Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1856 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... fortune passes for a fault , and is justified but by a very few persons . - St . Evremond . LXXXVIII . A knight of the long robe is more honourable than a knight made in the field ; for furs are dearer than spurs . Sir T. Overbury ...
... fortune passes for a fault , and is justified but by a very few persons . - St . Evremond . LXXXVIII . A knight of the long robe is more honourable than a knight made in the field ; for furs are dearer than spurs . Sir T. Overbury ...
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... fortune , may , with more reason , claim the privilege to forsake her ; and , at a distance from her , to seek repose that may balance the advantages she has denied them . What injury do we do her to pay her in the same coin , and ...
... fortune , may , with more reason , claim the privilege to forsake her ; and , at a distance from her , to seek repose that may balance the advantages she has denied them . What injury do we do her to pay her in the same coin , and ...
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... fortune , to lift men up or cast them down . - Sir T. More . CLV . Mr. Sage . — I have never read of a duel among the Romans , and yet their nobility used more liberty with their tongues than one may do now without being chal- lenged ...
... fortune , to lift men up or cast them down . - Sir T. More . CLV . Mr. Sage . — I have never read of a duel among the Romans , and yet their nobility used more liberty with their tongues than one may do now without being chal- lenged ...
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... prevent men's expenses beyond their fortunes , to countenance virtue , and to raise that esteem due to plain sense and common honesty.— Sir W. Temple . CLXXVII . Scandal is a never failing vehicle for dullness 42 LACONICS .
... prevent men's expenses beyond their fortunes , to countenance virtue , and to raise that esteem due to plain sense and common honesty.— Sir W. Temple . CLXXVII . Scandal is a never failing vehicle for dullness 42 LACONICS .
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... fortune of Mecænas , and of such other great men , who had taste enough , or art enough , to encourage genius and learning . The dexterity of their conduct in this respect has even hid or disguised the folly or deformity of their ...
... fortune of Mecænas , and of such other great men , who had taste enough , or art enough , to encourage genius and learning . The dexterity of their conduct in this respect has even hid or disguised the folly or deformity of their ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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?