Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... better judge of the true intent of it , than by considering who is the author , what is his character in general , and his dis- position in particular . - Pope . XXVIII . Haste and rashnesse are storms and tempests , break- ing and ...
... better judge of the true intent of it , than by considering who is the author , what is his character in general , and his dis- position in particular . - Pope . XXVIII . Haste and rashnesse are storms and tempests , break- ing and ...
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... better , that it is highly commendable , and what we are strongly exhorted to in many parts of the Bible.- Bishop Hall . XLII . Volatility of words is carelessness in actions ; words are the wings of actions . - Lavater . XLIII . Would ...
... better , that it is highly commendable , and what we are strongly exhorted to in many parts of the Bible.- Bishop Hall . XLII . Volatility of words is carelessness in actions ; words are the wings of actions . - Lavater . XLIII . Would ...
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... better index to point us to the particula- rities of the mind than this , which is itself one the chief distinctions of our rationality . For , as Milton says , -Smiles from reason flow , to brutes , denied- And 12 LACONICS . XLIV. ...
... better index to point us to the particula- rities of the mind than this , which is itself one the chief distinctions of our rationality . For , as Milton says , -Smiles from reason flow , to brutes , denied- And 12 LACONICS . XLIV. ...
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... better than English . His mind is not much distracted with objects , but if a good fat cow come in his way , he stands dumb and astonished , and though his haste be ne- ver so great , will fix here half an hour's contemplation . His ...
... better than English . His mind is not much distracted with objects , but if a good fat cow come in his way , he stands dumb and astonished , and though his haste be ne- ver so great , will fix here half an hour's contemplation . His ...
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... better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so . - Pope . LXXIII . Freeman . Pray inform me what can be worse than what I beheld yesterday ? Can any thing be more pro- voking , than for a man to ...
... better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so . - Pope . LXXIII . Freeman . Pray inform me what can be worse than what I beheld yesterday ? Can any thing be more pro- voking , than for a man to ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
admire Bacon beauty Ben Jonson better body Butler common Confucius Congreve death delight doth drink 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 seldom sense Shakspeare sleep sometimes soul speak sure sweet taste tell temper thee thing thou art thought tion tongue true truth turn twelfth night vex'd virtue wealth whole wisdom wise woman words write youth
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 93 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...