Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Band 2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... rich in greatest poverty , Makes water wine , turns wooden cups to gold , The homely whistle to sweet music's strain ; Seldom it comes , to few from heaven sent , That much in little - all in naught - Content . From Wilbye's Madrigals ...
... rich in greatest poverty , Makes water wine , turns wooden cups to gold , The homely whistle to sweet music's strain ; Seldom it comes , to few from heaven sent , That much in little - all in naught - Content . From Wilbye's Madrigals ...
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... Rich people who are covetous , are like the cypress tree , they may appear well , but are fruitless ; so rich persons have the means to be generous , yet some are not so , but they should consider they are only 126 LACONICS .
... Rich people who are covetous , are like the cypress tree , they may appear well , but are fruitless ; so rich persons have the means to be generous , yet some are not so , but they should consider they are only 126 LACONICS .
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... rich princely room . * * * There in perpetual summer shade , Apollo's prophets sit , Among the flowers that never fade , But flourish like their wit ; To whom the nymphs upon their lyres , Tune many a curious lay , And with their most ...
... rich princely room . * * * There in perpetual summer shade , Apollo's prophets sit , Among the flowers that never fade , But flourish like their wit ; To whom the nymphs upon their lyres , Tune many a curious lay , And with their most ...
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... rich is happy in the plenty given , The poor contents him with the care of heaven . See the blind beggar dance , the cripple sing ; The sot a hero , lunatic a king ; The starving chemist , in his golden views Supremely blest , the poet ...
... rich is happy in the plenty given , The poor contents him with the care of heaven . See the blind beggar dance , the cripple sing ; The sot a hero , lunatic a king ; The starving chemist , in his golden views Supremely blest , the poet ...
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... rich man . He is eternally whis- pered with intelligence of who are true or false to him in matters of no consequence , and he maintains twenty friends to defend him against the insinuations of one who would perhaps cheat him of an old ...
... rich man . He is eternally whis- pered with intelligence of who are true or false to him in matters of no consequence , and he maintains twenty friends to defend him against the insinuations of one who would perhaps cheat him of an old ...
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admire Bacon beauty Ben Jonson better body Butler common Confucius Congreve death delight doth drink eyes fair fame fear fellow folly fool fortune friends gamester genius give Godfrey Kneller gold gout grace happiness hath hear heart heaven hobby-horse honour Hudibras 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 Mirabel mirth nature nerally never o'er observed once Ovid pains painting passions person play pleased pleasure Plutarch poet poison'd poor Pope praise pride reason rich seldom sense Shakspeare sleep sometimes soul speak sure sweet taste tell temper thee thing thou art thought tion tongue true truth turn twelfth night vex'd virtue wealth whole wisdom wise woman words write youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 183 - 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 277 - 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 223 - 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 199 - 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 238 - 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 258 - 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 223 - 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 181 - 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 178 - 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 93 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...