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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... passion , as that the mind hath a free desire to do well , the in- ward light each mind hath in itself is as good as a philosopher's book ; since in nature we know that it is well to do well , and what is good , and what is evil ...
... passion , as that the mind hath a free desire to do well , the in- ward light each mind hath in itself is as good as a philosopher's book ; since in nature we know that it is well to do well , and what is good , and what is evil ...
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... passion move , To live with thee , and be thy love . But fading flowers in every field , To winter floods their treasures yield ; A honey'd tongue , a heart of gall , Is fancy's spring , but sorrow's fall . Sir W. Raleigh - Answer to ...
... passion move , To live with thee , and be thy love . But fading flowers in every field , To winter floods their treasures yield ; A honey'd tongue , a heart of gall , Is fancy's spring , but sorrow's fall . Sir W. Raleigh - Answer to ...
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... Passions are likened best to floods and streams : The shallow murmur , but the deep are dumb So , when affections yield discourse , it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come : They that are rich in words must needs diseover ...
... Passions are likened best to floods and streams : The shallow murmur , but the deep are dumb So , when affections yield discourse , it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come : They that are rich in words must needs diseover ...
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... passion , and the surest symptom of a sordid and sickly mind . — Char- ron . L. Noble hearted seamen are Those that do no labour spare , Nor no danger shun or fear , To do their country pleasure . In loyalty they do abound , Nothing ...
... passion , and the surest symptom of a sordid and sickly mind . — Char- ron . L. Noble hearted seamen are Those that do no labour spare , Nor no danger shun or fear , To do their country pleasure . In loyalty they do abound , Nothing ...
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... passions.- Sir P. Sidney . LXVI . As long as you are engaged in the world , you must comply with its maxims ; because nothing is more un- profitable , than the wisdom of those persons who set up for reformers of the age . " Tis a part a ...
... passions.- Sir P. Sidney . LXVI . As long as you are engaged in the world , you must comply with its maxims ; because nothing is more un- profitable , than the wisdom of those persons who set up for reformers of the age . " Tis a part a ...
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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?