Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 3C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... crafty demon , that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debts ; that is , fetters them with " irons that enter into their souls . ” — Adventurer . XCII . How is this ! Alsippus saluted me to LACONICS . 19.
... crafty demon , that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debts ; that is , fetters them with " irons that enter into their souls . ” — Adventurer . XCII . How is this ! Alsippus saluted me to LACONICS . 19.
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... same that tick- ling is to the touch . - Swift . CVII . Shakspeare was the man who , of all modern and per- haps ancient poets , had the largest and most comprehen- sive soul . All the images of nature were still LACONICS . 23.
... same that tick- ling is to the touch . - Swift . CVII . Shakspeare was the man who , of all modern and per- haps ancient poets , had the largest and most comprehen- sive soul . All the images of nature were still LACONICS . 23.
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Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors John Timbs. sive soul . All the images of nature were still present to him , and he drew them not laboriously , but luckily ; when he describes any thing , you more than see it , you feel it too ...
Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors John Timbs. sive soul . All the images of nature were still present to him , and he drew them not laboriously , but luckily ; when he describes any thing , you more than see it , you feel it too ...
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... soul with the gayest hopes , or sink her into the deepest despair ; to depress the hero into a coward , or advance the coward into a hero . - Fitzosborne CXXXIII . People seek for what they call wit , on all subjects , and in all places ...
... soul with the gayest hopes , or sink her into the deepest despair ; to depress the hero into a coward , or advance the coward into a hero . - Fitzosborne CXXXIII . People seek for what they call wit , on all subjects , and in all places ...
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... soul , in the meekness of thy conversation ; condescend to men of low estate , support the distressed , and patronise the neglected . Be great ; but let it be in considering riches as they are , as talents committed to an earthen vessel ...
... soul , in the meekness of thy conversation ; condescend to men of low estate , support the distressed , and patronise the neglected . Be great ; but let it be in considering riches as they are , as talents committed to an earthen vessel ...
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