Character Writings of the Seventeenth CenturyHenry Morley |
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... vice , and then describe the quality and manners of the man who dissembles . After that I will endeavour to describe also the other qualities of mind , each in its kind . Then follow the Characters of these twenty - eight qualities ...
... vice , and then describe the quality and manners of the man who dissembles . After that I will endeavour to describe also the other qualities of mind , each in its kind . Then follow the Characters of these twenty - eight qualities ...
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... vice is for the most part so proper to him as he will grudge any man the practice of it but himself ; like that grave burgess , who being desired to lend his clothes to represent a part in a comedy , answered : No , by his leave , he ...
... vice is for the most part so proper to him as he will grudge any man the practice of it but himself ; like that grave burgess , who being desired to lend his clothes to represent a part in a comedy , answered : No , by his leave , he ...
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... vice that moves them . If his patron be given to music , he opens his chops and sings , or with a wry neck falls to tuning his instrument ; if that fail , he takes the height of his lord with a hawking pole . He follows the man's ...
... vice that moves them . If his patron be given to music , he opens his chops and sings , or with a wry neck falls to tuning his instrument ; if that fail , he takes the height of his lord with a hawking pole . He follows the man's ...
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... vice than prentices on Shrove - Tuesday . He loves his friend as a counsellor at law loves the velvet breeches he was first made barrister in , he will be sure to wear him thread- bare ere he forsake him . He sleeps with a tobacco ...
... vice than prentices on Shrove - Tuesday . He loves his friend as a counsellor at law loves the velvet breeches he was first made barrister in , he will be sure to wear him thread- bare ere he forsake him . He sleeps with a tobacco ...
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... vice , for he will not in a hundred pound take one light sixpence . And it seems he was at Tilbury Camp , for you must not tell him of a Spaniard . He is a man of no conscience , for ( like the Jakes - farmer that swooned with going ...
... vice , for he will not in a hundred pound take one light sixpence . And it seems he was at Tilbury Camp , for you must not tell him of a Spaniard . He is a man of no conscience , for ( like the Jakes - farmer that swooned with going ...
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Page 100 - Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to lend, And entertains the harmless day, With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 99 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill...
Page 157 - A Child is a man in a small letter, yet the best copy of Adam before he tasted of Eve or the apple; and he is happy whose small practice in the world can only write his character. He is nature's fresh picture newly drawn in oil, which time, and much handling, dims and defaces.
Page 292 - Twas such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down ; For he...
Page 70 - ... to do well. She bestows her year's wages at next fair, and in choosing her garments counts no bravery in the world like decency.
Page 313 - All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey. This Flecknoe ' found, who, like Augustus, young Was called to empire and had governed long, In prose and verse was owned without dispute Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute.
Page 88 - ... penknives. When he builds ^no poor tenant's cottage hinders his prospect : they are indeed his almshouses, though there be painted on them no such superscription. He never sits up late but when he hunts the badger, the vowed foe of his lambs...
Page 158 - We laugh at his foolish sports, but his game is our earnest ; and his drums, rattles, and hobby-horses but the emblems and mocking of men's business.
Page 158 - He is the Christian's example, and the old man's relapse; the one imitates his pureness, and the other falls into his simplicity. Could he put off his body with his little coat, he had got eternity without a burden, and exchanged but one heaven for another.
Page 374 - ... Self-Martyrdom than part with the least Scruple of his Freehold; for it is impossible to dye his dark Ignorance into a lighter Colour. He is resolved to understand no Man's Reason but his own, because he finds no Man can understand his but himself. His Wits are like a Sack, which, the French Proverb says, is tied faster before it is full, than when it is ; and his Opinions are like Plants that grow upon Rocks, that stick fast though they have no Rooting. His Understanding is hardened like Phar\ao\h's...