Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volumen3H.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1856 |
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... Churchill . As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world , her force is yet superior.— Shaftesbury . DCXLVIII . That I must die , it is my only comfort ; Death is the privilege of human nature , And life ...
... Churchill . As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world , her force is yet superior.— Shaftesbury . DCXLVIII . That I must die , it is my only comfort ; Death is the privilege of human nature , And life ...
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... Churchill . Men are not to be judged by their looks , habits and appearances ; but by the character of their lives and conversations , and by their works . " Tis better that a man's own works , than that another man's words should ...
... Churchill . Men are not to be judged by their looks , habits and appearances ; but by the character of their lives and conversations , and by their works . " Tis better that a man's own works , than that another man's words should ...
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... Churchill . True Eloquence is good sense , delivered in a natural without the artificial ornament of Our common eloquence is usually a cheat upon the understanding ; it deceives us with appearances , instead of things , and makes us ...
... Churchill . True Eloquence is good sense , delivered in a natural without the artificial ornament of Our common eloquence is usually a cheat upon the understanding ; it deceives us with appearances , instead of things , and makes us ...
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... Churchill . Good breeding is as necessary a quality in conversa- tion , to accomplish all the rest , as grace in motion and dancing . Str W. Temple . - DCCXL . Luxurious man , to bring his vice in use , Did after him the world seduce ...
... Churchill . Good breeding is as necessary a quality in conversa- tion , to accomplish all the rest , as grace in motion and dancing . Str W. Temple . - DCCXL . Luxurious man , to bring his vice in use , Did after him the world seduce ...
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... supply , Would we one moment use her piercing eye , Then should we know what woe from grandeur springs And learn to pity , not to envy Kings . Churchill . DCCLXVII . Prudence protects and guides us ; Wit betrays 240 LACONICS .
... supply , Would we one moment use her piercing eye , Then should we know what woe from grandeur springs And learn to pity , not to envy Kings . Churchill . DCCLXVII . Prudence protects and guides us ; Wit betrays 240 LACONICS .
Términos y frases comunes
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
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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?