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... And prov'd the only means to save All earthly creatures from the wave , Has , for it , taught the sea and wind To lay a tribute on mankind , That by degrees has swallow'd more Than all it drown'd at once before . Butler . XIII .
... And prov'd the only means to save All earthly creatures from the wave , Has , for it , taught the sea and wind To lay a tribute on mankind , That by degrees has swallow'd more Than all it drown'd at once before . Butler . XIII .
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A national taste , however 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 to adopt what would offend them ...
A national taste , however 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 to adopt what would offend them ...
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So Nero once , with harp in hand , survey'd His flaming Rome , and as it burn'd he play'd . Waller.To a Lady playing on the Lute . XLI . Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy , but emulation ( or laudable ambition ) is actually ...
So Nero once , with harp in hand , survey'd His flaming Rome , and as it burn'd he play'd . Waller.To a Lady playing on the Lute . XLI . Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy , but emulation ( or laudable ambition ) is actually ...
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Dissipation is absolutely a labour when the round of Vanity Fair has been once made ; but fashion makes us think light of the toil , and we describe the circle as mechanically as a horse in a mill .-- Zimmerman .
Dissipation is absolutely a labour when the round of Vanity Fair has been once made ; but fashion makes us think light of the toil , and we describe the circle as mechanically as a horse in a mill .-- Zimmerman .
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... “ Hitherto shalt thou go , and no further . ” ” _Cowley . CXV . The jealous is possessed by a “ fine mad devil , ” and a dull spirit at once.Lavater . c ? CXVI . A table without music is little better than LACONICS . 29 CX. ...
... “ Hitherto shalt thou go , and no further . ” ” _Cowley . CXV . The jealous is possessed by a “ fine mad devil , ” and a dull spirit at once.Lavater . c ? CXVI . A table without music is little better than LACONICS . 29 CX. ...
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Page 189 - 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...
Page 253 - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps death his court ; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp...
Page 231 - Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice; Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Page 205 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 253 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 244 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 262 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 240 - 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.
Page 97 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
Page 119 - ... our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.
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| Title | Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors Volume 2 of Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, John Timbs |
| Author | John Timbs |
| Editor | John Timbs |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 28 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 360 pages |
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