Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumen3Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... persons cannot go much higher : and he that standeth at a stay when others rise , can hardly avoid motions of envy . - Lord Bacon . XVII . I have long thought , that the different abilities of men , which we call wisdom or prudence for ...
... persons cannot go much higher : and he that standeth at a stay when others rise , can hardly avoid motions of envy . - Lord Bacon . XVII . I have long thought , that the different abilities of men , which we call wisdom or prudence for ...
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... than the wisdom of those persons who set up for reformers of the age . ' Tis a part a man cannot act long , without offending his friends and rendering himself LACONICS . 17 It is manifest, that all government of action is ...
... than the wisdom of those persons who set up for reformers of the age . ' Tis a part a man cannot act long , without offending his friends and rendering himself LACONICS . 17 It is manifest, that all government of action is ...
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... person that confined him . - Burke . LXXXVII . In war , people judge , for the most part , by the suc- cess ... persons . - St . Evremond . LXXXVIII . A knight of the long robe is more honourable than a knight made in the field ; for ...
... person that confined him . - Burke . LXXXVII . In war , people judge , for the most part , by the suc- cess ... persons . - St . Evremond . LXXXVIII . A knight of the long robe is more honourable than a knight made in the field ; for ...
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... person may judge , who has seen the world , our English servants are the best treated , be- cause the generality of our English gentlemen are the politest under the sun.— -Goldsmith . CXXX . I courted fame but as a spur to brave And ...
... person may judge , who has seen the world , our English servants are the best treated , be- cause the generality of our English gentlemen are the politest under the sun.— -Goldsmith . CXXX . I courted fame but as a spur to brave And ...
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... persons who have vomited out of their souls all remnants of goodness , there rests a certain pride in evil ; and having else no shadow of glory left them , they glory to be constant in iniquity . - Sir P. Sidney . CXLIX . Time's minutes ...
... persons who have vomited out of their souls all remnants of goodness , there rests a certain pride in evil ; and having else no shadow of glory left them , they glory to be constant in iniquity . - Sir P. Sidney . CXLIX . Time's minutes ...
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Página 300 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Página 15 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Página 112 - But he 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...
Página 288 - MAY MORNING. 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. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Página 89 - While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe, And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt. Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such, a woman oweth to her husband...
Página 284 - 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...
Página 252 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Página 244 - Hail, wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else! By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Página 243 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew: fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Página 98 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.