Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volumen2Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829 |
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... idle or melancholy . His hand guides the plough and the plough his thoughts , and his ditch and landmark is the very mound of his meditations . He expostulates with his oxen very understandingly , and speaks gee , and ree , better than ...
... idle or melancholy . His hand guides the plough and the plough his thoughts , and his ditch and landmark is the very mound of his meditations . He expostulates with his oxen very understandingly , and speaks gee , and ree , better than ...
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... idle , or the indus- trious to be at leisure . We must be always doing , or suffering . - Zimmerman . CLXXXVII . Every county of Great Britain has one hundred or more of fox hunters , who roar instead of speaking ; there- fore , if it ...
... idle , or the indus- trious to be at leisure . We must be always doing , or suffering . - Zimmerman . CLXXXVII . Every county of Great Britain has one hundred or more of fox hunters , who roar instead of speaking ; there- fore , if it ...
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... idle spectator of the labour of the hands and expedition of the feet . - Johnson . CCCV . All controversies that can never end , had better per- haps never begin . The best is to take words as they are most commonly spoke and meant ...
... idle spectator of the labour of the hands and expedition of the feet . - Johnson . CCCV . All controversies that can never end , had better per- haps never begin . The best is to take words as they are most commonly spoke and meant ...
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... idle men : whether these words differ in meaning , or only in sound , I know very well may be disputed , and with appearance enough ; since the covet- ous man takes as much pleasure in his gains , as the vo- luptuous in his luxury , and ...
... idle men : whether these words differ in meaning , or only in sound , I know very well may be disputed , and with appearance enough ; since the covet- ous man takes as much pleasure in his gains , as the vo- luptuous in his luxury , and ...
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... much more , if we reckon all that is spent in absolute sloth , or doing of nothing , with that which is spent in idle em- VOL . II . L ployments , or amusements that amount to nothing . Sloth LACONICS . 121 CCCCXC. ...
... much more , if we reckon all that is spent in absolute sloth , or doing of nothing , with that which is spent in idle em- VOL . II . L ployments , or amusements that amount to nothing . Sloth LACONICS . 121 CCCCXC. ...
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Página 183 - 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...
Página 277 - 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.
Página 223 - 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.
Página 199 - 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.
Página 238 - 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.
Página 258 - 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.
Página 223 - 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...
Página 181 - 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.
Página 178 - 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.
Página 93 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...