Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, 第 2 卷Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... matters of great weight with very little force , by the advantage of his trepanning screws . He is very skilful in all the mechanics of cheat , the ma- thematical magic of imposture ; and will outdo the ex- pectations of the most ...
... matters of great weight with very little force , by the advantage of his trepanning screws . He is very skilful in all the mechanics of cheat , the ma- thematical magic of imposture ; and will outdo the ex- pectations of the most ...
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... matter . XXXIV . Butler . He only sees well who sees the whole in the parts , and the parts in the whole . I know but three classes of men - those who see the whole , those who see but a part , and those who see both together ...
... matter . XXXIV . Butler . He only sees well who sees the whole in the parts , and the parts in the whole . I know but three classes of men - those who see the whole , those who see but a part , and those who see both together ...
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... matters of learning and philosophy , the practice of pulling down is far pleasanter , and affords more enter- tainment , than that of building and setting up . Many have succeeded to a miracle , in the first , who have mi- serably ...
... matters of learning and philosophy , the practice of pulling down is far pleasanter , and affords more enter- tainment , than that of building and setting up . Many have succeeded to a miracle , in the first , who have mi- serably ...
第 69 頁
... matters . His wit is like fire in a flint , that is nothing while it is in , and nothing again as soon as it is out . He is a kind of vagabond writer , that is never out of his way ; for nothing is beside the purpose with him , that ...
... matters . His wit is like fire in a flint , that is nothing while it is in , and nothing again as soon as it is out . He is a kind of vagabond writer , that is never out of his way ; for nothing is beside the purpose with him , that ...
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... matter to distinguish the one from the other : but there is goodwill at the bottom of it ( however distempered ) for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits . - Se песа . ССХСІІ . Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some ...
... matter to distinguish the one from the other : but there is goodwill at the bottom of it ( however distempered ) for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits . - Se песа . ССХСІІ . Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some ...
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第 183 頁 - 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...
第 277 頁 - 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.
第 223 頁 - 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.
第 199 頁 - 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.
第 238 頁 - 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.
第 258 頁 - 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.
第 223 頁 - 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...
第 181 頁 - 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.
第 178 頁 - 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.
第 93 頁 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...