Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...H.G. Bohn, 1856 |
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Σελίδα 14
... death itself . If you would not rather be commended than be praiseworthy , contemn little merits ; and allow no man to be so free with you , as to praise you to your face . Your vanity by this means will want its food . At the same time ...
... death itself . If you would not rather be commended than be praiseworthy , contemn little merits ; and allow no man to be so free with you , as to praise you to your face . Your vanity by this means will want its food . At the same time ...
Σελίδα 18
... death he is never troubled , and if he get in but his harvest before , let it come when it will , he cares not.- Bishop Earle . LXV . 6 5 ′′ ̃ He who in questions of right , virtue , or duty , sets him- self above all ridicule , is ...
... death he is never troubled , and if he get in but his harvest before , let it come when it will , he cares not.- Bishop Earle . LXV . 6 5 ′′ ̃ He who in questions of right , virtue , or duty , sets him- self above all ridicule , is ...
Σελίδα 29
... tyrannizing over one another , that no individual should be of such importance as to cause by his retire- ment or death any chasm in the world - Johnson . CXII . // 2 There is a sort of masonry D 3 LACONICS . 29 CVIII. 188 ...
... tyrannizing over one another , that no individual should be of such importance as to cause by his retire- ment or death any chasm in the world - Johnson . CXII . // 2 There is a sort of masonry D 3 LACONICS . 29 CVIII. 188 ...
Σελίδα 36
... death - bed like the meanest slave . Who reasons wisely , is not therefore wise ; His pride in reas'ning , not in acting , lies . CXLI . / 4 / Pope . The more honesty a man has , the less he affects the air of a saint ; the affectation ...
... death - bed like the meanest slave . Who reasons wisely , is not therefore wise ; His pride in reas'ning , not in acting , lies . CXLI . / 4 / Pope . The more honesty a man has , the less he affects the air of a saint ; the affectation ...
Σελίδα 55
... but him- self , Lilburn would quarrel with John , and John with Lilburn ; " which part of his character gave occasion for the following lines at his death : - 221 Is John departed , and is Lilburn gone ? Tarewell LACONICS . 55.
... but him- self , Lilburn would quarrel with John , and John with Lilburn ; " which part of his character gave occasion for the following lines at his death : - 221 Is John departed , and is Lilburn gone ? Tarewell LACONICS . 55.
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Σελίδα 304 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Σελίδα 291 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do: Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Σελίδα 293 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends, thou aim'st at, be thy country's, 4 — — make use — 1 ie make interest. Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Σελίδα 257 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Σελίδα 224 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Σελίδα 232 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Σελίδα 192 - Thou art not thyself; For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains That issue out of dust : happy thou art not : For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get i And what thou hast, forget'st : thou art not certain ; For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, After the moon : if thou art rich, thou art poor ; For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee...
Σελίδα 172 - 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: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to...
Σελίδα 171 - When Love with unconfine'd wings Hovers within my Gates ; And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the Grates : When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The Birds, that wanton in the Air, Know no such Liberty.
Σελίδα 236 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots...