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... false refinements of twenty years past , than it has been improved in the foregoing hundred . - Swift . III . The southern wits are like cucumbers , which are commonly all good in their kind ; but at best are an in- sipid fruit ; while ...
... false refinements of twenty years past , than it has been improved in the foregoing hundred . - Swift . III . The southern wits are like cucumbers , which are commonly all good in their kind ; but at best are an in- sipid fruit ; while ...
Pagina 2
... false wit chiefly consists in the re- semblance and congruity sometimes of single letters , as in anagrams , chronograms , lipograms , and acrostics : sometimes of words , as in puns and quibbles ; and some- times of whole sentences or ...
... false wit chiefly consists in the re- semblance and congruity sometimes of single letters , as in anagrams , chronograms , lipograms , and acrostics : sometimes of words , as in puns and quibbles ; and some- times of whole sentences or ...
Pagina 47
... false wit which has been so re- commended by the practice of all ages , as that which consists in a jingle of words , and is comprehended un- der the general name of punning . It is indeed impossi- ble to kill a weed , which the soil ...
... false wit which has been so re- commended by the practice of all ages , as that which consists in a jingle of words , and is comprehended un- der the general name of punning . It is indeed impossi- ble to kill a weed , which the soil ...
Pagina 55
... false medium ; for if a groom serve a gentle- man in his chamber , that gentleman a lord , and that lord a prince ; the groom , the gentleman , and the lord , are as much servants one as the other ; the circumstan- tial difference of ...
... false medium ; for if a groom serve a gentle- man in his chamber , that gentleman a lord , and that lord a prince ; the groom , the gentleman , and the lord , are as much servants one as the other ; the circumstan- tial difference of ...
Pagina 74
... false glosses have been put upon it by men of bad heads or bad hearts -it is at the bottom a complication of cowardice , and wickedness , and weakness ; -is one of the fatalest mis- takes desperation can hurry a man into . - Sterne ...
... false glosses have been put upon it by men of bad heads or bad hearts -it is at the bottom a complication of cowardice , and wickedness , and weakness ; -is one of the fatalest mis- takes desperation can hurry a man into . - Sterne ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 56 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
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 95 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
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 74 - 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 175 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise : it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Pagina 120 - 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.
Pagina 64 - 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 179 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts...
Pagina 181 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.