Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Band 2C. Tilt, 1840 |
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... Jonson used to say , he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works . Sir Philip Sidney , in his discourse of poetry , speaks of it in the following words : " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas , that I ...
... Jonson used to say , he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works . Sir Philip Sidney , in his discourse of poetry , speaks of it in the following words : " I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas , that I ...
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... Jonson . Extempore discourses are full of much ordinary and loose stuff : nor do such speakers well know how to begin , or when to make an end . And besides other faults which those who speak suddenly are commonly guilty of , they are ...
... Jonson . Extempore discourses are full of much ordinary and loose stuff : nor do such speakers well know how to begin , or when to make an end . And besides other faults which those who speak suddenly are commonly guilty of , they are ...
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... Jonson . DCCXVI . A just and reasonable modesty does not only recom- mend eloquence , but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of . It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies ; like the shades in paintings ...
... Jonson . DCCXVI . A just and reasonable modesty does not only recom- mend eloquence , but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of . It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies ; like the shades in paintings ...
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... Jonson . He that will divide a minute into a thousand parts , and break but a part of the thousandth part of a minute in the affairs of love , it may be said of him , that Cupid hath clapp'd him o ' the shoulder , but I warrant him ...
... Jonson . He that will divide a minute into a thousand parts , and break but a part of the thousandth part of a minute in the affairs of love , it may be said of him , that Cupid hath clapp'd him o ' the shoulder , but I warrant him ...
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... Jonson . DCCCXXXVI . All false practices and affectations of knowledge are more odious to God , and deserve to be so to men , than any want or defect of knowledge can be . - Sprat . DCCCXXXVII . I know not by what fate it comes to pass ...
... Jonson . DCCCXXXVI . All false practices and affectations of knowledge are more odious to God , and deserve to be so to men , than any want or defect of knowledge can be . - Sprat . DCCCXXXVII . I know not by what fate it comes to pass ...
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