Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 2C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... beauty , instead of those preposterous fashions , and fantastical draperies , of dress , which , while they conceal some few defects of person , expose so many defects of mind , and sacrifice to ostentatious finery , all those mild ...
... beauty , instead of those preposterous fashions , and fantastical draperies , of dress , which , while they conceal some few defects of person , expose so many defects of mind , and sacrifice to ostentatious finery , all those mild ...
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... beauty two winters together . - Guardian . CLXIX . If husbandmen preserve not the innocence of rural life , they are much to blame , for no men are so free from the temptations of iniquity . They live by what they can get by industry ...
... beauty two winters together . - Guardian . CLXIX . If husbandmen preserve not the innocence of rural life , they are much to blame , for no men are so free from the temptations of iniquity . They live by what they can get by industry ...
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... Beauty's grace , that should rise Like to the naked morn . Lilies on the river's side , And fair Cyprian flow'rs newly blown , Ask no beauties but their own . Ornament is nurse of pride . From England's Helicon . CLXXXVI . Idlers cannot ...
... Beauty's grace , that should rise Like to the naked morn . Lilies on the river's side , And fair Cyprian flow'rs newly blown , Ask no beauties but their own . Ornament is nurse of pride . From England's Helicon . CLXXXVI . Idlers cannot ...
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... Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good , A shining gloss that fadeth suddenly ; A flower that dies , when first it ' gins to bud ; A brittle glass , that's broken presently : A doubtful good , a gloss , a glass , a flower , Lost , faded ...
... Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good , A shining gloss that fadeth suddenly ; A flower that dies , when first it ' gins to bud ; A brittle glass , that's broken presently : A doubtful good , a gloss , a glass , a flower , Lost , faded ...
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... . Pope . As the laws are above magistrates , so are the magis- trates above the people : and it may truly be said , that the magistrate is a speaking law , and the law F 2 LACONICS . 51 So beauty blemish'd once, for ever's lost, ...
... . Pope . As the laws are above magistrates , so are the magis- trates above the people : and it may truly be said , that the magistrate is a speaking law , and the law F 2 LACONICS . 51 So beauty blemish'd once, for ever's lost, ...
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Addison admire Bacon beauty Ben Jonson better body Butler common Confucius Congreve conversation Cynthia's Revels death delight doth drink Dryden excellent eyes fair fame fear fellow folly fool fortune friends genius give Godfrey Kneller gold Goldsmith gout grace happiness hath hear heart heaven hobby-horse honour Hudibras human humour idle Jonson keep kind king labour laugh learning live look looking-glass Lord Bacon Lord Bolingbroke lover man's mankind marriage Massinger men's mind mirth nature never o'er observed Ovid pains passions person play pleased pleasure Plutarch poet poison'd poor Pope praise pride reason rich seldom sense Shakspeare Shenstone sleep sometimes soul speak sweet taste tell temper thee thing thou art thought tion tongue true truth turn vex'd virtue wealth whole wisdom wise woman words write youth