Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Том 2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... serves to air him after a washing , and is his only breath and breathing while . He is the greatest enemy to himself , and the next to his friend , and then most in the act of his kindness , for his kindness is but trying a mastery ...
... serves to air him after a washing , and is his only breath and breathing while . He is the greatest enemy to himself , and the next to his friend , and then most in the act of his kindness , for his kindness is but trying a mastery ...
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... serve for plea- santry and farce . Exceeding fierceness , with perfect inability and impotence , makes the highest ridicule.- Shaftesbury . CXIX . The aged man that coffers up his gold , Is plagu'd with cramps , and gouts , and painful ...
... serve for plea- santry and farce . Exceeding fierceness , with perfect inability and impotence , makes the highest ridicule.- Shaftesbury . CXIX . The aged man that coffers up his gold , Is plagu'd with cramps , and gouts , and painful ...
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... serve So great a madness to preserve , As his , that ventures goods and chattels ( Where there's no quarter giv'n ) in battles , And fights with money bags as bold , As men with sandbags did of old ; . Puts lands , and tenements , and ...
... serve So great a madness to preserve , As his , that ventures goods and chattels ( Where there's no quarter giv'n ) in battles , And fights with money bags as bold , As men with sandbags did of old ; . Puts lands , and tenements , and ...
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... served , how he was turned away , before he was received into the service of another ; but at present any vagabond is welcome , provided he pro- mises to enter into our livery . It is wonderful , that we will not take a footman without ...
... served , how he was turned away , before he was received into the service of another ; but at present any vagabond is welcome , provided he pro- mises to enter into our livery . It is wonderful , that we will not take a footman without ...
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... serving them to curse their fooleries with better grace . They have store of gold without knowing how to turn it to advantage ; and , like the innocent Indians , are drained of their riches without receiving a suitable reward . - Burton ...
... serving them to curse their fooleries with better grace . They have store of gold without knowing how to turn it to advantage ; and , like the innocent Indians , are drained of their riches without receiving a suitable reward . - Burton ...
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Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 93 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...