Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, المجلد 21829 |
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... taste of the spirit , and demonstratively point ( as it were a manual note from the margin ) all the internal quality of the soul ; and there cannot be a more evident , palpable , gross manifestation , of poor , degene- rate , dunghilly ...
... taste of the spirit , and demonstratively point ( as it were a manual note from the margin ) all the internal quality of the soul ; and there cannot be a more evident , palpable , gross manifestation , of poor , degene- rate , dunghilly ...
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... taste , how- ever wrong it may be , cannot be totally changed at once ; we must yield a little to the prepossession which has taken hold on the mind , and we may then bring people to adopt what would offend them , if endeavoured to be ...
... taste , how- ever wrong it may be , cannot be totally changed at once ; we must yield a little to the prepossession which has taken hold on the mind , and we may then bring people to adopt what would offend them , if endeavoured to be ...
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... taste , to distin- guish , and to find out things for himself ; sometimes open- ing the way , at other times leaving it to him to open ; and by abating or increasing his own pace , accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil ...
... taste , to distin- guish , and to find out things for himself ; sometimes open- ing the way , at other times leaving it to him to open ; and by abating or increasing his own pace , accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil ...
الصفحة 56
... taste they had at first . He differs from an author as a fiddler does from a musician , that plays other men's compositions , but is not able to make any of his own . All his studies tend to the ruin of the interests of linguists ; for ...
... taste they had at first . He differs from an author as a fiddler does from a musician , that plays other men's compositions , but is not able to make any of his own . All his studies tend to the ruin of the interests of linguists ; for ...
الصفحة 87
... taste thereby the lightest dram of love . CCCXLIX . Gascoigne . Some are too indolent to read any thing , till its repu- tation is established : others too envious to promote that fame which gives them pain by its increase . What is new ...
... taste thereby the lightest dram of love . CCCXLIX . Gascoigne . Some are too indolent to read any thing , till its repu- tation is established : others too envious to promote that fame which gives them pain by its increase . What is new ...
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Astrology Bacon beauty Ben Jonson better body Butler common Confucius Congreve delight doth drink endeavour 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 scarce seldom sense Shakspeare Shenstone sleep sometimes soul speak sure sweet taste 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.