Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Tom 1T. Boys, 1826 - 360 |
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... fame , there are many would thank them for the bill . - Sheridan . LXXI . It is a great mortification to the vanity of man , that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions , either for beauty or ...
... fame , there are many would thank them for the bill . - Sheridan . LXXI . It is a great mortification to the vanity of man , that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions , either for beauty or ...
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... fame , and shuts the gate of envy after it , it unlooses the chain of the captive , and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hands.- Sterne . CXCIII . It is taken for granted that , on every publication , there is at least a ...
... fame , and shuts the gate of envy after it , it unlooses the chain of the captive , and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hands.- Sterne . CXCIII . It is taken for granted that , on every publication , there is at least a ...
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... Fame is soon found to be a sound , and love a dream . Avarice and ambition may be justly suspected of being privy confederacies with idleness ; for when they have , for a while , protected their votaries , they often deliver them up ...
... Fame is soon found to be a sound , and love a dream . Avarice and ambition may be justly suspected of being privy confederacies with idleness ; for when they have , for a while , protected their votaries , they often deliver them up ...
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... if we do not retreat from it , we shall advance in it ; and the further on we go , the more we have to come back . - Barrow . CCLXXXVIII . Men should press forward in fame's glorious chase LACONICS . 59 CCLXXXIV. ...
... if we do not retreat from it , we shall advance in it ; and the further on we go , the more we have to come back . - Barrow . CCLXXXVIII . Men should press forward in fame's glorious chase LACONICS . 59 CCLXXXIV. ...
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... fame's glorious chase , Nobles look backward , and so lose the race . CCLXXXIX . Young . Every one must see and feel , that bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions ; and that if the latter only are for- bidden , and the former left ...
... fame's glorious chase , Nobles look backward , and so lose the race . CCLXXXIX . Young . Every one must see and feel , that bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions ; and that if the latter only are for- bidden , and the former left ...
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Apicius bagnio beauty Ben Jonson better body Bruyere Butler Chesterfield Churchill Codrus common conversation death delight dicebox doth dress enemy Epictetus Euripides evil eyes false fame fancy fear folly fools fortune friends genius gentleman give greatest happiness hath heart honest honour Hudibras human humour ignorance inns of court judgment keep kind knave laugh learning less live look Lord Bacon LUDGATE HILL man's mankind manner marriage Massinger matter merit mind Montaigne nature neral never numbers observed opinion pain pass passion pedants person philosopher pleasure Plutarch poet poor praise pride proud racters reason rich ridiculous Roman triumph satire seldom sense Shaftesbury Shakspeare Shenstone soul speak stand sure Swift talk tell thing thou thought tion true truth turn vanity vice virtue whilst whole wise words write young