Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... fool at least shall be . But he that feels the sorest fits ' Scapes with no less than loss of wits . Unhappy life they gain , Which love do entertain . XVI . Sir W. Raleigh . Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry ; and he that is ...
... fool at least shall be . But he that feels the sorest fits ' Scapes with no less than loss of wits . Unhappy life they gain , Which love do entertain . XVI . Sir W. Raleigh . Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry ; and he that is ...
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... fool's self - chosen snare , Fond fancy's scum , and dregs of scatter'd thought ; Band of all evils ; cradle of causeless care ; Thou web of ill , whose end is never wrought ; Desire ! Desire ! I have too dearly bought , With price of ...
... fool's self - chosen snare , Fond fancy's scum , and dregs of scatter'd thought ; Band of all evils ; cradle of causeless care ; Thou web of ill , whose end is never wrought ; Desire ! Desire ! I have too dearly bought , With price of ...
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... fool , The busy , buzzing , talking , harden'd knave ; The quaint smooth rogue , that sins ' gainst his reason , Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal : And mutiny the dictates of his spirit . CXLIII . Otway . If the trade of war ...
... fool , The busy , buzzing , talking , harden'd knave ; The quaint smooth rogue , that sins ' gainst his reason , Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal : And mutiny the dictates of his spirit . CXLIII . Otway . If the trade of war ...
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... fools . - Sir W. Raleigh . CCIV . One world sufficed not Alexander's mind : Coop'd up he seem'd , in earth and seas ... fool presumes LACONICS : 45 CCIV. ...
... fools . - Sir W. Raleigh . CCIV . One world sufficed not Alexander's mind : Coop'd up he seem'd , in earth and seas ... fool presumes LACONICS : 45 CCIV. ...
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... fool presumes t ' advise , And if more happy , thinks himself more wise : All wretchedly deplore the present state ; And that advice seems best which comes to late . CCVIII . Sedley . The distinguished part of our constitution is its ...
... fool presumes t ' advise , And if more happy , thinks himself more wise : All wretchedly deplore the present state ; And that advice seems best which comes to late . CCVIII . Sedley . The distinguished part of our constitution is its ...
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Página 15 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Página 112 - But he 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...
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Página 89 - While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe, And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt. Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such, a woman oweth to her husband...
Página 284 - 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 252 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Página 244 - Hail, wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else! By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Página 243 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew: fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Página 98 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.