Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs].T. Boys, 1826 - 360 páginas |
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... Massinger . VIII . Till a man is capable of conversing with ease among the natives of any country , he can never be able to form a just and adequate idea of their policy and manners . He who sits at a play , without understanding the ...
... Massinger . VIII . Till a man is capable of conversing with ease among the natives of any country , he can never be able to form a just and adequate idea of their policy and manners . He who sits at a play , without understanding the ...
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... Massinger . Reformation is a work of time . A national taste , how- ever wrong it may be , cannot be totally changed at once ; we must yield a little to the prepossession which has taken hold on the mind , and we may then bring people ...
... Massinger . Reformation is a work of time . A national taste , how- ever wrong it may be , cannot be totally changed at once ; we must yield a little to the prepossession which has taken hold on the mind , and we may then bring people ...
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... Massinger . Friendship is the only thing in the world , concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed . - Cicero . LVIII . The historian may make himself wise , by living as many ages as have past since the beginning of the ...
... Massinger . Friendship is the only thing in the world , concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed . - Cicero . LVIII . The historian may make himself wise , by living as many ages as have past since the beginning of the ...
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... , ' TIS NOT IN US TO HELP IT . I have said , my lord : and now , as you find cause , Or censure us , or free us with applause . The Roman Actor . - Massinger . LXXXIV . A good inclination is but the first rude 22 LACONICS .
... , ' TIS NOT IN US TO HELP IT . I have said , my lord : and now , as you find cause , Or censure us , or free us with applause . The Roman Actor . - Massinger . LXXXIV . A good inclination is but the first rude 22 LACONICS .
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... Massinger , We should feel sorrow , but not sink under its oppres- sion ; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror , which reflects every object without being sullied by any . -Confucius . CIV . There are but three ways for a ...
... Massinger , We should feel sorrow , but not sink under its oppres- sion ; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror , which reflects every object without being sullied by any . -Confucius . CIV . There are but three ways for a ...
Términos y frases comunes
Addison Bacon beauty Ben Jonson better Bruyere Butler common Confucius Congreve conversation Cynthia's Revels death delight doth drink Dryden excellent eyes fair fame fear fellow folly fool fortune friends genius give Godfrey Kneller gold Goldsmith gout grace happiness hath hear heart heaven honour Hudibras human humour idle Jonson keep kind king labour laugh learning live look Lord Bacon Lord Bolingbroke lover man's mankind marriage Massinger men's mind mirth nature never o'er observed Ovid pains painting passions person play pleased pleasure Plutarch poet poison'd poor Pope praise pride reason rich seldom sense Shakspeare Shenstone sleep sometimes soul speak sweet taste Tatler tell temper thee thing thou art thought Timon of Athens tion tongue true truth turn vex'd virtue wealth whole wisdom wise woman words write youth