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Pagina 28
... pains are done , Has nothing he can call his own , But a mere livelihood alone . CIX . Butler . There are a set of dry , joyless , dull fellows , who want capacities and talents to make a figure amongst mankind upon benevolent and ...
... pains are done , Has nothing he can call his own , But a mere livelihood alone . CIX . Butler . There are a set of dry , joyless , dull fellows , who want capacities and talents to make a figure amongst mankind upon benevolent and ...
Pagina 30
... pain . So then he hath it , when he cannot use it , And leaves it to be master'd by his young , Who in their pride do presently abuse it : Their father was too weak , and they too strong , To hold their cursed blessed fortune long . The ...
... pain . So then he hath it , when he cannot use it , And leaves it to be master'd by his young , Who in their pride do presently abuse it : Their father was too weak , and they too strong , To hold their cursed blessed fortune long . The ...
Pagina 34
... pains in considering this prevailing quality , which we call impudence , and have taken notice that it exerts it- self in a different manner , according to the different soils wherein such subjects of these dominions as are masters of ...
... pains in considering this prevailing quality , which we call impudence , and have taken notice that it exerts it- self in a different manner , according to the different soils wherein such subjects of these dominions as are masters of ...
Pagina 39
... pains are real things , and all Our pleasures but fantastical ; Diseases of their own accord But cures come difficult and hard . Our noblest piles , and stateliest rooms , Are but LACONICS . 39 God, and my duty towards man. What care ...
... pains are real things , and all Our pleasures but fantastical ; Diseases of their own accord But cures come difficult and hard . Our noblest piles , and stateliest rooms , Are but LACONICS . 39 God, and my duty towards man. What care ...
Pagina 41
... pains , and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature , our nature would never corrupt us . - Clarendon . CLXV . One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged , the greater variety of thoughts and subjects ...
... pains , and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature , our nature would never corrupt us . - Clarendon . CLXV . One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged , the greater variety of thoughts and subjects ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 93 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...