Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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Pagina 8
... Human nature is not so much depraved as to hinder us from respecting goodness in others , though we our- selves want it . This is the reason why we are so much charmed with the pretty prattle of children , and even the expressions of ...
... Human nature is not so much depraved as to hinder us from respecting goodness in others , though we our- selves want it . This is the reason why we are so much charmed with the pretty prattle of children , and even the expressions of ...
Pagina 11
... man living good for something ; for there would then be no one member of human society but would have some little pretension for some degree in it . Steele . XLIV . The good yeoman wears russet clothes , but LACONICS . 11.
... man living good for something ; for there would then be no one member of human society but would have some little pretension for some degree in it . Steele . XLIV . The good yeoman wears russet clothes , but LACONICS . 11.
Pagina 12
... human wolf I grant he has a right to his wolfish prerogatives . - Cumberland . XLVI . Law does not put the least restraint Upon our freedom , but maintain ' t ; Or if it does , ' t is for our good , To give us freer latitude ; For ...
... human wolf I grant he has a right to his wolfish prerogatives . - Cumberland . XLVI . Law does not put the least restraint Upon our freedom , but maintain ' t ; Or if it does , ' t is for our good , To give us freer latitude ; For ...
Pagina 20
... human nature resembles a table chequered with compartments of black and white : po- tentates and people have their rise and fall ; cities and families their trines and sextiles , their quartiles and op- positions . - Burton . LXXX ...
... human nature resembles a table chequered with compartments of black and white : po- tentates and people have their rise and fall ; cities and families their trines and sextiles , their quartiles and op- positions . - Burton . LXXX ...
Pagina 28
... human figure . Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face ; she has touched it with vermilion , planted in it a double row of ivory , made it the seat of smiles and blushes , lighted it up and enlivened it with the ...
... human figure . Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face ; she has touched it with vermilion , planted in it a double row of ivory , made it the seat of smiles and blushes , lighted it up and enlivened it with the ...
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admire Bacon beauty Ben Jonson better body Butler common Confucius Congreve death delight doth drink eyes fair fame fear fellow folly fool fortune friends gamester genius give Godfrey Kneller gold gout grace happiness hath hear heart heaven hobby-horse honour Hudibras humour idle Jonson keep kind king labour laugh learning live look looking-glass Lord Bacon Lord Bolingbroke lover man's mankind marriage Massinger men's mind Mirabel mirth nature nerally never o'er observed once Ovid pains painting passions person play pleased pleasure Plutarch poet poison'd poor Pope praise pride reason rich seldom sense Shakspeare sleep sometimes soul speak sure sweet taste tell temper thee thing thou art thought tion tongue true truth turn twelfth night vex'd virtue wealth whole wisdom wise woman words write youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 93 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...