Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volum 2C. Tilt, 1840 |
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Pàgina 61
... Socrates called beauty a short - lived tyranny ; Plato , a privilege of nature ; Theophrastus , a silent cheat ; Theo- critus , a delightful prejudice ; Carneades , a solitary king . dom ; Domitian said , that nothing was more grateful ...
... Socrates called beauty a short - lived tyranny ; Plato , a privilege of nature ; Theophrastus , a silent cheat ; Theo- critus , a delightful prejudice ; Carneades , a solitary king . dom ; Domitian said , that nothing was more grateful ...
Pàgina 111
... Socrates ever danced . - Bruyere . CCCCXXXIV . As in great and crowded fairs Monsters and puppet plays are wares Which in the less will not go off , Because they have not money enough . So men in prince's courts will pass , That will ...
... Socrates ever danced . - Bruyere . CCCCXXXIV . As in great and crowded fairs Monsters and puppet plays are wares Which in the less will not go off , Because they have not money enough . So men in prince's courts will pass , That will ...
Pàgina 127
... Socrates burlesqued upon the stage ; and no Englishman can read the Rehearsal without smiling at the medley of borrowed absurdities which it exhibits . - Percival . DIV . There is scarce a village in Europe , and not one univer- sity ...
... Socrates burlesqued upon the stage ; and no Englishman can read the Rehearsal without smiling at the medley of borrowed absurdities which it exhibits . - Percival . DIV . There is scarce a village in Europe , and not one univer- sity ...
Pàgina 205
... an undaunted mind . And Socrates , being asked , what true nobility was , answered , temperance of mind and body . - From the Italian . T DCCCVIII . Volumes of antiquity , like medals , may LACONICS . 205 DCCCIII. ...
... an undaunted mind . And Socrates , being asked , what true nobility was , answered , temperance of mind and body . - From the Italian . T DCCCVIII . Volumes of antiquity , like medals , may LACONICS . 205 DCCCIII. ...
Pàgina 217
... Socrates . DCCCLXVI . If a man get a fever , or a pain in the head with over drinking , we are subject to curse the wine , when we should rather impute it to ourselves for the excess . Erasmus . DCCCLXVII . It is not growing like a tree ...
... Socrates . DCCCLXVI . If a man get a fever , or a pain in the head with over drinking , we are subject to curse the wine , when we should rather impute it to ourselves for the excess . Erasmus . DCCCLXVII . It is not growing like a tree ...
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Addison Bacon beauty Ben Jonson better body Butler common Confucius Congreve conversation Cynthia's Revels death delight doth Dryden excellent eyes fair fame fear fellow folly fool fortune friends genius give Godfrey Kneller gold Goldsmith gout grace happiness hath hear heart heaven honour Hudibras human 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 mirth nature never o'er observed Ovid pains passions person play pleased pleasure Plutarch poet poison'd poor Pope praise pride reason rich seldom sense Shakspeare Shenstone sleep Socrates sometimes soul speak sweet taste Tatler tell temper thee thing thou art thought tion tongue true truth turn vex'd virtue wealth whole wisdom wise woman words write youth