Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Том 2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... stands in his light , when the devil holds a candle to him ; for he has stretched it so thin that it is transparent . He is an engineer of treachery , fraud , and perfidiousness ; and knows how to manage matters of great weight with ...
... stands in his light , when the devil holds a candle to him ; for he has stretched it so thin that it is transparent . He is an engineer of treachery , fraud , and perfidiousness ; and knows how to manage matters of great weight with ...
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... stands dumb and astonished , and though his haste be ne- ver so great , will fix here half an hour's contemplation . His habitation is some poor thatched roof , distinguished from his barn by the loop - holes that let out smoke , which ...
... stands dumb and astonished , and though his haste be ne- ver so great , will fix here half an hour's contemplation . His habitation is some poor thatched roof , distinguished from his barn by the loop - holes that let out smoke , which ...
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... stand , nor walk , nor , in short , laugh , nor cry , nor take snuff , like a man of sense . How obvious the distinction ! -Shenstone . CXLIV . He is treated like a fiddler , whose music , though liked , is not much praised , because he ...
... stand , nor walk , nor , in short , laugh , nor cry , nor take snuff , like a man of sense . How obvious the distinction ! -Shenstone . CXLIV . He is treated like a fiddler , whose music , though liked , is not much praised , because he ...
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... the other . If he does not perfectly under- stand the full meaning of his author as well as he did himself , he is but a copier , and therefore never comes near the mastery of the original ; and his labours LACONICS . 55.
... the other . If he does not perfectly under- stand the full meaning of his author as well as he did himself , he is but a copier , and therefore never comes near the mastery of the original ; and his labours LACONICS . 55.
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... stand that which they may know as well without them . -Butler . CCXXIV . Trust him little who praises all , him less who censures all , and him least who is indifferent about all . - Lavater . CCXXV . There is no rule in the world to be ...
... stand that which they may know as well without them . -Butler . CCXXIV . Trust him little who praises all , him less who censures all , and him least who is indifferent about all . - Lavater . CCXXV . There is no rule in the world to be ...
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Страница 183 - 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...
Страница 277 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Страница 223 - 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.
Страница 199 - 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.
Страница 238 - 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.
Страница 258 - 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.
Страница 223 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Страница 181 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Страница 178 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Страница 93 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...