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 2
... reason hath so much over - mastered 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 ...
... reason hath so much over - mastered 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 ...
Pagina 10
... not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation , envy then commends us , and extols us , beyond reason , to those upon whom we depend , till they grow jealous , and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down.- Cla 10 LACONIC 3 .
... not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation , envy then commends us , and extols us , beyond reason , to those upon whom we depend , till they grow jealous , and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down.- Cla 10 LACONIC 3 .
Pagina 13
... reason is the certain measure of truth ; his own knowledge , of what is possible in nature ; though his mind and his thoughts change every seven years , as well as his G strength and his features nay , though his opinions change ...
... reason is the certain measure of truth ; his own knowledge , of what is possible in nature ; though his mind and his thoughts change every seven years , as well as his G strength and his features nay , though his opinions change ...
Pagina 22
... kind of resource.- Burke . - LXXXIV . Reason ! how many eyes hast thou to see evils , and how dim , nay , blind , thou art in preventing them . → Sir P. Sidney . To die is so small a matter to the English 22 LACONICS .
... kind of resource.- Burke . - LXXXIV . Reason ! how many eyes hast thou to see evils , and how dim , nay , blind , thou art in preventing them . → Sir P. Sidney . To die is so small a matter to the English 22 LACONICS .
Pagina 30
... reason , claim the privilege to forsake her ; and , at a distance from her , to seek repose that may balance the advantages she has denied them . What injury do we do her to pay her in the same coin , and return contempt for contempt ...
... reason , claim the privilege to forsake her ; and , at a distance from her , to seek repose that may balance the advantages she has denied them . What injury do we do her to pay her in the same coin , and return contempt for contempt ...
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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?