes his treasure to behold : But still like pining Tantalus he sits , And useless bans the harvest of his wits , Having no other pleasure of his gain , But torment , that it cannot cure his pain . So then he hath it , when he ...
... hath eyes his treasure to behold : But still like pining Tantalus he sits , And useless bans the harvest of his wits , Having no other pleasure of his gain , But torment , that it cannot cure his pain . So then he hath it , when he ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
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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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 99 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
Página 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.