Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...H.G. Bohn, 1856 |
Между кориците на книгата
Резултати 1 - 5 от 39.
Страница 9
... write properly for the English theatre ; I am amazed that none are apprenticed to the trade . The author , when well acquainted with the value of thunder and lightning , when versed in all the mystery of scene - shifting and trap ...
... write properly for the English theatre ; I am amazed that none are apprenticed to the trade . The author , when well acquainted with the value of thunder and lightning , when versed in all the mystery of scene - shifting and trap ...
Страница 10
... writing critic should understand how to write . And though every writer is not bound to show himself in the capacity of critic , every writing cri- tic is bound to show himself capable of being a writer . For if he be apparently ...
... writing critic should understand how to write . And though every writer is not bound to show himself in the capacity of critic , every writing cri- tic is bound to show himself capable of being a writer . For if he be apparently ...
Страница 16
... write , Others to write worse are encourag'd by ' t ; And tho ' those fierce inquisitors of wit , The critics , spare no flesh that ever writ , But just as toothdraw'rs find , among the rout , Their own teeth work in pulling others out ...
... write , Others to write worse are encourag'd by ' t ; And tho ' those fierce inquisitors of wit , The critics , spare no flesh that ever writ , But just as toothdraw'rs find , among the rout , Their own teeth work in pulling others out ...
Страница 20
John Timbs. LXXIV . 74 . Style in pating is the same as in writing ; a power over materials , whether words or colours , by which con- ceptions or sentiments are conveyed .-— Sir J. Reynolds . LXXV.75 Where jealousie is the jailour ...
John Timbs. LXXIV . 74 . Style in pating is the same as in writing ; a power over materials , whether words or colours , by which con- ceptions or sentiments are conveyed .-— Sir J. Reynolds . LXXV.75 Where jealousie is the jailour ...
Страница 25
... 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 . Fade , flow'rs ...
... 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 . Fade , flow'rs ...
Други издания - Преглед на всички
Често срещани думи и фрази
Addison authors Bacon beauty Ben Jonson better body Butler common Confucius Congreve conversation Cynthia's Revels death delight doth Dryden Epictetus eyes fair fame fear fellow folly fool fortune friends genius give Godfrey Kneller gold Goldsmith gout grace happiness hath 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 mirth nature never o'er observed once Ovid pains passions person play pleased pleasure Plutarch poet poison'd poor Pope praise pride reason rich scarce seldom sense Shakspeare Shenstone shew sleep Socrates sometimes soul speak 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
Популярни откъси
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...