Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Band 3H.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1856 |
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... eye , All colours , beauties , both of art and nature , Are giv'n in vain to men ; so , without love All beauties bred in woman are in vain , All virtues born in men lie buried ; For love informs them as the sun doth colours . And as ...
... eye , All colours , beauties , both of art and nature , Are giv'n in vain to men ; so , without love All beauties bred in woman are in vain , All virtues born in men lie buried ; For love informs them as the sun doth colours . And as ...
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... eyes Love owes its chiefest victories , And borrows those bright arms from you With which he does the world subdue Yet you yourselves are not above The empire nor the griefs of love . Then wrack not lovers with disdain , Lest love on ...
... eyes Love owes its chiefest victories , And borrows those bright arms from you With which he does the world subdue Yet you yourselves are not above The empire nor the griefs of love . Then wrack not lovers with disdain , Lest love on ...
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... eye , Shews from a rising ground possession nigh ; Shortens the distance , or o'erlooks it quite : So easy ' tis to travel with the sight . LXIX . Dryden . If we do not weigh and consider to what end this life is given us , and ...
... eye , Shews from a rising ground possession nigh ; Shortens the distance , or o'erlooks it quite : So easy ' tis to travel with the sight . LXIX . Dryden . If we do not weigh and consider to what end this life is given us , and ...
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... eyes . Or of thy gifts , at least , shade out some part . But she forbids , with blushing words , she says , She builds her fame on higher - seated praise : But my heart burns , I cannot silent be . Then since ( dear life , ) you fain ...
... eyes . Or of thy gifts , at least , shade out some part . But she forbids , with blushing words , she says , She builds her fame on higher - seated praise : But my heart burns , I cannot silent be . Then since ( dear life , ) you fain ...
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... any kind of resource.- Burke . - LXXXIV . Reason ! how many eyes hast thou to see evils , and how dim , nay , blind , thou art in preventing them . → Sir P. Sidney . To die is so small a matter to the English 22 LACONICS .
... any kind of resource.- Burke . - LXXXIV . Reason ! how many eyes hast thou to see evils , and how dim , nay , blind , thou art in preventing them . → Sir P. Sidney . To die is so small a matter to the English 22 LACONICS .
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson better Brown Burke charms Charron Churchill Clarendon court creature death Defence of Poesy delight divine doth Dryden ears earth Elizium esteem ev'ry evil Evremond eyes fair fall fame fancy fear flowers folly fools fortune friends give Goldsmith grace grow happy hate hath heart heaven honour humour king knowledge labour laugh learning liberty light live look Lord Bacon man's men's Milton mind nature never o'er Overbury passion pleasure poor praise pride racter Raleigh reason rich Roscommon Samson Agonistes Saville Sejanus sense Shakspeare shame shew shine Sidney Sir W soul Spenser spirit spleen strong madness sweet taste Tatler Temple thee things thou art thought thro thyself Tom Brown tongue true truth unto vice virtue whilst wind wisdom wise woman words wretched Young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 266 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Seite 232 - But know that in the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as Chief; among these Fancy next Her office holds ; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes, Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell, when nature rests.
Seite 125 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Seite 337 - Now the bright morning star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.
Seite 120 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Seite 152 - But there is no such man ; for, brother, men Can counsel, and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel ; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Charm ache with air, and agony with words.
Seite 333 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text...
Seite 263 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably ; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Seite 103 - Nay, do not think I flatter ; For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Seite 330 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peer?