Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, المجلد 21829 |
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... plays a game with the hang- man for the clothes on his back ; and when he throws out , he strips him to the skin . He dies in hempen sheets , and his body is hanged , like his ancestor Mahomet's , in the air . He might have lived longer ...
... plays a game with the hang- man for the clothes on his back ; and when he throws out , he strips him to the skin . He dies in hempen sheets , and his body is hanged , like his ancestor Mahomet's , in the air . He might have lived longer ...
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... play , without understanding the dia- lect , may , indeed , discover which of the actors are best dressed , and how well the scenes are painted or disposed ; but the characters and conduct of the drama must for ever remain a secret to ...
... play , without understanding the dia- lect , may , indeed , discover which of the actors are best dressed , and how well the scenes are painted or disposed ; but the characters and conduct of the drama must for ever remain a secret to ...
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... play'd . Waller . To a Lady playing on the Lute . XLI . Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy , but emulation ( or laudable ambition ) is actually founded in humility , for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our ...
... play'd . Waller . To a Lady playing on the Lute . XLI . Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy , but emulation ( or laudable ambition ) is actually founded in humility , for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our ...
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... play is dead long since , And not within their power ; for bears are said To spare those that lie still and seem but dead . Prologue by Butler . LXIII . There ought , no doubt , to be heroes in society as well as butchers ; and who ...
... play is dead long since , And not within their power ; for bears are said To spare those that lie still and seem but dead . Prologue by Butler . LXIII . There ought , no doubt , to be heroes in society as well as butchers ; and who ...
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... CXXIV . When princes idly lead about , Those of their party follow suit , Till others trump upon their play , And turn the cards another way . Butler . CXXV . Employment , which Galen calls " nature's physician LACONICS . 31.
... CXXIV . When princes idly lead about , Those of their party follow suit , Till others trump upon their play , And turn the cards another way . Butler . CXXV . Employment , which Galen calls " nature's physician LACONICS . 31.
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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.