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He is like a pike in a pond , that lives by rapine , and will sometimes venture on one of his own kind , and devour a knave as big as himself ; he will swallow a fool a great deal bigger than himself ; and if he can but get his head ...
He is like a pike in a pond , that lives by rapine , and will sometimes venture on one of his own kind , and devour a knave as big as himself ; he will swallow a fool a great deal bigger than himself ; and if he can but get his head ...
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For if he be apparently impotent in this latter kind , he is to be denied all title or character in the other . - Shaftesbury . XXXVI . A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with , because nobody envies ...
For if he be apparently impotent in this latter kind , he is to be denied all title or character in the other . - Shaftesbury . XXXVI . A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with , because nobody envies ...
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In order to look into any person's temper , I generally make my first observations upon his laugh , whether he is easily moved , and what are the passages which throw him into that agreeable kind of convulsion .
In order to look into any person's temper , I generally make my first observations upon his laugh , whether he is easily moved , and what are the passages which throw him into that agreeable kind of convulsion .
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It may be remarked in general under this head , that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a faint constrained kind of half laugh , as such persons are never without some diffidence about them : but that of fools is the most ...
It may be remarked in general under this head , that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a faint constrained kind of half laugh , as such persons are never without some diffidence about them : but that of fools is the most ...
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What a world of insipid productions in this kind have we been pestered with since the revolu . tion , to go no higher . - Šteele . XCIII . Fade , flow'rs ! fade , nature will have it so ' Tis what we must in our autumn do ! bound up .
What a world of insipid productions in this kind have we been pestered with since the revolu . tion , to go no higher . - Šteele . XCIII . Fade , flow'rs ! fade , nature will have it so ' Tis what we must in our autumn do ! bound up .
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
actions affection appear authors bear beauty become better body Butler cause comes common consider conversation death desire doth excellent eyes face fair fall fear follow fool fortune friends give grace greater grow hand happiness hath head hear heart heaven hold honour hope hour human Jonson keep kind king learning least leave less light live look 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 Shakspeare short sometimes soul speak stand sure tell thee thing thou thought tion true truth turn virtue whole wise wish woman write young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 173 - 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 267 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Seite 213 - 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 189 - 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 228 - 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 248 - 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 213 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Seite 171 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Seite 168 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Seite 83 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Band 2 Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, John Timbs |
| Autor/in | John Timbs |
| Verlag | Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
| Original von | New York Public Library |
| Digitalisiert | 5. Jan. 2007 |
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