Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volum 2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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Pàgina 14
... receive twenty civilities . - Steele . LV . Your Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity , in- sert into ... received , are pocketed , not read . A suitor's swelling tears by the glowing beams Of choleric authority are dried up ...
... receive twenty civilities . - Steele . LV . Your Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity , in- sert into ... received , are pocketed , not read . A suitor's swelling tears by the glowing beams Of choleric authority are dried up ...
Pàgina 27
... Received upon his forehead , or his breast , After a glorious victory . CIII . Massinger . We should feel sorrow , but not sink under its oppres- sion ; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror , which reflects every object ...
... Received upon his forehead , or his breast , After a glorious victory . CIII . Massinger . We should feel sorrow , but not sink under its oppres- sion ; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror , which reflects every object ...
Pàgina 28
... their own natural meanness , by laying offences in the way of such as make it their endeavour to excel upon the received maxims and honest arts of life.- Guardian . CX . Mathematics is a ballast for the soul , 28 LACONICS .
... their own natural meanness , by laying offences in the way of such as make it their endeavour to excel upon the received maxims and honest arts of life.- Guardian . CX . Mathematics is a ballast for the soul , 28 LACONICS .
Pàgina 35
... received guest , and the Irishman like a stranger , who knows he is not welcome . There is seldom any thing entertaining either in the impudence of a South or North Briton ; but that of an Irishman is always comic . A true and genu- ine ...
... received guest , and the Irishman like a stranger , who knows he is not welcome . There is seldom any thing entertaining either in the impudence of a South or North Briton ; but that of an Irishman is always comic . A true and genu- ine ...
Pàgina 37
... receive , being masters to the children , and slaves to their parents . Fourthly , being grown rich , they grow negligent , and scorn to touch the school but by the proxie of an usher . - Fuller . CXLIX . It is a secret known but to few ...
... receive , being masters to the children , and slaves to their parents . Fourthly , being grown rich , they grow negligent , and scorn to touch the school but by the proxie of an usher . - Fuller . CXLIX . It is a secret known but to few ...
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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...