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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... XVII . I have long thought , that the different abilities of men , which we call wisdom or prudence for the con- duct of public affairs or private life , grow directly out 5 of that little grain of intellect or good sense 4 LACONICS .
... XVII . I have long thought , that the different abilities of men , which we call wisdom or prudence for the con- duct of public affairs or private life , grow directly out 5 of that little grain of intellect or good sense 4 LACONICS .
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In Three Volumes. 5 of that little grain of intellect or good sense which they bring with them into the world ; and that the defect of it in men comes from some want in their conception or birth . - Sir W. Temple . XVIII . Love is ...
In Three Volumes. 5 of that little grain of intellect or good sense which they bring with them into the world ; and that the defect of it in men comes from some want in their conception or birth . - Sir W. Temple . XVIII . Love is ...
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... - ducements to admiration as well as the wise ; and it is the business of a sensible government to impress all ranks with a sense of subordination , whether this be effected by a diamond buckle , or a virtuous edict 20 LACONICS .
... - ducements to admiration as well as the wise ; and it is the business of a sensible government to impress all ranks with a sense of subordination , whether this be effected by a diamond buckle , or a virtuous edict 20 LACONICS .
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... sense . CLXXVI . Roscommon . I cannot but observe , to the honour of our country , that the good qualities amongst us seem to be natural , and the ill ones more accidental , and such as would be easily changed by the examples of princes ...
... sense . CLXXVI . Roscommon . I cannot but observe , to the honour of our country , that the good qualities amongst us seem to be natural , and the ill ones more accidental , and such as would be easily changed by the examples of princes ...
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... Alas ! a lovely she no pity taketh , To know my miseries ; but , chaste and cruel , My fall her glory maketh , Yet still her eyes give to my flames their fuel . Fire ! burn me quite , till sense of burning 54 LACONICS .
... Alas ! a lovely she no pity taketh , To know my miseries ; but , chaste and cruel , My fall her glory maketh , Yet still her eyes give to my flames their fuel . Fire ! burn me quite , till sense of burning 54 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?