Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...H.G. Bohn, 1856 |
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Σελίδα 8
... Human nature is not so much depraved as to hinder us from respecting goodness in others , though we our- selves want it . This is the reason why we are so much charmed with the pretty prattle of children , and even the expressions of ...
... Human nature is not so much depraved as to hinder us from respecting goodness in others , though we our- selves want it . This is the reason why we are so much charmed with the pretty prattle of children , and even the expressions of ...
Σελίδα 12
... human society but would have some little pretension for some degree in it.- Steele . XLIV . The good yeoman wears russet clothes , but makes golden payment , having time in his buttons , but silver in his pocket . If he chance to appear ...
... human society but would have some little pretension for some degree in it.- Steele . XLIV . The good yeoman wears russet clothes , but makes golden payment , having time in his buttons , but silver in his pocket . If he chance to appear ...
Σελίδα 21
... human nature resembles a table chequered with compartments of black and white : po- tentates and people have their rise and fall ; cities and families their trines and sextiles , their quartiles and op- positions . Burton , LXXX . 80 ...
... human nature resembles a table chequered with compartments of black and white : po- tentates and people have their rise and fall ; cities and families their trines and sextiles , their quartiles and op- positions . Burton , LXXX . 80 ...
Σελίδα 28
... human figure . Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face ; she has touched it with vermilion , planted in it a double row of ivory , made it the seat of smiles and blushes , lighted it up and en- livened it with the ...
... human figure . Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face ; she has touched it with vermilion , planted in it a double row of ivory , made it the seat of smiles and blushes , lighted it up and en- livened it with the ...
Σελίδα 32
... human happiness , that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery . — Burton . CXXVI / 26 She neglects her heart who studies her glass . - Lavater . CXXVII . / 27 The best born , and the first born , are oftimes the worst ...
... human happiness , that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery . — Burton . CXXVI / 26 She neglects her heart who studies her glass . - Lavater . CXXVII . / 27 The best born , and the first born , are oftimes the worst ...
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Addison authors Bacon beauty Ben Jonson better body Butler common Confucius Congreve conversation Cynthia's Revels death delight doth Dryden Epictetus eyes fair fame fear fellow folly fool fortune friends genius give Godfrey Kneller gold Goldsmith gout grace happiness hath heart heaven hobby-horse honour Hudibras humour idle Jonson keep kind king labour laugh learning live look looking-glass Lord Bacon Lord Bolingbroke lover man's mankind marriage Massinger men's mind mirth nature never o'er observed once Ovid pains passions person play pleased pleasure Plutarch poet poison'd poor Pope praise pride reason rich scarce seldom sense Shakspeare Shenstone shew sleep Socrates sometimes soul speak sweet taste tell temper thee thing thou art thought tion tongue true truth turn vex'd virtue wealth whole wisdom wise woman words write youth
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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...