Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, 第 2 巻Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... become a sort of creditors : and these debts , being debts of honour , ought , according to the accustomed maxim , to be discharged first . - Steele . CCCCLXXXVII . Flattery - Delicious essence ! how refreshing art thou to nature ! how ...
... become a sort of creditors : and these debts , being debts of honour , ought , according to the accustomed maxim , to be discharged first . - Steele . CCCCLXXXVII . Flattery - Delicious essence ! how refreshing art thou to nature ! how ...
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... its light ; and that , by the continual waste of aqueous particles , the whole earth will at last become a sandy desert . I would not advise my readers to disturb themselves by contriving how they shall live without LACONICS . 147.
... its light ; and that , by the continual waste of aqueous particles , the whole earth will at last become a sandy desert . I would not advise my readers to disturb themselves by contriving how they shall live without LACONICS . 147.
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... become in the end them- selves sacrifices to the inconstancy of fortune , whose wings they thought by their self - wisdom to have pinioned.- Lord Bacon . DCCCV . If you would have a faithful servant , and one that you like , serve ...
... become in the end them- selves sacrifices to the inconstancy of fortune , whose wings they thought by their self - wisdom to have pinioned.- Lord Bacon . DCCCV . If you would have a faithful servant , and one that you like , serve ...
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... . - Franklin . DCCCCLXXIX . I like her with all her faults ; nay , like her for her faults . Her follies are so natural , or so artful , that they become her ; and those affectations which in another woman 244 LACONICS .
... . - Franklin . DCCCCLXXIX . I like her with all her faults ; nay , like her for her faults . Her follies are so natural , or so artful , that they become her ; and those affectations which in another woman 244 LACONICS .
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Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors John Timbs. become her ; and those affectations which in another woman would be odious , serve but to make her more agreeable . I'll tell thee ... become her; and those affectations which in another ...
Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors John Timbs. become her ; and those affectations which in another woman would be odious , serve but to make her more agreeable . I'll tell thee ... become her; and those affectations which in another ...
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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...