Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, 第 2 巻Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... be repaid you , if bashfulness has once softened or turned the edge of that diffidence which ought to be your guard.- Plutarch , XXVII . It is a common and just observation , LACONICS . With moderation; but, when their excess, ...
... be repaid you , if bashfulness has once softened or turned the edge of that diffidence which ought to be your guard.- Plutarch , XXVII . It is a common and just observation , LACONICS . With moderation; but, when their excess, ...
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... observation , that , when the meaning of any thing is dubious , one can no way better judge of the true intent of it , than by considering who is the author , what is his character in general , and his dis- position in particular ...
... observation , that , when the meaning of any thing is dubious , one can no way better judge of the true intent of it , than by considering who is the author , what is his character in general , and his dis- position in particular ...
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... observations upon his laugh , whether he is easily moved , and what are the passages which throw him into that agreeable kind of convulsion . People are never so much unguarded as when they are pleased ; and laughter being a visible ...
... observations upon his laugh , whether he is easily moved , and what are the passages which throw him into that agreeable kind of convulsion . People are never so much unguarded as when they are pleased ; and laughter being a visible ...
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... observation of seamen , that if a single meteor or fire - ball falls on their mast , it portends ill luck ; but if two come together , ( which they count Castor and Pollux ) they presage good success . sure in a family it bodeth most ...
... observation of seamen , that if a single meteor or fire - ball falls on their mast , it portends ill luck ; but if two come together , ( which they count Castor and Pollux ) they presage good success . sure in a family it bodeth most ...
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... observed in several of my intimate friends , who as their memories supply them with a present and entire view of things , derive their narratives from so remote a fountain , and crowd them with so many impertinent circumstances , that ...
... observed in several of my intimate friends , who as their memories supply them with a present and entire view of things , derive their narratives from so remote a fountain , and crowd them with so many impertinent circumstances , that ...
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183 ページ - 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...
277 ページ - 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.
223 ページ - 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.
199 ページ - 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.
238 ページ - 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.
258 ページ - 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.
223 ページ - 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...
181 ページ - 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.
178 ページ - 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.
93 ページ - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...