Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, المجلد 21829 |
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الصفحة 17
... youth , and has some thrifty hob - nail proverbs to clout his discourse . He is a niggard all the week , except only market day , where , if his corn sell well , he thinks he may be drunk with a good conscience . He is sensible of no ...
... youth , and has some thrifty hob - nail proverbs to clout his discourse . He is a niggard all the week , except only market day , where , if his corn sell well , he thinks he may be drunk with a good conscience . He is sensible of no ...
الصفحة 20
... youth , and comfort in age . learning the useful part of every profession , very moderate abilities will suffice ; even if the mind be a little balanced with stupidity , it may in this case be useful . Great abi- lities have always been ...
... youth , and comfort in age . learning the useful part of every profession , very moderate abilities will suffice ; even if the mind be a little balanced with stupidity , it may in this case be useful . Great abi- lities have always been ...
الصفحة 21
... youth , and traduce superiors . When do we bring a vice upon the stage , That does go off unpunish'd ? Do we teach , By the success of wicked undertakings , Others to tread in their forbidden footsteps ? We show no arts of Lydian ...
... youth , and traduce superiors . When do we bring a vice upon the stage , That does go off unpunish'd ? Do we teach , By the success of wicked undertakings , Others to tread in their forbidden footsteps ? We show no arts of Lydian ...
الصفحة 94
... youth , false slave to false delight , Base watch of woes , sin's pack - horse , virtue's snare : Thou nursest all , and murderest all that are . CCCLXXX . Shakspeare . People of quality are fine things , indeed , if they had but a ...
... youth , false slave to false delight , Base watch of woes , sin's pack - horse , virtue's snare : Thou nursest all , and murderest all that are . CCCLXXX . Shakspeare . People of quality are fine things , indeed , if they had but a ...
الصفحة 99
... youth , Cannot live together ; Youth is full of pleasance , Age is full of care : Youth like summer morn , Age like winter weather ; Youth like summer brave , Age like winter bare , Youth is full of sport , Age's breath is short ...
... youth , Cannot live together ; Youth is full of pleasance , Age is full of care : Youth like summer morn , Age like winter weather ; Youth like summer brave , Age like winter bare , Youth is full of sport , Age's breath is short ...
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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.