Laconics, Or The Best Words of the Best AuthorsH.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1856 |
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... carry the notion of wit so far , as to ascribe it even to external mimicry ; and to look upon a man as an ingenious person , that can re- semble the tone , posture , or face of another .-- Addison . VIII . There never was any party ...
... carry the notion of wit so far , as to ascribe it even to external mimicry ; and to look upon a man as an ingenious person , that can re- semble the tone , posture , or face of another .-- Addison . VIII . There never was any party ...
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... carry an air of supe- riority over the rest of the company , and therefore is most likely to please them ; for this purpose we should store our memory with short anecdotes and entertaining pieces of history . Almost every one listens ...
... carry an air of supe- riority over the rest of the company , and therefore is most likely to please them ; for this purpose we should store our memory with short anecdotes and entertaining pieces of history . Almost every one listens ...
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... carried merely by instinct , as a rat to the best cheese , or a wasp to the fairest flower . Lastly , I define a true critic to be , in the perusal of a book , like a dog at a feast , whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what ...
... carried merely by instinct , as a rat to the best cheese , or a wasp to the fairest flower . Lastly , I define a true critic to be , in the perusal of a book , like a dog at a feast , whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what ...
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... carry them a shorter way to riches and honour , disappoint them of both for ever , and make plain their ruin is from themselves , and that they eat the fruits which their own hands have watered and ripened . - Sterne . CCCVII . I think ...
... carry them a shorter way to riches and honour , disappoint them of both for ever , and make plain their ruin is from themselves , and that they eat the fruits which their own hands have watered and ripened . - Sterne . CCCVII . I think ...
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... carried away by the two grand preservatives of matrimonial friendship , delicacy and gratitude . There is also another distemper very mortal to the honey - moon , ' tis what the ladies sometimes are seized with , aud the college of ...
... carried away by the two grand preservatives of matrimonial friendship , delicacy and gratitude . There is also another distemper very mortal to the honey - moon , ' tis what the ladies sometimes are seized with , aud the college of ...
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Æsop Apicius bagnio beauty Ben Jonson better body Bruyere Butler Chesterfield Churchill Codrus common conversation death delight dicebox doth dress enemy Epictetus Euripides evil eyes false fame fancy fear folly fools fortune friends genius gentleman give greatest happiness hath heart honest honour Hudibras human humour ignorance inns of court judgment keep kind knave laugh learning less live look Lord Lord Bacon man's mankind manner marriage Massinger matter merit mind Montaigne nature neral never numbers observed opinion pain pass passion pedants person philosopher pleasure Plutarch poet poor praise pride proud racter reason rich ridiculous Roman triumph satire seldom sense Shaftesbury Shakspeare Shenstone soul speak stand sure Swift tell thing thou thought tion true truth turn Twill vanity vice virtue whilst whole wise words write young
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الصفحة 14 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
الصفحة 80 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
الصفحة 24 - Tam was glorious, o'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! " But pleasures are like poppies spread : you seize the flower, its bloom is shed; or like the snow falls in the river, a moment white — then melts for ever; or like the Borealis' race, that flit ere you can point their place; or like the rainbow's lovely form evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; the hour approaches Tam maun ride: that hour, o...
الصفحة 350 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
الصفحة 350 - And summer's lease hath all too short a date ; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd ; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd. But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest ; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest.
الصفحة 67 - I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there ; if I take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand hold me,
الصفحة 102 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
الصفحة 47 - In the youth of a state, arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.
الصفحة 34 - A word to the wise is enough, and many words wont fill a bushel, as Poor Richard says." They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows; "Friends," says he, and neighbours, "the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride,...
الصفحة 127 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit, are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, -when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day : demands it before he can receive it in a lump.