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... give a sincere pleasure : where that is not imitated , ' tis grotesque paint- ing ; the fine woman ends in a fish's tail . - Dryden . XLII . When a philosopher has once laid hold of a favourite principle , which , perhaps , accounts for ...
... give a sincere pleasure : where that is not imitated , ' tis grotesque paint- ing ; the fine woman ends in a fish's tail . - Dryden . XLII . When a philosopher has once laid hold of a favourite principle , which , perhaps , accounts for ...
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... give it way . - Johnson . LIX . Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies , as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together . Shenstone . LX . A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to com ...
... give it way . - Johnson . LIX . Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies , as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together . Shenstone . LX . A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to com ...
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... give it up as unattainable . - Chesterfield . LXIV . Old sciences are unravelled like old stockings , by be- ginning at the foot . — Swift . LXV . The figure which a man makes in life , the reception which he meets with in company , the ...
... give it up as unattainable . - Chesterfield . LXIV . Old sciences are unravelled like old stockings , by be- ginning at the foot . — Swift . LXV . The figure which a man makes in life , the reception which he meets with in company , the ...
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... give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master . Some of which may be of his drawing , but he is not allowed to touch the principal figure . Art may make a man a suit of clothes , but nature ...
... give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master . Some of which may be of his drawing , but he is not allowed to touch the principal figure . Art may make a man a suit of clothes , but nature ...
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... give repute and trust , Content or pleasure , but the good and just ? Judges and senates have been bought for gold , Esteem and love are never to be sold . CIII . Pope . If some men died , and others did not , death would indeed be a ...
... give repute and trust , Content or pleasure , but the good and just ? Judges and senates have been bought for gold , Esteem and love are never to be sold . CIII . Pope . If some men died , and others did not , death would indeed be a ...
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Sida 56 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Sida 14 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Sida 95 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Sida 24 - Tam was glorious, o'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! " But pleasures are like poppies spread : you seize the flower, its bloom is shed; or like the snow falls in the river, a moment white — then melts for ever; or like the Borealis' race, that flit ere you can point their place; or like the rainbow's lovely form evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; the hour approaches Tam maun ride: that hour, o...
Sida 74 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Sida 175 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise : it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Sida 120 - The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit, are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard table, or hears your voice at a tavern, -when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day : demands it before he can receive it in a lump.
Sida 64 - I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there ; if I take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand hold me,
Sida 179 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts...
Sida 181 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.