Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Band 2C. Tilt, 1840 |
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... Sir J. Reynolds . XIX . An healthy old fellow , that is not a fool , is the happiest creature living It is at that time of life only , men enjoy their faculties with pleasure and satisfaction . It is then B 3 LACONICS 5 XIV. ...
... Sir J. Reynolds . XIX . An healthy old fellow , that is not a fool , is the happiest creature living It is at that time of life only , men enjoy their faculties with pleasure and satisfaction . It is then B 3 LACONICS 5 XIV. ...
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... happiness ! — Addison . LXIX . Our meats and our sports ( much of them ) have relation to church - works . The coffin of our Christmas pies , in shape long , is in imitation of the cratch ; our choosing kings and queens on twelfth night ...
... happiness ! — Addison . LXIX . Our meats and our sports ( much of them ) have relation to church - works . The coffin of our Christmas pies , in shape long , is in imitation of the cratch ; our choosing kings and queens on twelfth night ...
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... happiness , that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery . — Burton . CXXVI She neglects her heart who studies her glass . - Lavater . CXXVII . The best born , and the first born , are oftimes the worst , and the last to ...
... happiness , that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery . — Burton . CXXVI She neglects her heart who studies her glass . - Lavater . CXXVII . The best born , and the first born , are oftimes the worst , and the last to ...
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... happier too , without it . CLXXXIX . Butler . The learned Vossius says , his barber used to comb his head in iambics . And indeed , in all ages , one of this useful profession , this order of cosmetic philosophers , has been celebrated ...
... happier too , without it . CLXXXIX . Butler . The learned Vossius says , his barber used to comb his head in iambics . And indeed , in all ages , one of this useful profession , this order of cosmetic philosophers , has been celebrated ...
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... - able . It is one species of despair to have no room to hope for any addition to one's happiness . His following wish must then be to wish he had some fresh object for his : wishes a strong argument that our minds and bodies 64 LACONICS .
... - able . It is one species of despair to have no room to hope for any addition to one's happiness . His following wish must then be to wish he had some fresh object for his : wishes a strong argument that our minds and bodies 64 LACONICS .
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Addison Bacon beauty Ben Jonson better body Butler common Confucius Congreve conversation Cynthia's Revels death delight doth Dryden excellent eyes fair fame fear fellow folly fool fortune friends genius give Godfrey Kneller gold Goldsmith gout grace happiness hath hear heart heaven 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 Socrates sometimes soul speak sweet taste Tatler tell temper thee thing thou art thought tion tongue true truth turn vex'd virtue wealth whole wisdom wise woman words write youth