Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... pain ; to cure diseases , and the mortal sting of the tarantula ; to give motions to the feet as well as the heart ; to compose disturbed thoughts ; to assist and heighten devotion itself . - Sir W. Temple . CLI . -Kings , by grasping ...
... pain ; to cure diseases , and the mortal sting of the tarantula ; to give motions to the feet as well as the heart ; to compose disturbed thoughts ; to assist and heighten devotion itself . - Sir W. Temple . CLI . -Kings , by grasping ...
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... painful and violent , they equal all conditions of life , make no difference between a prince and a beggar ; and a fit of the stone or the colic puts a king to the rack , and makes him as miserable as he can do the meanest ; the worst ...
... painful and violent , they equal all conditions of life , make no difference between a prince and a beggar ; and a fit of the stone or the colic puts a king to the rack , and makes him as miserable as he can do the meanest ; the worst ...
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... pains shall here in wildest fancies flow ; Their dress , their customs , their religion show . So shall the British fair their minds improve , And on the fan to distant climates rove . Here China's ladies shall their pride display , And ...
... pains shall here in wildest fancies flow ; Their dress , their customs , their religion show . So shall the British fair their minds improve , And on the fan to distant climates rove . Here China's ladies shall their pride display , And ...
Page 73
... pains in the world a man cannot take , than to hold his tongue : therefore if thou observest this rule in all assemblies , thou shalt seldom err : restrain thy choler , hearken much , and speak little ; for the tongue is the instrument ...
... pains in the world a man cannot take , than to hold his tongue : therefore if thou observest this rule in all assemblies , thou shalt seldom err : restrain thy choler , hearken much , and speak little ; for the tongue is the instrument ...
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... pain in his sickness and weak- ness ; and he who hath practised it all his life , will do it with more ease and less perplexity in the hour of his death : as he who hath diligently cast up every page of a large account , will better be ...
... pain in his sickness and weak- ness ; and he who hath practised it all his life , will do it with more ease and less perplexity in the hour of his death : as he who hath diligently cast up every page of a large account , will better be ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.