Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Band 2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... truth . All is custom that goes on in con- tinuity : all customs are not alike beneficial to us . - Zim- merman . CCXVI . The oath of a lover is no stronger than the word of a tapster ; they are both the confirmers of false reckon- ings ...
... truth . All is custom that goes on in con- tinuity : all customs are not alike beneficial to us . - Zim- merman . CCXVI . The oath of a lover is no stronger than the word of a tapster ; they are both the confirmers of false reckon- ings ...
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... truth , that I am of opinion , writing has lost more mistresses than any one mistake in the whole legend of love . - Steele . CCXXVI . As a walled town is more worthier than a village , so is the forehead of a married man more ...
... truth , that I am of opinion , writing has lost more mistresses than any one mistake in the whole legend of love . - Steele . CCXXVI . As a walled town is more worthier than a village , so is the forehead of a married man more ...
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... truth , but the lat- ter never . - Cato . CCXXXIV . The creditor , whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor , may hold his head in sunbeams , and his foot on storms . - Lavater . CCXXXV . A too idly reserved man , is one that is ...
... truth , but the lat- ter never . - Cato . CCXXXIV . The creditor , whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor , may hold his head in sunbeams , and his foot on storms . - Lavater . CCXXXV . A too idly reserved man , is one that is ...
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... truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood . -Shenstone . CCLXXI . Tho ' wit never can be learn'd , It may b ' assum'd , and own'd , and earn'd , And , like our noblest fruits , improv'd , By b'ing transplanted and ...
... truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood . -Shenstone . CCLXXI . Tho ' wit never can be learn'd , It may b ' assum'd , and own'd , and earn'd , And , like our noblest fruits , improv'd , By b'ing transplanted and ...
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... truth , is most common- ly the levity and indiscretion of the giver ; for all circum- stances must be duly weighed ... truths are worthy to be known , That are not strongly vast and overgrown , And strive to explicate appearances , Not ...
... truth , is most common- ly the levity and indiscretion of the giver ; for all circum- stances must be duly weighed ... truths are worthy to be known , That are not strongly vast and overgrown , And strive to explicate appearances , Not ...
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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...