Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, Volym 21829 |
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... Congreve . DCCCXXXI . " The folly of fools , " that is , the most egregious piece of folly that any man can be guilty of , is to play the knave . The vulgar translation renders this clause a lit- tle otherwise , the fool turns aside to ...
... Congreve . DCCCXXXI . " The folly of fools , " that is , the most egregious piece of folly that any man can be guilty of , is to play the knave . The vulgar translation renders this clause a lit- tle otherwise , the fool turns aside to ...
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... Congreve . Love , that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health , is short - lived , and apt to have ague fits . - Eras- mus . DCCCLIX . He who studies the life , yet bungles , may draw some faint imitation of it , but he who ...
... Congreve . Love , that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health , is short - lived , and apt to have ague fits . - Eras- mus . DCCCLIX . He who studies the life , yet bungles , may draw some faint imitation of it , but he who ...
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... Congreve . DCCCLXXXIV . Thou more than most sweet glove , Unto my more sweet love , Suffer me to store with kisses This empty lodging , that now misses The pure rosy hand that wear thee , Whiter than the kid that bear thee ; Thou art ...
... Congreve . DCCCLXXXIV . Thou more than most sweet glove , Unto my more sweet love , Suffer me to store with kisses This empty lodging , that now misses The pure rosy hand that wear thee , Whiter than the kid that bear thee ; Thou art ...
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... Congreve . DCCCLXXXVIII . With that low cunning , which in fools supplies , And amply too , the place of being wise , Which Nature , kind indulgent parent , gave To qualify the blockhead for a knave ; With that smooth falsehood whose ...
... Congreve . DCCCLXXXVIII . With that low cunning , which in fools supplies , And amply too , the place of being wise , Which Nature , kind indulgent parent , gave To qualify the blockhead for a knave ; With that smooth falsehood whose ...
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... courtship to marriage , is but as the music in the play - house , till the curtain is drawn ; but , that once up , then opens the scene of pleasure . - Congreve . DCCCCIII . I have ever thought that the wise men 222 LACONICS .
... courtship to marriage , is but as the music in the play - house , till the curtain is drawn ; but , that once up , then opens the scene of pleasure . - Congreve . DCCCCIII . I have ever thought that the wise men 222 LACONICS .
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Sida 191 - 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...
Sida 257 - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps death his court ; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp...
Sida 233 - 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.
Sida 207 - 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.
Sida 257 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Sida 246 - 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.
Sida 264 - 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.
Sida 242 - 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.
Sida 99 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
Sida 121 - ... our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.