Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, 2권Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... sea , " Hitherto shalt thou go , and no further . " - Cowley . CXV . The jealous is possessed by a " fine mad devil , " and a dull spirit at once . - Lavater . CXVI . A table without music is little better than LACONICS . 86 29.
... sea , " Hitherto shalt thou go , and no further . " - Cowley . CXV . The jealous is possessed by a " fine mad devil , " and a dull spirit at once . - Lavater . CXVI . A table without music is little better than LACONICS . 86 29.
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... Thou'rt such a touchy , testy , pleasant fellow ; Hast so much wit , and mirth , and spleen about thee , There is no living with thee , nor without thee . Spectator . CXXXVI . To say a person writes a good style , is originally as ...
... Thou'rt such a touchy , testy , pleasant fellow ; Hast so much wit , and mirth , and spleen about thee , There is no living with thee , nor without thee . Spectator . CXXXVI . To say a person writes a good style , is originally as ...
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... thou hast wherewith to spend ; But if store of crowns be scant , No man will supply thy want , If that one be prodigal , Bountiful they will him call ; And with such like flattering ; 56 Pity but he were a king . " CCLIX . Shakspeare ...
... thou hast wherewith to spend ; But if store of crowns be scant , No man will supply thy want , If that one be prodigal , Bountiful they will him call ; And with such like flattering ; 56 Pity but he were a king . " CCLIX . Shakspeare ...
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... thou art My brother : I'll deliver thee a secret : I was at St. Sebastian's , last Sunday , At vespers . Francisco . It is a secret that you went to church ? You need not blush to tell your ghostly father . Fernando . I prithee leave ...
... thou art My brother : I'll deliver thee a secret : I was at St. Sebastian's , last Sunday , At vespers . Francisco . It is a secret that you went to church ? You need not blush to tell your ghostly father . Fernando . I prithee leave ...
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... Thou wert , ere Nature's self began to be ; ' Twas one vast nothing all , and all slept fast in thee . * * * * The tongue mov'd gently first , and speech was low , Till wrangling science taught it noise and show , And wicked wit arose ...
... Thou wert , ere Nature's self began to be ; ' Twas one vast nothing all , and all slept fast in thee . * * * * The tongue mov'd gently first , and speech was low , Till wrangling science taught it noise and show , And wicked wit arose ...
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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...