Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... youth , and has some thrifty hob - nail proverbs to clout his discourse . He is a niggard all the week , except only market day , where , if his corn sell well , he thinks he may be drunk with a good conscience . He is sensible of no ...
... youth , and has some thrifty hob - nail proverbs to clout his discourse . He is a niggard all the week , except only market day , where , if his corn sell well , he thinks he may be drunk with a good conscience . He is sensible of no ...
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... youth , and comfort in age . learning the useful part of every profession , very moderate abilities will suffice ; even if the mind be a little balanced with stupidity , it may in this case be useful . Great abi- lities have always been ...
... youth , and comfort in age . learning the useful part of every profession , very moderate abilities will suffice ; even if the mind be a little balanced with stupidity , it may in this case be useful . Great abi- lities have always been ...
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... youth , and traduce superiors . When do we bring a vice upon the stage , That does go off unpunish'd ? Do we teach , By the success of wicked undertakings , Others to tread in their forbidden footsteps ? We show no arts of Lydian ...
... youth , and traduce superiors . When do we bring a vice upon the stage , That does go off unpunish'd ? Do we teach , By the success of wicked undertakings , Others to tread in their forbidden footsteps ? We show no arts of Lydian ...
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... youth , false slave to false delight , Base watch of woes , sin's pack - horse , virtue's snare : Thou nursest all , and murderest all that are . CCCLXXX . Shakspeare . People of quality are fine things , indeed , if they had but a ...
... youth , false slave to false delight , Base watch of woes , sin's pack - horse , virtue's snare : Thou nursest all , and murderest all that are . CCCLXXX . Shakspeare . People of quality are fine things , indeed , if they had but a ...
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... youth , Cannot live together ; Youth is full of pleasance , Age is full of care : Youth like summer morn , Age like winter weather ; Youth like summer brave , Age like winter bare , Youth is full of sport , Age's breath is short , Youth ...
... youth , Cannot live together ; Youth is full of pleasance , Age is full of care : Youth like summer morn , Age like winter weather ; Youth like summer brave , Age like winter bare , Youth is full of sport , Age's breath is short , Youth ...
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Page 183 - 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...
Page 277 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Page 223 - 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.
Page 199 - 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.
Page 238 - 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.
Page 258 - 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.
Page 223 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page 181 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page 178 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Page 93 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...