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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... stand in the shock of a basilisk , than in the fury of a merciless pen.- Sir T. Brown , III . For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong , whose life is in the right : In faith and hope the world will disagree ...
... stand in the shock of a basilisk , than in the fury of a merciless pen.- Sir T. Brown , III . For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong , whose life is in the right : In faith and hope the world will disagree ...
Pagina 12
... their country pleasure . In loyalty they do abound , Nothing base in them is found ; But they calmly stand their ground In calm and stormy weather . Anon LI . How excellently composed is that mind , which 2 LACONICS .
... their country pleasure . In loyalty they do abound , Nothing base in them is found ; But they calmly stand their ground In calm and stormy weather . Anon LI . How excellently composed is that mind , which 2 LACONICS .
Pagina 36
... stand , and no endeavour to support . - Burke - to the Electors of Bristol . CXLVII . " Tis a mortification to a prince to see an old minister torn from him ; but self - preservation is the first law of nature ; and any man , in his ...
... stand , and no endeavour to support . - Burke - to the Electors of Bristol . CXLVII . " Tis a mortification to a prince to see an old minister torn from him ; but self - preservation is the first law of nature ; and any man , in his ...
Pagina 51
In Three Volumes. Nor trifling titles of vanity dazzleth us , Nor golden manacles stand for a paradise . Here wrong's name is unheard ; slander a monster is , Keep thy sprite from abuse , here no abuse doth haunt , What man grafts in a ...
In Three Volumes. Nor trifling titles of vanity dazzleth us , Nor golden manacles stand for a paradise . Here wrong's name is unheard ; slander a monster is , Keep thy sprite from abuse , here no abuse doth haunt , What man grafts in a ...
Pagina 56
... stand , to giue the necke . The Queene . The Queene is queint , and quicke conceit , Which makes hir walke which way she list , And rootes them vp , that lie in wait To worke her treason , ere she wist : Hir force is such against hir ...
... stand , to giue the necke . The Queene . The Queene is queint , and quicke conceit , Which makes hir walke which way she list , And rootes them vp , that lie in wait To worke her treason , ere she wist : Hir force is such against hir ...
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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?