Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, المجلد 21829 |
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الصفحة 73
... thou art My brother : I'll deliver thee a secret : I was at St. Sebastian's , last Sunday , At vespers . Francisco . It is a secret that you went to church ? You need not blush to tell your ghostly father . Fernando . I prithee leave thy ...
... thou art My brother : I'll deliver thee a secret : I was at St. Sebastian's , last Sunday , At vespers . Francisco . It is a secret that you went to church ? You need not blush to tell your ghostly father . Fernando . I prithee leave thy ...
الصفحة 97
... art so freed . On a stony - hearted Maiden - Harrington . CCCXCII . To endeavour to forget any one , is the certain ... thou do nothing for a nobler end , Nothing to make philosophy thy friend ? To stop thy foolish views , thy long ...
... art so freed . On a stony - hearted Maiden - Harrington . CCCXCII . To endeavour to forget any one , is the certain ... thou do nothing for a nobler end , Nothing to make philosophy thy friend ? To stop thy foolish views , thy long ...
الصفحة 120
... art thou to nature ! how strongly are all its powers and all its weaknesses on thy side ! how sweetly dost thou mix with the blood , and help it through the most difficult and tortuous passages to the heart ! -Sterne . CCCCLXXXVIII . I ...
... art thou to nature ! how strongly are all its powers and all its weaknesses on thy side ! how sweetly dost thou mix with the blood , and help it through the most difficult and tortuous passages to the heart ! -Sterne . CCCCLXXXVIII . I ...
الصفحة 197
... thy kitchens be a vestal flame . Thee to the town let never suit at law , And rarely , very rarely , business , draw ... thou art , Act cheerfully and well the allotted part ; Enjoy the present hour , be thankful for the past , And ...
... thy kitchens be a vestal flame . Thee to the town let never suit at law , And rarely , very rarely , business , draw ... thou art , Act cheerfully and well the allotted part ; Enjoy the present hour , be thankful for the past , And ...
الصفحة 213
... thou bear'st , Art nursed by baseness : thou art by no means valiant ; For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm : thy best of rest is sleep , And that thou oft provok'st ; yet grossly fear'st Thy LACONICS . 213.
... thou bear'st , Art nursed by baseness : thou art by no means valiant ; For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm : thy best of rest is sleep , And that thou oft provok'st ; yet grossly fear'st Thy LACONICS . 213.
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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.