Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, 第 3 巻1829 |
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... ears , gives a nobler superiority than power that every dunce may use , or fraud that every knave may employ , to lead them by the nose . But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring , and not spout forth a ...
... ears , gives a nobler superiority than power that every dunce may use , or fraud that every knave may employ , to lead them by the nose . But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring , and not spout forth a ...
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... ears , it must be gently led , or rather , it must lead , which was partly the cause that made the learned antient affirm ; it was a divine , and no human skill , since all other knowledge is ready for any that have strength of wit . A ...
... ears , it must be gently led , or rather , it must lead , which was partly the cause that made the learned antient affirm ; it was a divine , and no human skill , since all other knowledge is ready for any that have strength of wit . A ...
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... ears , And plant in tyrants mild humility . CCCXL . Shakspeare . The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquillity , until men are firmly convinced , that con- VOL . III . H science , honour , and credit , are all in ...
... ears , And plant in tyrants mild humility . CCCXL . Shakspeare . The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquillity , until men are firmly convinced , that con- VOL . III . H science , honour , and credit , are all in ...
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... ear , light - waving to the gale , She wore the plumage of a peacock's tail , Which nodding o'er her round unmeaning ... ears she pricks up to herself to list , And spatters all her meaning in a mist . Wise in conceit she seems , for all ...
... ear , light - waving to the gale , She wore the plumage of a peacock's tail , Which nodding o'er her round unmeaning ... ears she pricks up to herself to list , And spatters all her meaning in a mist . Wise in conceit she seems , for all ...
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... ear ! At which you hang a pendant , Not to adorn , but ulcerate : while the honest Nobility , like pictures in the arras , Serve only for court ornaments : If they speak , " Tis when you set their tongues ; which you wind up Like clocks ...
... ear ! At which you hang a pendant , Not to adorn , but ulcerate : while the honest Nobility , like pictures in the arras , Serve only for court ornaments : If they speak , " Tis when you set their tongues ; which you wind up Like clocks ...
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Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson better breath Brown charms Churchill colours court creature death Defence of Poesy delight divine doth Dryden ears earth Elizium ev'ry evil Evremond eyes fair fall fame fancy fear flowers folly fools fortune friends give gold grace grow happy hate hath heart heaven honour hour humour king knowledge labour laugh learning liberty light live look man's marriage men's Milton mind mortal nature never night o'er Overbury pain passion pleasure poets poor praise pride Raleigh reason rich Roscommon Sejanus sense Shakspeare shame shine Sidney soul Spenser spirit spleen strong madness sweet taste Tatler Temple thee Theocritus things thou art thought thyself Tom Brown tongue true truth unto vice virtue wheel of fortune whilst wind wisdom wise woman words wretched Young
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311 ページ - Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
294 ページ - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
109 ページ - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
239 ページ - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
47 ページ - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
248 ページ - My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow. An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze. Two hundred to adore each breast: But thirty thousand to the rest. An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart. For, lady, you deserve this state; Nor would I love at lower rate.
114 ページ - But he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner...
15 ページ - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
300 ページ - Now the bright morning star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.
258 ページ - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.