Character Writings of the Seventeenth CenturyHenry Morley G. Routledge, 1891 - 445 páginas |
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... reason to afford him no character . Of this kind are the CHARACTERS BY SIR THOMAS OVERBURY , which were not published until 1614 , the year after their writer's death , at the age of thirty - two ; but they may have been written earlier ...
... reason to afford him no character . Of this kind are the CHARACTERS BY SIR THOMAS OVERBURY , which were not published until 1614 , the year after their writer's death , at the age of thirty - two ; but they may have been written earlier ...
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... reason , though he can a piece of gold . He is not plucked , for his feathers are his beauty , and more than his beauty , they are his discretion , his countenance , his all . He is now at an end , for he hath had the wolf of vainglory ...
... reason , though he can a piece of gold . He is not plucked , for his feathers are his beauty , and more than his beauty , they are his discretion , his countenance , his all . He is now at an end , for he hath had the wolf of vainglory ...
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... reason there is marriage ; the issue are his actions . He circuits his intents , and seeth the end before he shoot . Men are the instruments of his art , and there is no man without his use . Occasion incites him , none enticeth him ...
... reason there is marriage ; the issue are his actions . He circuits his intents , and seeth the end before he shoot . Men are the instruments of his art , and there is no man without his use . Occasion incites him , none enticeth him ...
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... reason to be no idle gift of nature , he is the steersman of his own destiny . Truth is the goddess , and he takes pains to get her , not to look like her . He knows the con- dition of the world , that he must act one thing like another ...
... reason to be no idle gift of nature , he is the steersman of his own destiny . Truth is the goddess , and he takes pains to get her , not to look like her . He knows the con- dition of the world , that he must act one thing like another ...
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... reason of opportunity , or for want of a better , he always cuckolds himself , and never marries but his own widow . His master being appeased , he becomes a retainer , and entails him- self and his posterity upon his heir - males for ...
... reason of opportunity , or for want of a better , he always cuckolds himself , and never marries but his own widow . His master being appeased , he becomes a retainer , and entails him- self and his posterity upon his heir - males for ...
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acquaintance actions Apparitor believes better bluecaps body Characters charity church clothes comes command committee-man commonly conceit conscience court creature dare death delight devil discourse diseases diurnal doth ears edition enemy face fashion fear fool Geneva Bible gentleman give glory goes grace hand hate hath heart heaven Hobson's Choice Holinshed honest honour horse humour John Birkenhead Joseph Hall judgment justice keeps kind king knows labour learning lives look man's men's mercy mind mountebank nature never NICHOLAS BRETON opinion Owen Feltham patience Peter Bales Philip Bliss pleasure poet poor praise reason religion Roundhead scholar seldom servant soul speak spirit stands strange sure talk things thinks Thomas Hobson tongue trouble truth understanding University Carrier unworthy valour vice virtue walk wears wisdom wise words worse worthy WORTHY PRINCE write
Passagens conhecidas
Página 100 - Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day, With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all.
Página 99 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill...
Página 157 - A Child is a man in a small letter, yet the best copy of Adam before he tasted of Eve or the apple; and he is happy whose small practice in the world can only write his character. He is nature's fresh picture newly drawn in oil, which time, and much handling, dims and defaces.
Página 292 - Twas such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down ; For he...
Página 70 - ... to do well. She bestows her year's wages at next fair, and in choosing her garments counts no bravery in the world like decency.
Página 313 - All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe ' found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire and had governed long, In prose and verse was owned without dispute Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute.
Página 88 - ... penknives. When he builds ^no poor tenant's cottage hinders his prospect : they are indeed his almshouses, though there be painted on them no such superscription. He never sits up late but when he hunts the badger, the vowed foe of his lambs...
Página 158 - We laugh at his foolish sports, but his game is our earnest ; and his drums, rattles, and hobby-horses but the emblems and mocking of men's business.
Página 158 - He is the Christian's example, and the old man's relapse; the one imitates his pureness, and the other falls into his simplicity. Could he put off his body with his little coat, he had got eternity without a burden, and exchanged but one heaven for another.
Página 374 - ... Self-Martyrdom than part with the least Scruple of his Freehold; for it is impossible to dye his dark Ignorance into a lighter Colour. He is resolved to understand no Man's Reason but his own, because he finds no Man can understand his but himself. His Wits are like a Sack, which, the French Proverb says, is tied faster before it is full, than when it is ; and his Opinions are like Plants that grow upon Rocks, that stick fast though they have no Rooting. His Understanding is hardened like Phar\ao\h's...