Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, Volume 31829 |
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... Dryden . If we do not weigh and consider to what end this life is given us , and thereupon order and dispose it right , pretend what we will to the arithmetic , we do not , we cannot so much as number our days in the narrowest and most ...
... Dryden . If we do not weigh and consider to what end this life is given us , and thereupon order and dispose it right , pretend what we will to the arithmetic , we do not , we cannot so much as number our days in the narrowest and most ...
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... Dryden .. Of all things , wisdom is the most terrified with epi- demical fanaticism , because , of all enemies , it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource . - Burke . LXXXIV . Reason ! how many eyes ...
... Dryden .. Of all things , wisdom is the most terrified with epi- demical fanaticism , because , of all enemies , it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource . - Burke . LXXXIV . Reason ! how many eyes ...
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... Dryden . War suspends the rules of moral obligation , and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally abrogat- ed Civil wars strike deepest of all into the manners of the people . They vitiate their politics ; they corrupt ...
... Dryden . War suspends the rules of moral obligation , and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally abrogat- ed Civil wars strike deepest of all into the manners of the people . They vitiate their politics ; they corrupt ...
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... Dryden . I know , and have long felt , the difficulty of reconciling the unwieldy haughtiness of a great ruling nation , habit- uated to command , pampered by enormous wealth , and confident from a long course of prosperity and victory ...
... Dryden . I know , and have long felt , the difficulty of reconciling the unwieldy haughtiness of a great ruling nation , habit- uated to command , pampered by enormous wealth , and confident from a long course of prosperity and victory ...
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... Dryden . Whom , when his foe presumes to checke . His seruants stand to giue the necke . The Queene . The Queene is queint , and quicke conceit , Which makes hir walke which way she list , And rootes them vp , that lie in wait To work ...
... Dryden . Whom , when his foe presumes to checke . His seruants stand to giue the necke . The Queene . The Queene is queint , and quicke conceit , Which makes hir walke which way she list , And rootes them vp , that lie in wait To work ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson better breath Brown charms Churchill colours court creature death Defence of Poesy delight divine doth Dryden ears earth Elizium ev'ry evil Evremond eyes fair fall fame fancy fear flowers folly fools fortune friends give gold grace grow happy hate hath heart heaven honour hour humour king knowledge labour laugh learning liberty light live look man's marriage men's Milton mind mortal nature never night o'er Overbury pain passion pleasure poets poor praise pride Raleigh reason rich Roscommon Sejanus sense Shakspeare shame shine Sidney soul Spenser spirit spleen strong madness sweet taste Tatler Temple thee Theocritus things thou art thought thyself Tom Brown tongue true truth unto vice virtue wheel of fortune whilst wind wisdom wise woman words wretched Young
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Página 311 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Página 294 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 109 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Página 239 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Página 47 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Página 248 - My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow. An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze. Two hundred to adore each breast: But thirty thousand to the rest. An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart. For, lady, you deserve this state; Nor would I love at lower rate.
Página 114 - But he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner...
Página 15 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Página 300 - Now the bright morning star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.
Página 258 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.