Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... few , yet of no small use in the conduct of life , that when you fall into a man's conversation , the first thing you should consider is , whe- VOL . II . D ther he has a greater inclination to hear you , LACONICS . 37.
... few , yet of no small use in the conduct of life , that when you fall into a man's conversation , the first thing you should consider is , whe- VOL . II . D ther he has a greater inclination to hear you , LACONICS . 37.
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... conversation is never so much strait- ened and confined as in numerous assemblies . - Addi- son . CLXVI . He who gives himself airs of importance , exhibits the credentials of impotence . - Lavater . CLXVII . There is no instance of a ...
... conversation is never so much strait- ened and confined as in numerous assemblies . - Addi- son . CLXVI . He who gives himself airs of importance , exhibits the credentials of impotence . - Lavater . CLXVII . There is no instance of a ...
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... conversation with him every day for three years . -Lavater . CXCV . Segrais has distinguished the readers of poetry ac- cording to their capacity of judging , into three classes . [ He might have said the same of writers too , if he had ...
... conversation with him every day for three years . -Lavater . CXCV . Segrais has distinguished the readers of poetry ac- cording to their capacity of judging , into three classes . [ He might have said the same of writers too , if he had ...
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... conversation with men of judgment ) they soon forsake them . " - Dryden . CXCVI . Similes , drawn from odd circumstances and effects strangely accidental , bear a near relation to false wit . The best instance of the kind is that ...
... conversation with men of judgment ) they soon forsake them . " - Dryden . CXCVI . Similes , drawn from odd circumstances and effects strangely accidental , bear a near relation to false wit . The best instance of the kind is that ...
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... conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases , and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different figures . Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short ...
... conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases , and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different figures . Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short ...
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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...