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... kind , and devour a knave as big as himself ; he will swallow a fool a great deal bigger than himself ; and if he can but get his head within his jaws , will carry the rest of him hang- ing out at his mouth , until by degrees he has ...
... kind , and devour a knave as big as himself ; he will swallow a fool a great deal bigger than himself ; and if he can but get his head within his jaws , will carry the rest of him hang- ing out at his mouth , until by degrees he has ...
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... kind , he is to be denied all title or character in the other.- Shaftesbury . XXXVI . A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with , because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with ...
... kind , he is to be denied all title or character in the other.- Shaftesbury . XXXVI . A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with , because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with ...
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... kind of convulsion . People are never so much unguarded as when they are pleased ; and laughter being a visible symptom of some inward satisfac- tion , it is then , if ever , we may believe the face . There is , perhaps , no better ...
... kind of convulsion . People are never so much unguarded as when they are pleased ; and laughter being a visible symptom of some inward satisfac- tion , it is then , if ever , we may believe the face . There is , perhaps , no better ...
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... kind of half laugh , as such persons are never without some diffidence about them : but that of fools is the most honest , natural , open laugh in the world.— Steele . XLVIII . He who wants justice , and has wit , judgment , or va- lour ...
... kind of half laugh , as such persons are never without some diffidence about them : but that of fools is the most honest , natural , open laugh in the world.— Steele . XLVIII . He who wants justice , and has wit , judgment , or va- lour ...
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... kind have we been pestered with since the revolu- tion , to go no higher . - Steele . XCIII . Fade , flow'rs ! fade , nature will have it so " Tis what we must in our autumn do ! And as your leaves lie quiet on the ground , 24 LACONICS ,
... kind have we been pestered with since the revolu- tion , to go no higher . - Steele . XCIII . Fade , flow'rs ! fade , nature will have it so " Tis what we must in our autumn do ! And as your leaves lie quiet on the ground , 24 LACONICS ,
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Page 191 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 257 - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps death his court ; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp...
Page 233 - Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice; Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Page 207 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 257 - Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so — for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 246 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 264 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
Page 242 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 99 - And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other...
Page 121 - ... our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.