Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors, Ancient and Modern ... |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
Laconics, Or Instructive Miscellanies: Selected from the Best Authors ... No preview available - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
actions affections appear authority bear beauty better body bring character consider conversation dark death delight depends desire divine earth equal eternal evil exercise fear feel flowers frequent give greatest hand happiness hear heart heaven honour hope hour human instruct joys keep kind knowledge labour laws least less light live look Lord lost man's manner matter means meet mind nature never observed once opinion ourselves pain pass passions peace perhaps person pleasure possess present reason Reflections religion rest riches rule sense short sleep soul sure sweet taken temper thee things thou thoughts thousand tion true truth turn vice virtue whole wisdom wise wish youth
Popular passages
Page 38 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw...
Page 127 - Autumn, — and sunshine arose on the way to the home of my fathers, that welcomed me back. I flew to the pleasant fields traversed...
Page 35 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 30 - Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Page 150 - I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, " impedimenta ; " for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit.
Page 31 - You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are : And yet, for aught I see, they are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing...
Page 153 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm.
Page 2 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Page 30 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 39 - That tinkle in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors, Ancient and Modern ... |
| Author | A general reader |
| Illustrated by | Alexander Anderson |
| Edition | reprint |
| Published | 1827 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Mar 19, 2008 |
| Length | 188 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |