Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1856 |
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Pagina 3
... doth fail , As lowest earth doth yield to heav'n above . Divine is love , and scorneth worldly pelf , And can be bought with nothing but with self . XI . Sir W. Raleigh . Books may be helps to learning and knowledge , and make it more ...
... doth fail , As lowest earth doth yield to heav'n above . Divine is love , and scorneth worldly pelf , And can be bought with nothing but with self . XI . Sir W. Raleigh . Books may be helps to learning and knowledge , and make it more ...
Pagina 5
... doth colours . And as the sun reflecting his warm beams Against the earth , begets all fruits and flowers , So love , fair shining in the inward man , Brings forth in him the honorable fruits Of valour , wit , virtue , and haughty ...
... doth colours . And as the sun reflecting his warm beams Against the earth , begets all fruits and flowers , So love , fair shining in the inward man , Brings forth in him the honorable fruits Of valour , wit , virtue , and haughty ...
Pagina 13
... doth the old tree ; or as the worm that ingendereth in the kernel of the nut . - Sir W. Raleigh . LIII . Great spirits bear misfortunes hardly : Good offices claim gratitude ; and pride , Where power is wanting , will usurp a little ...
... doth the old tree ; or as the worm that ingendereth in the kernel of the nut . - Sir W. Raleigh . LIII . Great spirits bear misfortunes hardly : Good offices claim gratitude ; and pride , Where power is wanting , will usurp a little ...
Pagina 21
... Doth into ice expire ; Flames turn to frost ; and ere we can Know how our cheek turns pale and wan , Or how a silver snow Springs there where jet did grow , Our fading spring is in dull winter lost . LXXIX . Mayne . It is a very poor ...
... Doth into ice expire ; Flames turn to frost ; and ere we can Know how our cheek turns pale and wan , Or how a silver snow Springs there where jet did grow , Our fading spring is in dull winter lost . LXXIX . Mayne . It is a very poor ...
Pagina 34
... doth commit , doth not commit sin , but he himself is wholly sin . - St. Augustine . CXXXVIII . The passion of love is no more to be understood by some tempers , than a problem in a science by an igno- rant man . - Tatler . CXXXIX ...
... doth commit , doth not commit sin , but he himself is wholly sin . - St. Augustine . CXXXVIII . The passion of love is no more to be understood by some tempers , than a problem in a science by an igno- rant man . - Tatler . CXXXIX ...
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Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson better Brown Burke charms Charron Churchill Clarendon court creature death Defence of Poesy delight divine doth Dryden ears earth Elizium esteem ev'ry evil Evremond eyes fair fall fame fancy fear flowers folly fools fortune friends give Goldsmith grace grow happy hate hath heart heaven honour humour king knowledge labour laugh learning liberty light live look Lord Bacon man's men's Milton mind nature never o'er Overbury passion pleasure poor praise pride racter Raleigh reason rich Roscommon Samson Agonistes Saville Sejanus sense Shakspeare shame shew shine Sidney Sir W soul Spenser spirit spleen strong madness sweet taste Tatler Temple thee things thou art thought thro thyself Tom Brown tongue true truth unto vice virtue whilst wind wisdom wise woman words wretched Young
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Pagina 266 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Pagina 232 - But know that in the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as Chief; among these Fancy next Her office holds ; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes, Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell, when nature rests.
Pagina 125 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Pagina 337 - Now the bright morning star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.
Pagina 120 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Pagina 152 - But there is no such man ; for, brother, men Can counsel, and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel ; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Charm ache with air, and agony with words.
Pagina 333 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text...
Pagina 263 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Pagina 103 - Nay, do not think I flatter ; For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Pagina 330 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peer?