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 22
... hating nothing but what may stop them.— Sir P. Sidney . LXXXII . I had a friend that lov'd me : I was his soul : he liv'd not but in me : We were so close within each other's breast , The rivets were not found that join'd us first ...
... hating nothing but what may stop them.— Sir P. Sidney . LXXXII . I had a friend that lov'd me : I was his soul : he liv'd not but in me : We were so close within each other's breast , The rivets were not found that join'd us first ...
Pagina 31
... hatred and rage , when the communion of our country is dissolved ! We may flatter ourselves that we may not fall into this misfortune . But we have no charter of exemption , that I know of , from the ordinary frailties of our nature ...
... hatred and rage , when the communion of our country is dissolved ! We may flatter ourselves that we may not fall into this misfortune . But we have no charter of exemption , that I know of , from the ordinary frailties of our nature ...
Pagina 33
... hate this Fame , false avarice of fancy , The sickly shade of an unsolid greatness ! The lying lure of pride that Europe cheats by ! CXXXIV . Hill . 1 Controuled depravity is not innocence ; and it is not the labour of delinquency in ...
... hate this Fame , false avarice of fancy , The sickly shade of an unsolid greatness ! The lying lure of pride that Europe cheats by ! CXXXIV . Hill . 1 Controuled depravity is not innocence ; and it is not the labour of delinquency in ...
Pagina 35
... hate evil , yet give men a pa- tient hearing ; hoping that they will shew proofs that they are not evil . —Sir P. Sidney . CXLV . We all take too much after the wife of Zebedee ; every one would have something , such perhaps as we are ...
... hate evil , yet give men a pa- tient hearing ; hoping that they will shew proofs that they are not evil . —Sir P. Sidney . CXLV . We all take too much after the wife of Zebedee ; every one would have something , such perhaps as we are ...
Pagina 54
... hate thee for saying thou hast been a means of their advancement , than acknowledge it.— Sir W. Raleigh — to his Son . CCXXV . The fire , to see my wrongs , for anger burneth ; The air in rain for my affliction weepeth : The sea , to ...
... hate thee for saying thou hast been a means of their advancement , than acknowledge it.— Sir W. Raleigh — to his Son . CCXXV . The fire , to see my wrongs , for anger burneth ; The air in rain for my affliction weepeth : The sea , to ...
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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?