Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumul 2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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Pagina 23
... short the branches of a vine , To make it bear more plenty o ' wine ; And that which nature did intend T'enlarge his life , perverts t ' its end . XCI . Butler . A drunkard is one that will be a man to - morrow morn- ing , but is now ...
... short the branches of a vine , To make it bear more plenty o ' wine ; And that which nature did intend T'enlarge his life , perverts t ' its end . XCI . Butler . A drunkard is one that will be a man to - morrow morn- ing , but is now ...
Pagina 28
... short , she seems to have designed the head as the cupola to the most glorious of her works ; and when we load it with a pile of supernu- merary ornaments , we destroy the symmetry of the hu- man figure , and foolishly contrive to call ...
... short , she seems to have designed the head as the cupola to the most glorious of her works ; and when we load it with a pile of supernu- merary ornaments , we destroy the symmetry of the hu- man figure , and foolishly contrive to call ...
Pagina 31
... short , when you are once in , and have a good deal more to say . Neither is there any thing in which the force and readiness of a horse is so much seen , as in a round , graceful , and sudden stop ; and I see even those who are ...
... short , when you are once in , and have a good deal more to say . Neither is there any thing in which the force and readiness of a horse is so much seen , as in a round , graceful , and sudden stop ; and I see even those who are ...
Pagina 36
... 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 lives by it ; while a gen ...
... 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 lives by it ; while a gen ...
Pagina 41
... two o'clock in the morning , and looking like a spectre amidst a glare of flambeaux . In short , I never knew a thorough - paced female gamester hold her beauty D2 LACONICS . 41 pit, it was pity he should ever come out ...
... two o'clock in the morning , and looking like a spectre amidst a glare of flambeaux . In short , I never knew a thorough - paced female gamester hold her beauty D2 LACONICS . 41 pit, it was pity he should ever come out ...
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Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 93 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...