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In all the world there is no vice Less prone t'excess than avarice ; It neither cares for food nor clothing : Nature's content with little , that with nothing : Butler . LXXI . Dissipation is absolutely a labour when the round of Vanity ...
In all the world there is no vice Less prone t'excess than avarice ; It neither cares for food nor clothing : Nature's content with little , that with nothing : Butler . LXXI . Dissipation is absolutely a labour when the round of Vanity ...
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Great abi . lities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones . Life has been compared to a race , but the allusion still improves , by observing , that the most swift are ever the least manageable .
Great abi . lities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones . Life has been compared to a race , but the allusion still improves , by observing , that the most swift are ever the least manageable .
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Man , with raging drink inflam'd , Is far more savage and untam'd ; Supplies his loss of wit and sense With barb'rousness and insolence ; Believes himself , the less he's able , The more heroic , and formidable ; Lays by his reason in ...
Man , with raging drink inflam'd , Is far more savage and untam'd ; Supplies his loss of wit and sense With barb'rousness and insolence ; Believes himself , the less he's able , The more heroic , and formidable ; Lays by his reason in ...
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... the less he affects the air of a saint ; the affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety .--- Lavater . CXLII . What fool would trouble fortune more , When she has been too kind before ? Or tempt her to take back again ...
... the less he affects the air of a saint ; the affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety .--- Lavater . CXLII . What fool would trouble fortune more , When she has been too kind before ? Or tempt her to take back again ...
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For what less influence can produce So great a monster as a chouse , Or any two - legg'd thing possess With such a brutish sottishness ? Unless those tutelary stars Intrusted by astrologers To have the charge of man , combin'd To use ...
For what less influence can produce So great a monster as a chouse , Or any two - legg'd thing possess With such a brutish sottishness ? Unless those tutelary stars Intrusted by astrologers To have the charge of man , combin'd To use ...
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actions affection appear authors bear beauty become better body cause comes common conversation death desire doth excellent eyes face fair fall fear follow fool force fortune friends give gold grace greater grow hand happiness hath head hear heart heaven honour hope hour human Jonson keep kind king learning least leave less light live look lose man's manner matter means mind nature never observed once pains pass passions person play pleased pleasure poet poor present pride reason receive rest rich rules sense serve Shakspeare short sometimes soul speak stand sure tell thee thing thou thought tion true truth turn virtue whole wisdom wise wish write young
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Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 97 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
Seite 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.
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors Band 2 von Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, John Timbs |
| Autor/in | John Timbs |
| Herausgeber | John Timbs |
| Ausgabe | 3 |
| Verlag | Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 28. Sept. 2006 |
| Länge | 360 Seiten |
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