Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, المجلد 2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... tion of praise allotted him , in which , whilst he lived , bis friends were too profuse , and his enemies too sparing . XVI . I know no friends more faithful , more 4 LACONICS . all fools of eminence, politics or poetry. The ...
... tion of praise allotted him , in which , whilst he lived , bis friends were too profuse , and his enemies too sparing . XVI . I know no friends more faithful , more 4 LACONICS . all fools of eminence, politics or poetry. The ...
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... tion , it is then , if ever , we may believe the face . There is , perhaps , no 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 ...
... tion , it is then , if ever , we may believe the face . There is , perhaps , no 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 ...
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... kind have we been pestered with since the revolu- tion , to go no higher . - Steele . XCIII . Fade , flow'rs ! fade , nature will have it so ' Tis what we must in our autumn do ! And as your leaves lie quiet on the ground , 24 LACONICS .
... kind have we been pestered with since the revolu- tion , to go no higher . - Steele . XCIII . Fade , flow'rs ! fade , nature will have it so ' Tis what we must in our autumn do ! And as your leaves lie quiet on the ground , 24 LACONICS .
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... tion , for fear lest his poyson go further than his antidote . -Fuller . CCVIII . If our sex were wise , a lover should have a certificate from the last woman he served , how he was turned away , before he was received into the service ...
... tion , for fear lest his poyson go further than his antidote . -Fuller . CCVIII . If our sex were wise , a lover should have a certificate from the last woman he served , how he was turned away , before he was received into the service ...
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... tion into the ears of his pupil , as if he were pouring it through a funnel , but , after having put the lad , like a young horse , on a trot , before him , to observe his paces , and see what he is able to perform , should , according ...
... tion into the ears of his pupil , as if he were pouring it through a funnel , but , after having put the lad , like a young horse , on a trot , before him , to observe his paces , and see what he is able to perform , should , according ...
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الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 93 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...