Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Том 2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... reason , when too curiously ' t is spun , Is but the next of all remov'd from none . LXXXI . Butler . It is possible that a wise and good man may be pre- vailed on to game ; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a ...
... reason , when too curiously ' t is spun , Is but the next of all remov'd from none . LXXXI . Butler . It is possible that a wise and good man may be pre- vailed on to game ; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a ...
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... reason in his bowls , As Turks are said to do their souls , Until it has so often been Shut out of its lodging , and let in , At length it never can attain To find the right way back again ; Drinks all his time away , and prunes The end ...
... reason in his bowls , As Turks are said to do their souls , Until it has so often been Shut out of its lodging , and let in , At length it never can attain To find the right way back again ; Drinks all his time away , and prunes The end ...
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... reason , and lies open to the mercies of all temptations . No lust but finds him disarmed and fenceless , and with the least assault enters . If any mischief escape him , it was not his fault , for he was laid as fair for it as he could ...
... reason , and lies open to the mercies of all temptations . No lust but finds him disarmed and fenceless , and with the least assault enters . If any mischief escape him , it was not his fault , for he was laid as fair for it as he could ...
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... reason is plain , because the same paintings of nature , which recommend it to the most ordinary reader , will appear beautiful to the most re- fined . The old song of Chevy - Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of ...
... reason is plain , because the same paintings of nature , which recommend it to the most ordinary reader , will appear beautiful to the most re- fined . The old song of Chevy - Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of ...
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... reason , than brute beast , That by two different instincts is led , Born to the one , and to the other bred , And trains him up with rudiments more false Than nature does her stupid animals ; And that's one reason why more care's ...
... reason , than brute beast , That by two different instincts is led , Born to the one , and to the other bred , And trains him up with rudiments more false Than nature does her stupid animals ; And that's one reason why more care's ...
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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...