Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1856 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... fancy's spring , but sorrow's fall . Sir W. Raleigh - Answer to Marlowe's " Come Live , " & c . XXXI . Thinking nurseth thinking . - Sidney . XXXII . Let Solomon pronounce what he will , the drunkard will never be terrified with the ...
... fancy's spring , but sorrow's fall . Sir W. Raleigh - Answer to Marlowe's " Come Live , " & c . XXXI . Thinking nurseth thinking . - Sidney . XXXII . Let Solomon pronounce what he will , the drunkard will never be terrified with the ...
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... fancy's scum , and dregs of scatter'd thought ; Band of all evils ; cradle of causeless care ; Thou web of ill , whose end is never wrought ; Desire ! Desire ! I have too dearly bought , With price of mangled mind thy worthless ware ...
... fancy's scum , and dregs of scatter'd thought ; Band of all evils ; cradle of causeless care ; Thou web of ill , whose end is never wrought ; Desire ! Desire ! I have too dearly bought , With price of mangled mind thy worthless ware ...
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... fancy , which are required towards a polite conversation . Me- ditation has still worse effects in civil society ; where- fore let me advise you to take care , that you lose not by it with your friends what you think to gain with ...
... fancy , which are required towards a polite conversation . Me- ditation has still worse effects in civil society ; where- fore let me advise you to take care , that you lose not by it with your friends what you think to gain with ...
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... fancy , The sickly shade of an unsolid greatness ! The lying lure of pride that Europe cheats by ! CXXXIV . Hill . 1 Controuled depravity is not innocence ; and it is not the labour of delinquency in chains that will correct abuses ...
... fancy , The sickly shade of an unsolid greatness ! The lying lure of pride that Europe cheats by ! CXXXIV . Hill . 1 Controuled depravity is not innocence ; and it is not the labour of delinquency in chains that will correct abuses ...
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... broken sketches , and smaller flourishes of the pencil ; so I find some relief in striking out miscellaneous hints , and sudden starts of fancy , without any order or connection , after having spent myself 58 69 LACONICS .
... broken sketches , and smaller flourishes of the pencil ; so I find some relief in striking out miscellaneous hints , and sudden starts of fancy , without any order or connection , after having spent myself 58 69 LACONICS .
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Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson better Brown Burke charms Charron Churchill Clarendon court creature death Defence of Poesy delight divine doth Dryden ears earth Elizium esteem ev'ry evil Evremond eyes fair fall fame fancy fear flowers folly fools fortune friends give Goldsmith grace grow happy hate hath heart heaven honour humour king knowledge labour laugh learning liberty light live look Lord Bacon man's men's Milton mind nature never o'er Overbury passion pleasure poor praise pride racter Raleigh reason rich Roscommon Samson Agonistes Saville Sejanus sense Shakspeare shame shew shine Sidney Sir W soul Spenser spirit spleen strong madness sweet taste Tatler Temple thee things thou art thought thro thyself Tom Brown tongue true truth unto vice virtue whilst wind wisdom wise woman words wretched Young
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Page 266 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 232 - But know that in the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as Chief; among these Fancy next Her office holds ; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes, Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell, when nature rests.
Page 125 - ... 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...
Page 337 - 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.
Page 120 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 152 - But there is no such man ; for, brother, men Can counsel, and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel ; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Charm ache with air, and agony with words.
Page 333 - 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...
Page 263 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Page 103 - Nay, do not think I flatter ; For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Page 330 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peer?