Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. |
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Laconics, John Timbs. Laconics . Long trails of light descending down . - Dryden . I. THE English laws punish vice ; the Chinese laws do more , they reward virtue . - Goldsmith . II . Whenever you commend , add your reasons for doing so ...
Laconics, John Timbs. Laconics . Long trails of light descending down . - Dryden . I. THE English laws punish vice ; the Chinese laws do more , they reward virtue . - Goldsmith . II . Whenever you commend , add your reasons for doing so ...
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... Dryden . CXCVI . Similes , drawn from odd circumstances and effects strangely accidental , bear a near relation to false wit . The best instance of the kind is that celebrated line of Waller : " He grasp'd at love , and fill'd his hand ...
... Dryden . CXCVI . Similes , drawn from odd circumstances and effects strangely accidental , bear a near relation to false wit . The best instance of the kind is that celebrated line of Waller : " He grasp'd at love , and fill'd his hand ...
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... Dryden has expressed this very excellency in the character of Zimri : A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one , but all mankind's epitome . Stiff in opinion , always in the wrong , Was every thing by starts , and nothing long ...
... Dryden has expressed this very excellency in the character of Zimri : A man so various that he seem'd to be Not one , but all mankind's epitome . Stiff in opinion , always in the wrong , Was every thing by starts , and nothing long ...
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... Dryden , who was said not at all to answer in this respect the character of his genius . I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse ...
... Dryden , who was said not at all to answer in this respect the character of his genius . I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse ...
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... thinks better of a gilded fool , Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school . Dekker . London : Printed by A. Applegath , Stamford Street . DRYDEN MASSINGER SHAKSPEARE JONSON OR THE BEST WORDS OF THE 180 LACONICS . DCCXI. ...
... thinks better of a gilded fool , Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school . Dekker . London : Printed by A. Applegath , Stamford Street . DRYDEN MASSINGER SHAKSPEARE JONSON OR THE BEST WORDS OF THE 180 LACONICS . DCCXI. ...
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