Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...H.G. Bohn, 1856 |
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... head to one of those two amusements for all fools of eminence , politics or poetry . The former of these arts is the study of all dull people in general ; but when dulness is lodged in a person of a quick animal life , it generally ...
... head to one of those two amusements for all fools of eminence , politics or poetry . The former of these arts is the study of all dull people in general ; but when dulness is lodged in a person of a quick animal life , it generally ...
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... head within his jaws , will carry the rest of Lam nang- ing out at his mouth , until by degrees he has digested him all . He has a hundred tricks to slip his neck out of the pillory without leaving his ears behind . As for the gal- lows ...
... head within his jaws , will carry the rest of Lam nang- ing out at his mouth , until by degrees he has digested him all . He has a hundred tricks to slip his neck out of the pillory without leaving his ears behind . As for the gal- lows ...
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... head , that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a faint con- strained kind of half laugh , as such persons are never without some diffidence about them : but that of fools is the most honest , natural , open laugh in the ...
... head , that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a faint con- strained kind of half laugh , as such persons are never without some diffidence about them : but that of fools is the most honest , natural , open laugh in the ...
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... head , sets up for a writer of songs , and resolves to immortalize his bottle or his mistress . What a world of insipid productions in this kind have we been pestered with since the revolution , to go no higher . - Steele . XCIII . 93 ...
... head , sets up for a writer of songs , and resolves to immortalize his bottle or his mistress . What a world of insipid productions in this kind have we been pestered with since the revolution , to go no higher . - Steele . XCIII . 93 ...
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... head has the most beautiful appearance , as well as the highest station , in a human figure . Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face ; she has touched it with vermilion , planted in it a double row of ivory , made it ...
... head has the most beautiful appearance , as well as the highest station , in a human figure . Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face ; she has touched it with vermilion , planted in it a double row of ivory , made it ...
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Страница 304 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Страница 291 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do: Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Страница 293 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends, thou aim'st at, be thy country's, 4 — — make use — 1 ie make interest. Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Страница 257 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Страница 224 - 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.
Страница 232 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Страница 192 - Thou art not thyself; For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains That issue out of dust : happy thou art not : For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get i And what thou hast, forget'st : thou art not certain ; For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, After the moon : if thou art rich, thou art poor ; For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee...
Страница 172 - 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: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to...
Страница 171 - When Love with unconfine'd wings Hovers within my Gates ; And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the Grates : When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The Birds, that wanton in the Air, Know no such Liberty.
Страница 236 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots...