Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...H.G. Bohn, 1856 |
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... fear of breaking his neck . He seldom commits any villainy , but in a legal way , and makes the law bear him out in that for which it hangs others . He always robs under the vizor of law , and picks pockets with tricks in equity . By ...
... fear of breaking his neck . He seldom commits any villainy , but in a legal way , and makes the law bear him out in that for which it hangs others . He always robs under the vizor of law , and picks pockets with tricks in equity . By ...
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... fear they shou'd the ore purloin⚫ So he that toils and labours hard To gain , and what he gets has spar'd , Is from the use of all debarr'd . And tho ' he can produce more spankers Than all the usurers and bankers , Yet after more and ...
... fear they shou'd the ore purloin⚫ So he that toils and labours hard To gain , and what he gets has spar'd , Is from the use of all debarr'd . And tho ' he can produce more spankers Than all the usurers and bankers , Yet after more and ...
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... fear the word bear is hardly to be understood among the polite people ; but I take the meaning to be , that one who insures a real value upon an imaginary thing , is said to sell a bear , and is the same thing as a promise among ...
... fear the word bear is hardly to be understood among the polite people ; but I take the meaning to be , that one who insures a real value upon an imaginary thing , is said to sell a bear , and is the same thing as a promise among ...
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... fear does things so like a witch , ' Tis hard t ' unriddle which is which ; Set up communities of senses , To chop and change intelligences ; As Rosicrucian virtuosis Can see with ears , and hear with noses ; And , when they neither see ...
... fear does things so like a witch , ' Tis hard t ' unriddle which is which ; Set up communities of senses , To chop and change intelligences ; As Rosicrucian virtuosis Can see with ears , and hear with noses ; And , when they neither see ...
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... fear lest his poyson go further than his antidote . -Fuller . CCVIII.2 If our sex were wise , a lover should have a certificate from the last woman he served , how he was turned away , before he was received into the service of another ...
... fear lest his poyson go further than his antidote . -Fuller . CCVIII.2 If our sex were wise , a lover should have a certificate from the last woman he served , how he was turned away , before he was received into the service of another ...
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Página 304 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 291 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do: Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Página 293 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends, thou aim'st at, be thy country's, 4 — — make use — 1 ie make interest. Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Página 257 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 224 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Página 232 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Página 192 - Thou art not thyself; For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains That issue out of dust : happy thou art not : For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get i And what thou hast, forget'st : thou art not certain ; For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, After the moon : if thou art rich, thou art poor ; For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee...
Página 172 - 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: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to...
Página 171 - When Love with unconfine'd wings Hovers within my Gates ; And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the Grates : When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The Birds, that wanton in the Air, Know no such Liberty.
Página 236 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots...