Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Том 1T. Boys, 1826 - Всего страниц: 360 |
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... play well : so there are some that are good in canvasses and factions , that are otherwise 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 ...
... play well : so there are some that are good in canvasses and factions , that are otherwise 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 ...
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... plays with and dandles some insignificant pup- pet , without any end in view . " Thus , a tune , a proverb , a scrap of poetry , or some other trivial object , will steal into the thoughts , and continue to possess them long after it ...
... plays with and dandles some insignificant pup- pet , without any end in view . " Thus , a tune , a proverb , a scrap of poetry , or some other trivial object , will steal into the thoughts , and continue to possess them long after it ...
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... play - houses , a catalogue of the reigning beauties , and you strike him dumb . The military pedant always talks in a camp , and in storming towns , making lodgements , and fighting battles from one end of the year to the other . Every ...
... play - houses , a catalogue of the reigning beauties , and you strike him dumb . The military pedant always talks in a camp , and in storming towns , making lodgements , and fighting battles from one end of the year to the other . Every ...
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... . CLXXII . The great art of life is to play for much , and stake little . - Johnson . · CLXXIII As almost every character which has excited either LACONICS . 35 the utmost subtlety of imagination would not discover any ...
... . CLXXII . The great art of life is to play for much , and stake little . - Johnson . · CLXXIII As almost every character which has excited either LACONICS . 35 the utmost subtlety of imagination would not discover any ...
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... plays ; the reason is , that the writer puts himself in the place of every person that speaks .-- Shenstone , CCVIII . Argira pulls off her glove to show her white hand , and never forgets to let her little shoe be seen , that she may ...
... plays ; the reason is , that the writer puts himself in the place of every person that speaks .-- Shenstone , CCVIII . Argira pulls off her glove to show her white hand , and never forgets to let her little shoe be seen , that she may ...
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