Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...H.G. Bohn, 1856 |
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... Plutarch . XI . // . You shall seldom find a dull fellow of good education , but , if he happens to have any leisure upon his hands , will turn his head to one of those two amusements for all fools of eminence , politics or poetry . The ...
... Plutarch . XI . // . You shall seldom find a dull fellow of good education , but , if he happens to have any leisure upon his hands , will turn his head to one of those two amusements for all fools of eminence , politics or poetry . The ...
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... Plutarch . XXVII . 27 It is a common and just observation , that , when the meaning of any thing is dubious , one can no way better judge of the true intent of it , than by considering who is the author , what is his character in ...
... Plutarch . XXVII . 27 It is a common and just observation , that , when the meaning of any thing is dubious , one can no way better judge of the true intent of it , than by considering who is the author , what is his character in ...
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... Plutarch . CVI . 106 If , instead of furnishing a room with separate portraits , a whole family were to be introduced into a single piece , and represented under some interesting historical subject , suitable to their rank and character ...
... Plutarch . CVI . 106 If , instead of furnishing a room with separate portraits , a whole family were to be introduced into a single piece , and represented under some interesting historical subject , suitable to their rank and character ...
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... Plutarch . CLXXII./72 Though judgment must collect the materials of the goodly structure of friendship , it is affection that gives the cement ; and passion as well as reason should concur in forming a firm and lasting coalition . Hence ...
... Plutarch . CLXXII./72 Though judgment must collect the materials of the goodly structure of friendship , it is affection that gives the cement ; and passion as well as reason should concur in forming a firm and lasting coalition . Hence ...
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... Plutarch . CCCIII . Opiniators naturally differ From other men ; as wooden legs are stiffer Than those of pliant joints , to yield and bow , Which way soe'er they are design'd to go . Butler . CCCIV . It is said by modern philosophers ...
... Plutarch . CCCIII . Opiniators naturally differ From other men ; as wooden legs are stiffer Than those of pliant joints , to yield and bow , Which way soe'er they are design'd to go . Butler . CCCIV . It is said by modern philosophers ...
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Стр. 304 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Стр. 291 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do: Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Стр. 293 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends, thou aim'st at, be thy country's, 4 — — make use — 1 ie make interest. Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Стр. 257 - O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Стр. 224 - 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.
Стр. 232 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Стр. 192 - Thou art not thyself; For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains That issue out of dust : happy thou art not : For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get i And what thou hast, forget'st : thou art not certain ; For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, After the moon : if thou art rich, thou art poor ; For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee...
Стр. 172 - 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: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to...
Стр. 171 - When Love with unconfine'd wings Hovers within my Gates ; And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the Grates : When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The Birds, that wanton in the Air, Know no such Liberty.
Стр. 236 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots...