Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumen1T. Boys, 1826 - 360 páginas |
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... sort of provision for ours . — Swift . XXIX . Old friends are best . King James used to call for his old shoes ; they were easiest for his feet . - Selden . XXX . The conceit that a cat has nine lives , has cost at least nine lives in ...
... sort of provision for ours . — Swift . XXIX . Old friends are best . King James used to call for his old shoes ; they were easiest for his feet . - Selden . XXX . The conceit that a cat has nine lives , has cost at least nine lives in ...
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... 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 . When a philosopher has ...
... 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 . When a philosopher has ...
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... sort of glass , wherein beholders generally discover every body's face but their own ; -which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world , and that so very few are offended with it . - Swift . LV . A man's ...
... sort of glass , wherein beholders generally discover every body's face but their own ; -which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world , and that so very few are offended with it . - Swift . LV . A man's ...
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... sort of a mechanic set up with a stock and tools for his trade , at as little expense as a tailor ; and indeed there is much analogy between the utensils and abilities of both : thus the tailor's hell is the type of a critic's common ...
... sort of a mechanic set up with a stock and tools for his trade , at as little expense as a tailor ; and indeed there is much analogy between the utensils and abilities of both : thus the tailor's hell is the type of a critic's common ...
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... ; where every one will acknowledge there is a double sort of a likeness , a good one and a bad . - Dryden . CXXX . Planters of trees ought to encourage themselves , D 2 LACONICS . 27 afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy...
... ; where every one will acknowledge there is a double sort of a likeness , a good one and a bad . - Dryden . CXXX . Planters of trees ought to encourage themselves , D 2 LACONICS . 27 afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy...
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