Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volumen3H.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1856 |
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... light each mind hath in itself is as good as a philosopher's book ; since in nature we know that it is well to do well , and what is good , and what is evil , although not in the words of art , which philosophers bestow on us ; for out ...
... light each mind hath in itself is as good as a philosopher's book ; since in nature we know that it is well to do well , and what is good , and what is evil , although not in the words of art , which philosophers bestow on us ; for out ...
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... light ; We imitate him , When by noon we're at height They steal wine who take it When he's out of sight . Boys , fill all the glasses , Fill them up now he shines : The higher he rises ; The more he refines , For wine and wit fall As ...
... light ; We imitate him , When by noon we're at height They steal wine who take it When he's out of sight . Boys , fill all the glasses , Fill them up now he shines : The higher he rises ; The more he refines , For wine and wit fall As ...
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... light , the whole body of our nation becomes gradually less dear to us . The very names of affection and kindred , which were the bond of charity whilst we agreed , become new incentives to hatred and rage , when the communion of our ...
... light , the whole body of our nation becomes gradually less dear to us . The very names of affection and kindred , which were the bond of charity whilst we agreed , become new incentives to hatred and rage , when the communion of our ...
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... light was known , no bounds of art When light was there , it knew not to depart , But glaring on remoter objects play'd ; Not languished , and insensibly decay'd . Rome rais'd not art , but barely kept alive , And with old Greece ...
... light was known , no bounds of art When light was there , it knew not to depart , But glaring on remoter objects play'd ; Not languished , and insensibly decay'd . Rome rais'd not art , but barely kept alive , And with old Greece ...
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... light is spent , Ere half my days in this dark world and wide , And that one talent which is death to hide , Lodg'd with me useless , though my soul more bent , To serve therewith my Maker , and present My true account , lest he ...
... light is spent , Ere half my days in this dark world and wide , And that one talent which is death to hide , Lodg'd with me useless , though my soul more bent , To serve therewith my Maker , and present My true account , lest he ...
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?