Laconics, Or The Best Words of the Best AuthorsH.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1856 |
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Pagina 5
... less genteel for a fine coat , if in wearing it he shows a regard for it , and is not as easy in it as if it were a plain one . - Chesterfield . XXIV . A little wit is equally capable of exposing a beauty and of aggravating a fault ...
... less genteel for a fine coat , if in wearing it he shows a regard for it , and is not as easy in it as if it were a plain one . - Chesterfield . XXIV . A little wit is equally capable of exposing a beauty and of aggravating a fault ...
Pagina 9
... less purchase , would be thought but an in- different bargain . - Swift . XLV . Nothing is more evident than that divers persons , no other way remarkable , have each a strong disposition to the formation of some particular trope or ...
... less purchase , would be thought but an in- different bargain . - Swift . XLV . Nothing is more evident than that divers persons , no other way remarkable , have each a strong disposition to the formation of some particular trope or ...
Pagina 29
... less degree to his friends : he can hardly wear it so in- offensively , but it is apt to incommode one or other of the company ! it is more properly a loaded pistol , which accident alone may fire and kill one . — Shenstone . CXXXVI ...
... less degree to his friends : he can hardly wear it so in- offensively , but it is apt to incommode one or other of the company ! it is more properly a loaded pistol , which accident alone may fire and kill one . — Shenstone . CXXXVI ...
Pagina 39
... less than an ipse dixit , and you must pin your faith on their sleeve . And though Diogenes lived in a tub , there might be , for aught I know , as much pride under his rags , as in the fine - spun garments of the divine Plato . - Swift ...
... less than an ipse dixit , and you must pin your faith on their sleeve . And though Diogenes lived in a tub , there might be , for aught I know , as much pride under his rags , as in the fine - spun garments of the divine Plato . - Swift ...
Pagina 41
... less a man is endued with any virtue , the more need he has to have it plentifully bestowed , especially those good qualities , of which the world believes he has none at all ; for who will thank a man for giving him that which he has ...
... less a man is endued with any virtue , the more need he has to have it plentifully bestowed , especially those good qualities , of which the world believes he has none at all ; for who will thank a man for giving him that which he has ...
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Æsop Apicius bagnio beauty Ben Jonson better body Bruyere Butler Chesterfield Churchill Codrus common conversation death delight dicebox doth dress enemy Epictetus Euripides evil eyes false fame fancy fear folly fools fortune friends genius gentleman give greatest happiness hath heart honest honour Hudibras human humour ignorance inns of court judgment keep kind knave laugh learning less live look Lord Lord Bacon man's mankind manner marriage Massinger matter merit mind Montaigne nature neral never numbers observed opinion pain pass passion pedants person philosopher pleasure Plutarch poet poor praise pride proud racter reason rich ridiculous Roman triumph satire seldom sense Shaftesbury Shakspeare Shenstone soul speak stand sure Swift tell thing thou thought tion true truth turn Twill vanity vice virtue whilst whole wise words write young
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Pagina 14 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Pagina 80 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Pagina 24 - Tam was glorious, o'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! " But pleasures are like poppies spread : you seize the flower, its bloom is shed; or like the snow falls in the river, a moment white — then melts for ever; or like the Borealis' race, that flit ere you can point their place; or like the rainbow's lovely form evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; the hour approaches Tam maun ride: that hour, o...
Pagina 350 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day ? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date...
Pagina 350 - And summer's lease hath all too short a date ; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd ; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd. But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest ; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest.
Pagina 67 - I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there ; if I take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand hold me,
Pagina 102 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Pagina 47 - In the youth of a state, arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.
Pagina 34 - A word to the wise is enough, and many words wont fill a bushel, as Poor Richard says." They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows; "Friends," says he, and neighbours, "the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride,...
Pagina 127 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit, are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, -when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day : demands it before he can receive it in a lump.