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 52
... ears , gives a nobler superiority than power that every dunce may use or fraud that every knave may employ , to lead them by the nose . But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring , and not spout forth a ...
... ears , gives a nobler superiority than power that every dunce may use or fraud that every knave may employ , to lead them by the nose . But eloquence must flow like a stream that is fed by an abundant spring , and not spout forth a ...
Pagina 61
... ears , it must be gently led , or rather , it must lead , which was partly the cause that made the learned antient affirm , it was a divine , and no human skill , since all other knowledge lies ready for any that have strength of wit ...
... ears , it must be gently led , or rather , it must lead , which was partly the cause that made the learned antient affirm , it was a divine , and no human skill , since all other knowledge lies ready for any that have strength of wit ...
Pagina 96
... ears , And plant in tyrants mild humility . CCCXL . Shakspeare . The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquillity , until men are firmly convinced , that con- science , honour , and credit , are all in one interest ; and ...
... ears , And plant in tyrants mild humility . CCCXL . Shakspeare . The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquillity , until men are firmly convinced , that con- science , honour , and credit , are all in one interest ; and ...
Pagina 104
... eye twinkles to the light , But open'd wide , and goggling is her right Down from her collar to her bosom bare , Her bells hung pendant like a solitaire : High o'er her ear , light - waving to the 104 LACONICS . CCCLXIII. ...
... eye twinkles to the light , But open'd wide , and goggling is her right Down from her collar to her bosom bare , Her bells hung pendant like a solitaire : High o'er her ear , light - waving to the 104 LACONICS . CCCLXIII. ...
Pagina 105
In Three Volumes. High o'er her ear , light - waving to the gale , She wore the plumage of a peacock's tail , Which ... ears she pricks up to herself to list , And sputters all her meaning in a mist . Wise in conceit she seems , for all ...
In Three Volumes. High o'er her ear , light - waving to the gale , She wore the plumage of a peacock's tail , Which ... ears she pricks up to herself to list , And sputters all her meaning in a mist . Wise in conceit she seems , for all ...
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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?