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 32
... liberty which Englishmen give their domestics ; and for my own part , I cannot avoid being pleased at the happiness of those poor creatures , who in some measure con- tribute to mine . The Athenians , the politest and best- natured ...
... liberty which Englishmen give their domestics ; and for my own part , I cannot avoid being pleased at the happiness of those poor creatures , who in some measure con- tribute to mine . The Athenians , the politest and best- natured ...
Pagina 38
... liberty with their tongues than one may do now without being chal- lenged . Sir Mark . - Perhaps the Romans were of opinion , that ill language and brutal manners reflected only on those who were guilty of them ; and that a man's repu ...
... liberty with their tongues than one may do now without being chal- lenged . Sir Mark . - Perhaps the Romans were of opinion , that ill language and brutal manners reflected only on those who were guilty of them ; and that a man's repu ...
Pagina 40
... liberty , for there can be no greater liberty than a good govern- ment : the truth is , the easiness of the government has made some so wanton as to kick against it ; our own historians write , that most of our kings have been un ...
... liberty , for there can be no greater liberty than a good govern- ment : the truth is , the easiness of the government has made some so wanton as to kick against it ; our own historians write , that most of our kings have been un ...
Pagina 47
... liberty ; it circumscribes and defends it ; but to imagine liberty without a law , is to imagine every man with his sword in his hand to destroy him who is weaker than him- self ; and that would be no pleasant prospect to those who cry ...
... liberty ; it circumscribes and defends it ; but to imagine liberty without a law , is to imagine every man with his sword in his hand to destroy him who is weaker than him- self ; and that would be no pleasant prospect to those who cry ...
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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?