Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, 2 tomasCarey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... Ovid , alluding to him , calls it a favour bestowed by the gods .-- From the Ita- lian . а CCXLII . A man endowed with great perfections , without good- breeding , is like one who has his pockets full of gold , but always wants change ...
... Ovid , alluding to him , calls it a favour bestowed by the gods .-- From the Ita- lian . а CCXLII . A man endowed with great perfections , without good- breeding , is like one who has his pockets full of gold , but always wants change ...
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... CCCXLVI . I've heard old cunning stagers Say fools for arguments use wagers . CCCXLVII . Butler . Ovid finely compares a man of broken fortune to a falling column ; the lower it sinks the greater weight 86 LACONICS .
... CCCXLVI . I've heard old cunning stagers Say fools for arguments use wagers . CCCXLVII . Butler . Ovid finely compares a man of broken fortune to a falling column ; the lower it sinks the greater weight 86 LACONICS .
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... Ovid - Congreve in imit . DCCCCLXXIV . At midnight all rest , Time's dead low water , when all minds divest To - morrow's business , when the lab'rers have Such rest in bed , that their last church - yard grave , Subject to change ...
... Ovid - Congreve in imit . DCCCCLXXIV . At midnight all rest , Time's dead low water , when all minds divest To - morrow's business , when the lab'rers have Such rest in bed , that their last church - yard grave , Subject to change ...
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... Ovid , sen . Name me a profest poet , that his poetry did ever afford him so much as a competency . Ay , your god of poets there whom all of you admire and reverence so much , Homer , what was he ? what was he ? Tucca . Marry , I'll ...
... Ovid , sen . Name me a profest poet , that his poetry did ever afford him so much as a competency . Ay , your god of poets there whom all of you admire and reverence so much , Homer , what was he ? what was he ? Tucca . Marry , I'll ...
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... Ovid , sen . Aye , or give him place in the common- wealth ? worship , or attendants ? make him be carried in his litter ? Tucca . Thou speakest sentences , old Bias . The Poetaster - Ben Jonson . MCLXVIII . It is safer to affront some ...
... Ovid , sen . Aye , or give him place in the common- wealth ? worship , or attendants ? make him be carried in his litter ? Tucca . Thou speakest sentences , old Bias . The Poetaster - Ben Jonson . MCLXVIII . It is safer to affront some ...
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183 psl. - 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...
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