Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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Pagina 9
... kings have pow'r to raise A levy , which the subject pays , And tho ' they call that tax a loan , Yet when't is gather'd ' t is their own ; So he that ' s able to impose A wit - excise on verse or prose , And still the abler authors are ...
... kings have pow'r to raise A levy , which the subject pays , And tho ' they call that tax a loan , Yet when't is gather'd ' t is their own ; So he that ' s able to impose A wit - excise on verse or prose , And still the abler authors are ...
Pagina 18
... kings and queens on twelfth night , hath reference to the three kings . So likewise our eating of fritters , whip- ping of tops , roasting of herrings , jack of lents , & c . , they were all in imitation of church - works , emblems of ...
... kings and queens on twelfth night , hath reference to the three kings . So likewise our eating of fritters , whip- ping of tops , roasting of herrings , jack of lents , & c . , they were all in imitation of church - works , emblems of ...
Pagina 45
... king , emperor , or monarch , and pleases his mind with the vain hopes of even future preferment . The mind of a covetous man sees nothing but his re or spe , and looks at the most valuable objects with an eye of hope , or with the fond ...
... king , emperor , or monarch , and pleases his mind with the vain hopes of even future preferment . The mind of a covetous man sees nothing but his re or spe , and looks at the most valuable objects with an eye of hope , or with the fond ...
Pagina 46
... kings , queens , and knaves . The day lies heavy upon her till the play - sea- son returns , when for a half a dozen hours together all her faculties are employed in shuffling , cutting , dealing , and sorting out a pack of cards , and ...
... kings , queens , and knaves . The day lies heavy upon her till the play - sea- son returns , when for a half a dozen hours together all her faculties are employed in shuffling , cutting , dealing , and sorting out a pack of cards , and ...
Pagina 59
... king- dom ; Domitian said , that nothing was more grateful ; Aristotle affirmed , that beauty was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world : Homer , that ' twas a glorious gift of nature : and Ovid , alluding to him ...
... king- dom ; Domitian said , that nothing was more grateful ; Aristotle affirmed , that beauty was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world : Homer , that ' twas a glorious gift of nature : and Ovid , alluding to him ...
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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...