Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Band 2C. Tilt, 1840 |
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... delight of the common people , cannot fail to please all such readers as are not unqualified for the entertainment by their affec- tation or ignorance ; and the reason is plain , because the same paintings of nature , which recommend it ...
... delight of the common people , cannot fail to please all such readers as are not unqualified for the entertainment by their affec- tation or ignorance ; and the reason is plain , because the same paintings of nature , which recommend it ...
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... delight , and to complain Of weariness , would show as poorly in him As if a general should grieve for a wound Received upon his forehead , or his breast , After a glorious victory . CIII . Massinger . We should feel sorrow , but not ...
... delight , and to complain Of weariness , would show as poorly in him As if a general should grieve for a wound Received upon his forehead , or his breast , After a glorious victory . CIII . Massinger . We should feel sorrow , but not ...
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... delightful prejudice ; Carneades , a solitary king- dom ; Domitian said , that nothing was more grateful ; Aristotle affirmed , that beauty was better than all the let- ters of recommendation in the world : Homer , that ' twas a ...
... delightful prejudice ; Carneades , a solitary king- dom ; Domitian said , that nothing was more grateful ; Aristotle affirmed , that beauty was better than all the let- ters of recommendation in the world : Homer , that ' twas a ...
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... delightful , ' tis certain that in the literate warring world , the springing of mines , the blowing up of towers , bastions , and ramparts of philosophy , with systems , hypotheses , opinions , and doctrines , into the air , is a ...
... delightful , ' tis certain that in the literate warring world , the springing of mines , the blowing up of towers , bastions , and ramparts of philosophy , with systems , hypotheses , opinions , and doctrines , into the air , is a ...
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... delights in the most plain and simple diet . Every animal , but man , keeps to one dish . Herbs are the food of this species , fish of that , and flesh of a third . Man falls upon every thing that comes in his way ; not the smallest ...
... delights in the most plain and simple diet . Every animal , but man , keeps to one dish . Herbs are the food of this species , fish of that , and flesh of a third . Man falls upon every thing that comes in his way ; not the smallest ...
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Addison admire Bacon beauty Ben Jonson better body Butler common Confucius Congreve conversation Cynthia's Revels death delight doth drink Dryden excellent eyes fair fame fear fellow folly fool fortune friends genius give Godfrey Kneller gold Goldsmith gout grace happiness hath hear heart heaven hobby-horse honour Hudibras human humour idle Jonson keep kind king labour laugh learning live look looking-glass Lord Bacon Lord Bolingbroke lover man's mankind marriage Massinger men's mind mirth nature never o'er observed Ovid pains passions person play pleased pleasure Plutarch poet poison'd poor Pope praise pride reason rich seldom sense Shakspeare Shenstone sleep sometimes soul speak sweet taste tell temper thee thing thou art thought tion tongue true truth turn vex'd virtue wealth whole wisdom wise woman words write youth