Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, 2권Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... means to save All earthly creatures from the wave , Has , for it , taught the sea and wind To lay a tribute on ... mean not so critically , as to solve all doubts arising thence ; but that he may be able to give some to- lerable account ...
... means to save All earthly creatures from the wave , Has , for it , taught the sea and wind To lay a tribute on ... mean not so critically , as to solve all doubts arising thence ; but that he may be able to give some to- lerable account ...
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... means the law makes more knaves than it hangs ; and , like the inns of court , protects of- fenders against itself . He gets within the law and disarins it . His hardest labour is to wriggle himself into trust , which if he can but ...
... means the law makes more knaves than it hangs ; and , like the inns of court , protects of- fenders against itself . He gets within the law and disarins it . His hardest labour is to wriggle himself into trust , which if he can but ...
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... means , when the heavens are filled with clouds , when the earth swims in rain , and all nature wears a louring countenance , I withdraw myself from these un- comfortable scenes into the visionary worlds of art ; where I meet with ...
... means , when the heavens are filled with clouds , when the earth swims in rain , and all nature wears a louring countenance , I withdraw myself from these un- comfortable scenes into the visionary worlds of art ; where I meet with ...
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... means will want its food . At the same time your passion for esteem will be more fully gratified ; men will praise you in their actions : where you now re- ceive one compliment , you will then receive twenty civilities . - Steele . LV ...
... means will want its food . At the same time your passion for esteem will be more fully gratified ; men will praise you in their actions : where you now re- ceive one compliment , you will then receive twenty civilities . - Steele . LV ...
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... means history painting would be encouraged among us , and a ridiculous vanity to the improvement of one of the most instructive , as well as the most pleasing , of the imitative arts . Those who never contributed a single benefit to ...
... means history painting would be encouraged among us , and a ridiculous vanity to the improvement of one of the most instructive , as well as the most pleasing , of the imitative arts . Those who never contributed a single benefit to ...
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183 페이지 - 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...
277 페이지 - 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.
223 페이지 - 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.
199 페이지 - 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.
238 페이지 - 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.
258 페이지 - 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.
223 페이지 - 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...
181 페이지 - 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.
178 페이지 - 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.
93 페이지 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...