Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volumul 3H.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1856 |
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Pagina 7
... Death is natural to man , but slavery unnatural ; and the moment you strip a man of his liberty , you strip him of all his virtues ; you convert his heart into a dark hole , into which all the vices conspire against you.- LACONICS . ๆ.
... Death is natural to man , but slavery unnatural ; and the moment you strip a man of his liberty , you strip him of all his virtues ; you convert his heart into a dark hole , into which all the vices conspire against you.- LACONICS . ๆ.
Pagina 23
... death itself to affect them . Hence it is that , upon very good ground , we object to them , that they allow too much to their senses upon the stage . — St . Evremond - on Tragedy . LXXXV . Abused mortals ! did you know Where joy ...
... death itself to affect them . Hence it is that , upon very good ground , we object to them , that they allow too much to their senses upon the stage . — St . Evremond - on Tragedy . LXXXV . Abused mortals ! did you know Where joy ...
Pagina 39
... death , and yet afraid of shame . Nature has wove into the human mind This anxious care of names we leave behind , To extend our narrow views beyond the tomb , And give an earnest of a life to come ; For , if when dead , we are but dust ...
... death , and yet afraid of shame . Nature has wove into the human mind This anxious care of names we leave behind , To extend our narrow views beyond the tomb , And give an earnest of a life to come ; For , if when dead , we are but dust ...
Pagina 49
... Death only this mysterious truth unfolds , The mighty soul how small a body holds . CCV . Dryden . I know , and have long felt , the difficulty of reconciling the unwieldy haughtiness of a great ruling nation , habit- uated to command ...
... Death only this mysterious truth unfolds , The mighty soul how small a body holds . CCV . Dryden . I know , and have long felt , the difficulty of reconciling the unwieldy haughtiness of a great ruling nation , habit- uated to command ...
Pagina 55
... death fears her displeasure . Fie , death ! thou art beguiled , Tho ' I be hers , she makes of me no treasure . CCXXVI . Sir P. Sidney . The disesteem and contempt of others is inseparable from pride . It is hardly possible to overvalue ...
... death fears her displeasure . Fie , death ! thou art beguiled , Tho ' I be hers , she makes of me no treasure . CCXXVI . Sir P. Sidney . The disesteem and contempt of others is inseparable from pride . It is hardly possible to overvalue ...
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Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson better Brown Burke charms Charron Churchill Clarendon court creature death Defence of Poesy delight divine doth Dryden ears earth Elizium esteem ev'ry evil Evremond eyes fair fall fame fancy fear flowers folly fools fortune friends give Goldsmith grace grow happy hate hath heart heaven honour humour king knowledge labour laugh learning liberty light live look Lord Bacon man's men's Milton mind nature never o'er Overbury passion pleasure poor praise pride racter Raleigh reason rich Roscommon Samson Agonistes Saville Sejanus sense Shakspeare shame shew shine Sidney Sir W soul Spenser spirit spleen strong madness sweet taste Tatler Temple thee things thou art thought thro thyself Tom Brown tongue true truth unto vice virtue whilst wind wisdom wise woman words wretched Young
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Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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!
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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?