Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, المجلد 21829 |
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... temper , I generally make my first observations upon his laugh , whether he is easily moved , and what are the passages which throw him into that agreeable kind of convulsion . People are never so much unguarded as when they are pleased ...
... temper , I generally make my first observations upon his laugh , whether he is easily moved , and what are the passages which throw him into that agreeable kind of convulsion . People are never so much unguarded as when they are pleased ...
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... temper is not an acquired , but a natural excellence ; and , therefore , to recommend it to those who have it not , may be deemed rather an insult than advice . - Adventurer . CXLVI . Philosophy , a name of meek degree , Embrac'd in ...
... temper is not an acquired , but a natural excellence ; and , therefore , to recommend it to those who have it not , may be deemed rather an insult than advice . - Adventurer . CXLVI . Philosophy , a name of meek degree , Embrac'd in ...
الصفحة 74
... ; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes , Unlocks his gold , and counts it till he dies . CCXCIV . Johnson . As the sword of the best tempered metall is most flexible ; so the truly generous are most pliant and 74 LACONICS .
... ; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes , Unlocks his gold , and counts it till he dies . CCXCIV . Johnson . As the sword of the best tempered metall is most flexible ; so the truly generous are most pliant and 74 LACONICS .
الصفحة 109
... tempers who want mirth to be pleased , are like the constitutions which flag without the use of brandy . Therefore , I say , let your precept be , " be easy . " That mind is dissolute and ungoverned , which must be hurried out of itself ...
... tempers who want mirth to be pleased , are like the constitutions which flag without the use of brandy . Therefore , I say , let your precept be , " be easy . " That mind is dissolute and ungoverned , which must be hurried out of itself ...
الصفحة 125
... temper , but it is his temper that sours his religion . People of gloomy , uncheerful imaginations , or of envious , malignant tempers , whatever kind of life they are engaged in , will discover their natural tincture of mind in all ...
... temper , but it is his temper that sours his religion . People of gloomy , uncheerful imaginations , or of envious , malignant tempers , whatever kind of life they are engaged in , will discover their natural tincture of mind in all ...
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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.