Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volum 2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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Pàgina 2
... glass was out long before . He calls rebellion and treason laying out of himself for the public ; but being found to ... look only on those general habits which are every where and always the same : he ad- dresses his works to the people ...
... glass was out long before . He calls rebellion and treason laying out of himself for the public ; but being found to ... look only on those general habits which are every where and always the same : he ad- dresses his works to the people ...
Pàgina 42
... glass , I should not at all take it ill ; some are wont to have a looking - glass held to them while they wash , tho ' to little purpose ; but to be- hold a man's self so unnaturally disguised and disordered , will conduce not a little ...
... glass , I should not at all take it ill ; some are wont to have a looking - glass held to them while they wash , tho ' to little purpose ; but to be- hold a man's self so unnaturally disguised and disordered , will conduce not a little ...
Pàgina 98
... glass ; to feel and find them less ; To scrape the bald skull which was want to hold Our lovely locks with curling sticks controll'd ; To look in glass , and spy Sir Wrinkle's chair Set fast on fronts which erst were sleek and fair . On ...
... glass ; to feel and find them less ; To scrape the bald skull which was want to hold Our lovely locks with curling sticks controll'd ; To look in glass , and spy Sir Wrinkle's chair Set fast on fronts which erst were sleek and fair . On ...
Pàgina 207
... looking - glass , if it is a true one , faithfully repre- sents the face of him that looks in it , so a wife ought to fashion herself to the affection of her husband , not to be cheerful when he is sad , nor sad when he is cheerful ...
... looking - glass , if it is a true one , faithfully repre- sents the face of him that looks in it , so a wife ought to fashion herself to the affection of her husband , not to be cheerful when he is sad , nor sad when he is cheerful ...
Pàgina 229
... looking - glass mortifies , yet after commendation can be flatter'd by it , and discover beauties in it ; for that ... look and say ; vain , empty things if we are silent or unseen , and want a being . Mirabel . Yet , to those two vain ...
... looking - glass mortifies , yet after commendation can be flatter'd by it , and discover beauties in it ; for that ... look and say ; vain , empty things if we are silent or unseen , and want a being . Mirabel . Yet , to those two vain ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 183 - 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...
Pàgina 277 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Pàgina 223 - 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.
Pàgina 199 - 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.
Pàgina 238 - 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.
Pàgina 258 - 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.
Pàgina 223 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Pàgina 181 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Pàgina 178 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Pàgina 93 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...