Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, المجلد 21829 |
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... idle or melancholy . His hand guides the plough and the plough his thoughts , and his ditch and landmark is the very mound of his meditations . He expostulates with his oxen very understandingly , and speaks gee , and ree , better than ...
... idle or melancholy . His hand guides the plough and the plough his thoughts , and his ditch and landmark is the very mound of his meditations . He expostulates with his oxen very understandingly , and speaks gee , and ree , better than ...
الصفحة 46
... idle , or the indus- trious to be at leisure . We must be always doing , or suffering . - Zimmerman . CLXXXVII . Every county of Great Britain has one hundred or more of fox hunters , who roar instead of speaking ; there- fore , if it ...
... idle , or the indus- trious to be at leisure . We must be always doing , or suffering . - Zimmerman . CLXXXVII . Every county of Great Britain has one hundred or more of fox hunters , who roar instead of speaking ; there- fore , if it ...
الصفحة 77
... idle spectator of the labour of the hands and expedition of the feet . - Johnson . CCCV . * All controversies that can never end , had better per- haps never begin . The best is to take words as they are most commonly spoke and meant ...
... idle spectator of the labour of the hands and expedition of the feet . - Johnson . CCCV . * All controversies that can never end , had better per- haps never begin . The best is to take words as they are most commonly spoke and meant ...
الصفحة 85
... idle men : whether these words differ in meaning , or only in sound , I know very well may be disputed , and with appearance enough ; since the covet- ous man takes as much pleasure in his gains , as the vo- luptuous in his luxury , and ...
... idle men : whether these words differ in meaning , or only in sound , I know very well may be disputed , and with appearance enough ; since the covet- ous man takes as much pleasure in his gains , as the vo- luptuous in his luxury , and ...
الصفحة 121
... much more , if we reckon all that is spent in absolute sloth , or doing of nothing , with that which is spent in idle em- VOL . II . L ployments , or amusements that amount to nothing . Sloth LACONICS . 121 CCCCXC. ...
... much more , if we reckon all that is spent in absolute sloth , or doing of nothing , with that which is spent in idle em- VOL . II . L ployments , or amusements that amount to nothing . Sloth LACONICS . 121 CCCCXC. ...
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Addison Bacon beauty Ben Jonson better body Butler Chesterfield common Congreve delight doth drink Dryden eyes fair fame fear fellow folly fool fortune friends genius give Godfrey Kneller gold Goldsmith gout grace happiness hath hear heart heaven 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 mirth Montaigne nature nerally never o'er observed Ovid pains painting passions person play pleased pleasure Plutarch poet poison'd poor Pope praise pride reason rich seldom Seneca sense Shaftesbury Shakspeare Shenstone sleep sometimes soul speak sure sweet taste Tatler tell temper thee thing thou art thought tion tongue true truth turn vex'd virtue wealth whole wisdom wise woman words write youth
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الصفحة 191 - 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...
الصفحة 257 - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps death his court ; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp...
الصفحة 233 - 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.
الصفحة 207 - 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.
الصفحة 257 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
الصفحة 246 - 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.
الصفحة 264 - 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.
الصفحة 242 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
الصفحة 99 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
الصفحة 121 - ... our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.