Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Том 3H.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1856 |
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... less of what is delicate , savory , and well concocted , than smaller pieces . F. Osborn . I. WEIGH not so much what men say , as what they prove ; remembering that truth is simple and naked , and needs not invective to apparel her ...
... less of what is delicate , savory , and well concocted , than smaller pieces . F. Osborn . I. WEIGH not so much what men say , as what they prove ; remembering that truth is simple and naked , and needs not invective to apparel her ...
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... less than loss of wits . Unhappy life they gain , Which love do entertain . XVI . Sir W. Raleigh . Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry ; and he that is not industrious envieth him that is : besides , noble persons cannot go much ...
... less than loss of wits . Unhappy life they gain , Which love do entertain . XVI . Sir W. Raleigh . Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry ; and he that is not industrious envieth him that is : besides , noble persons cannot go much ...
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... less common , yet they are not less natural than those that are more frequent among men ; for if humour itself be forced , it loses all the grace ; which has been indeed the fault of some of our poets most celebrated in this kind ...
... less common , yet they are not less natural than those that are more frequent among men ; for if humour itself be forced , it loses all the grace ; which has been indeed the fault of some of our poets most celebrated in this kind ...
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... less , because they are universal.— Burke . XLIII . Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life . - Sidney . XLIV . Others may use the ocean as their road , Only the English make it their abode ; Whose ready sails ...
... less , because they are universal.— Burke . XLIII . Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life . - Sidney . XLIV . Others may use the ocean as their road , Only the English make it their abode ; Whose ready sails ...
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... less evil a guilty man should escape , than a guiltless perish . — Sir P. Sidney . LVI . Ladies , though to your conquering eyes Love owes its chiefest victories , And borrows those bright arms from you With which he does the world ...
... less evil a guilty man should escape , than a guiltless perish . — Sir P. Sidney . LVI . Ladies , though to your conquering eyes Love owes its chiefest victories , And borrows those bright arms from you With which he does the world ...
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Страница 266 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Страница 232 - But know that in the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as Chief; among these Fancy next Her office holds ; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes, Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell, when nature rests.
Страница 125 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Страница 337 - Now the bright morning star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.
Страница 120 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Страница 152 - But there is no such man ; for, brother, men Can counsel, and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel ; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Charm ache with air, and agony with words.
Страница 333 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text...
Страница 263 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Страница 103 - Nay, do not think I flatter ; For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Страница 330 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peer?