Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Zväzok 1T. Boys, 1826 - 360 strán (strany) |
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Strana 8
... delight . They are a sort of stately fustian and lofty childishness . Nothing but nature can give a sincere pleasure : where that is not imitated , ' tis grotesque paint- ing ; the fine wonian ends in a fish's tail . — Dryden . XLII ...
... delight . They are a sort of stately fustian and lofty childishness . Nothing but nature can give a sincere pleasure : where that is not imitated , ' tis grotesque paint- ing ; the fine wonian ends in a fish's tail . — Dryden . XLII ...
Strana 29
... ; neither do I see why a brave man should delight in a creature , whose chief use is to help him run away . - Lord Herbert . CXXXIX . Wit , I consider as a singular and D3 LACONICS . 29 end of the year to the other. Every thing ...
... ; neither do I see why a brave man should delight in a creature , whose chief use is to help him run away . - Lord Herbert . CXXXIX . Wit , I consider as a singular and D3 LACONICS . 29 end of the year to the other. Every thing ...
Strana 60
... delight . - Swift . CCXCI . As the memory relieves the mind in her vacant mo- ments , and fills up the chasms of thought with ideas of what is past , we have other faculties that agitate and employ her upon what is to come . These are ...
... delight . - Swift . CCXCI . As the memory relieves the mind in her vacant mo- ments , and fills up the chasms of thought with ideas of what is past , we have other faculties that agitate and employ her upon what is to come . These are ...
Strana 73
... delightful , and wit good- natured . It will lighten sickness , poverty , and affliction ; convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity , and render deformity itself agreeable . - Addison . CCCLIX . Pride is nearly related to beggary ...
... delightful , and wit good- natured . It will lighten sickness , poverty , and affliction ; convert ignorance into an amiable simplicity , and render deformity itself agreeable . - Addison . CCCLIX . Pride is nearly related to beggary ...
Strana 101
... delight to pass his time In spinning reason into harmless rhyme , Or sometimes boldly venture to the play ? - - Say , where's the crime - great man of prudence , say , No two on earth in all things can agree ; All have some darling ...
... delight to pass his time In spinning reason into harmless rhyme , Or sometimes boldly venture to the play ? - - Say , where's the crime - great man of prudence , say , No two on earth in all things can agree ; All have some darling ...
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Apicius bagnio beauty Ben Jonson better body Bruyere Butler Chesterfield Churchill Codrus common conversation death delight dicebox doth dress enemy Epictetus Euripides evil eyes false fame fancy fear folly fools fortune friends genius gentleman give greatest happiness hath heart honest honour Hudibras human humour ignorance inns of court judgment keep kind knave laugh learning less live look Lord Bacon LUDGATE HILL man's mankind manner marriage Massinger matter merit mind Montaigne nature neral never numbers observed opinion pain pass passion pedants person philosopher pleasure Plutarch poet poor praise pride proud racters reason rich ridiculous Roman triumph satire seldom sense Shaftesbury Shakspeare Shenstone soul speak stand sure Swift talk tell thing thou thought tion true truth turn vanity vice virtue whilst whole wise words write young