Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumen1T. Boys, 1826 - 360 páginas |
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... weak and slender plank to trust our all upon . - Sterne . VI . There is some help for all the defects of fortune ; for if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes , he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter . - Cowley ...
... weak and slender plank to trust our all upon . - Sterne . VI . There is some help for all the defects of fortune ; for if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes , he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter . - Cowley ...
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... weak men . - Lord Bacon . XX . A poet hurts himself by writing prose ; as a race - horse hurts his motions by condescending to draw in a team.— Shenstone XXI . From the earliest dawnings of policy to this 4 LACONICS . many wild and ...
... weak men . - Lord Bacon . XX . A poet hurts himself by writing prose ; as a race - horse hurts his motions by condescending to draw in a team.— Shenstone XXI . From the earliest dawnings of policy to this 4 LACONICS . many wild and ...
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... weakness , and he humorously describes it " as a childishness of the understanding , wherein , during the fit , it plays with and dandles some insignificant pup- pet , without any end in view . " Thus , a tune , a proverb , a scrap of ...
... weakness , and he humorously describes it " as a childishness of the understanding , wherein , during the fit , it plays with and dandles some insignificant pup- pet , without any end in view . " Thus , a tune , a proverb , a scrap of ...
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... weak spirits , the other recreates and revives them . Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain ; the hearers either strain their faculties to accompany its towerings , or are left behind in envy or despair . Good - humour boasts no ...
... weak spirits , the other recreates and revives them . Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain ; the hearers either strain their faculties to accompany its towerings , or are left behind in envy or despair . Good - humour boasts no ...
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... weakness ; -is one of the fatalest mis- takes desperation can hurry a man into . — Sterne . CCCLXXV . A game of jokes is composed partly of skill , partly of chance ; a man may be beat at times by one who has not the tenth part of his ...
... weakness ; -is one of the fatalest mis- takes desperation can hurry a man into . — Sterne . CCCLXXV . A game of jokes is composed partly of skill , partly of chance ; a man may be beat at times by one who has not the tenth part of his ...
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