Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... rules set to these leviathans , as are to the sea , " Hitherto shalt thou go , and no further . " - Cowley . CXV . The jealous is possessed by a " fine mad devil , " and a dull spirit at once . - Lavater . CXVI . A table without music ...
... rules set to these leviathans , as are to the sea , " Hitherto shalt thou go , and no further . " - Cowley . CXV . The jealous is possessed by a " fine mad devil , " and a dull spirit at once . - Lavater . CXVI . A table without music ...
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... rules and precepts and examples , To put his wits into any kind of trammels . СХСІІ . Butler . All play debts must be paid in specie , or by an equi- valent . The man that plays beyond his income pawns his estate : the woman must find ...
... rules and precepts and examples , To put his wits into any kind of trammels . СХСІІ . Butler . All play debts must be paid in specie , or by an equi- valent . The man that plays beyond his income pawns his estate : the woman must find ...
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... rules , and support the carriage of a companion to his mistress , is much more likely to prevail , than he who lets her see the whole relish of his life depends upon her . If possible , therefore , divert your mistress rather than sigh ...
... rules , and support the carriage of a companion to his mistress , is much more likely to prevail , than he who lets her see the whole relish of his life depends upon her . If possible , therefore , divert your mistress rather than sigh ...
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... rule in the world to be made for writing letters , but that of being as near what you speak face to face as you can ; which is so great a truth , that I am of opinion , writing has lost more mistresses than any one mistake in the whole ...
... rule in the world to be made for writing letters , but that of being as near what you speak face to face as you can ; which is so great a truth , that I am of opinion , writing has lost more mistresses than any one mistake in the whole ...
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... rule and prescription , and dares not show his teeth without Machiavel . He converses with his neighbour as he would in Spain , and fears an inquisitive man as much as an inquisition . He suspects all questions for examinations , and ...
... rule and prescription , and dares not show his teeth without Machiavel . He converses with his neighbour as he would in Spain , and fears an inquisitive man as much as an inquisition . He suspects all questions for examinations , and ...
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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...