Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed, 2 tomas1829 |
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... rich in greatest poverty , Makes water wine , turns wooden cups to gold , The homely whistle to sweet music's strain ; Seldom it comes , to few from heaven sent , That much in little - all in naught - Content . From Wilbye's Madrigals ...
... rich in greatest poverty , Makes water wine , turns wooden cups to gold , The homely whistle to sweet music's strain ; Seldom it comes , to few from heaven sent , That much in little - all in naught - Content . From Wilbye's Madrigals ...
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... Rich people who are covetous , are like the cypress tree , they may appear well , but are fruitless ; so rich persons have the means to be generous , yet some are not so , but they should consider they are only 126 LACONICS ,
... Rich people who are covetous , are like the cypress tree , they may appear well , but are fruitless ; so rich persons have the means to be generous , yet some are not so , but they should consider they are only 126 LACONICS ,
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... rich princely room . * * There in perpetual summer shade , Apollo's prophets sit , Among the flowers that never fade , But flourish like their wit ; To whom the nymphs upon their lyres , Tune many a curious lay , And with their most ...
... rich princely room . * * There in perpetual summer shade , Apollo's prophets sit , Among the flowers that never fade , But flourish like their wit ; To whom the nymphs upon their lyres , Tune many a curious lay , And with their most ...
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... rich is happy in the plenty given , The poor contents him with the care of heaven . See the blind beggar dance , the cripple sing ; The sot a hero , lunatic a king ; The starving chemist , in his golden views Supremely blest , the poet ...
... rich is happy in the plenty given , The poor contents him with the care of heaven . See the blind beggar dance , the cripple sing ; The sot a hero , lunatic a king ; The starving chemist , in his golden views Supremely blest , the poet ...
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... rich man . He is eternally whis- pered with intelligence of who are true or false to him in matters of no consequence , and he maintains twenty friends to defend him against the insinuations of one who would perhaps cheat him of an old ...
... rich man . He is eternally whis- pered with intelligence of who are true or false to him in matters of no consequence , and he maintains twenty friends to defend him against the insinuations of one who would perhaps cheat him of an old ...
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Astrology Bacon beauty Ben Jonson better body Butler common Confucius Congreve delight doth drink endeavour eyes fair fame fear fellow folly fool fortune friends gamester genius give Godfrey Kneller gold gout grace happiness hath hear heart heaven hobby-horse honour Hudibras humour idle Jonson keep kind king labour laugh learning live look looking-glass Lord Bacon Lord Bolingbroke lover man's mankind marriage Massinger men's mind Mirabel mirth nature nerally never o'er observed once Ovid pains painting passions person play pleased pleasure Plutarch poet poison'd poor Pope praise pride reason rich scarce seldom sense Shakspeare Shenstone sleep sometimes soul speak sure sweet taste tell temper thee thing thou art thought tion tongue true truth turn vex'd virtue wealth whole wisdom wise woman words write youth
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191 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...
257 psl. - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps death his court ; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp...
233 psl. - 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.
207 psl. - 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.
257 psl. - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
246 psl. - 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.
264 psl. - 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.
242 psl. - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
99 psl. - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
121 psl. - ... our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.