Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, Volumul 21829 |
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Pagina 78
... thou reachest the evening hour for rest . Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul , and never forget to have a penny , when all ' thy expenses are enumerated and paid : then shalt thou reach the point of happiness , and independence ...
... thou reachest the evening hour for rest . Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul , and never forget to have a penny , when all ' thy expenses are enumerated and paid : then shalt thou reach the point of happiness , and independence ...
Pagina 85
... to be the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at . - Swift . CCCXLI . O gate , how cam'st thou here ? Gate . I was brought from Chelsea last year VOL . II . H Batter'd with wind and weather . Inigo Jones put me LACONICS . 85.
... to be the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at . - Swift . CCCXLI . O gate , how cam'st thou here ? Gate . I was brought from Chelsea last year VOL . II . H Batter'd with wind and weather . Inigo Jones put me LACONICS . 85.
Pagina 91
... thou know'st a lie That bears this sound , is welcomer to me , Than any truth that says he loves me not . The Restoration - Buckingham . CCCLXVII . A man who owes a little , can clear it off in a very little time , and , if he is a ...
... thou know'st a lie That bears this sound , is welcomer to me , Than any truth that says he loves me not . The Restoration - Buckingham . CCCLXVII . A man who owes a little , can clear it off in a very little time , and , if he is a ...
Pagina 94
... Thou nursest all , and murderest all that are . CCCLXXX . Shakspeare . People of quality are fine things , indeed , if they had but a little more money ; but for want of that , they are ( often ) forced to do things they are ashamed of ...
... Thou nursest all , and murderest all that are . CCCLXXX . Shakspeare . People of quality are fine things , indeed , if they had but a little more money ; but for want of that , they are ( often ) forced to do things they are ashamed of ...
Pagina 97
... thou do nothing for a nobler end , Nothing to make philosophy thy friend ? To stop thy foolish views , thy long desires , And ease thy heart of all that it admires ? Here wisdom calls , " Seek virtue first , be bold ! " As gold to ...
... thou do nothing for a nobler end , Nothing to make philosophy thy friend ? To stop thy foolish views , thy long desires , And ease thy heart of all that it admires ? Here wisdom calls , " Seek virtue first , be bold ! " As gold to ...
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Astrology Bacon beauty Ben Jonson better body Butler common Confucius Congreve delight doth drink endeavour eyes fair fame fear fellow folly fool fortune friends gamester genius give Godfrey Kneller gold gout grace happiness hath hear heart heaven hobby-horse honour Hudibras humour idle Jonson keep kind king labour laugh learning live look looking-glass Lord Bacon Lord Bolingbroke lover man's mankind marriage Massinger men's mind Mirabel mirth nature nerally never o'er observed once Ovid pains painting passions person play pleased pleasure Plutarch poet poison'd poor Pope praise pride reason rich scarce seldom sense Shakspeare Shenstone sleep sometimes soul speak sure sweet taste tell temper thee thing thou art thought tion tongue true truth turn vex'd virtue wealth whole wisdom wise woman words write youth
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Pagina 191 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Pagina 257 - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps death his court ; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp...
Pagina 233 - Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice; Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Pagina 207 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Pagina 257 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Pagina 246 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Pagina 264 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Pagina 242 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Pagina 99 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
Pagina 121 - ... our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.