Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 2C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... Pope . XXVIII . Haste and rashnesse are storms and tempests , break- ing and wrecking businesse , but nimblenesse is a full , fair wind , blowing it with speed to the haven . - Fuller XXIX . Human nature is not so much depraved as to ...
... Pope . XXVIII . Haste and rashnesse are storms and tempests , break- ing and wrecking businesse , but nimblenesse is a full , fair wind , blowing it with speed to the haven . - Fuller XXIX . Human nature is not so much depraved as to ...
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... Pope . XL . Music so softens and disarms the mind , That not an arrow does resistance find , Thus the fair tyrant celebrates the prize , And acts herself the triumph of her eyes So Nero once , with harp in hand , survey'd His flaming ...
... Pope . XL . Music so softens and disarms the mind , That not an arrow does resistance find , Thus the fair tyrant celebrates the prize , And acts herself the triumph of her eyes So Nero once , with harp in hand , survey'd His flaming ...
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... Pope , LXXIII . Freeman . Pray inform me what can be worse than what I beheld yesterday ? Can any thing be more pro- voking , than for a man to insult his wife after that merciless rate ; or more odious , than for a woman to expose her ...
... Pope , LXXIII . Freeman . Pray inform me what can be worse than what I beheld yesterday ? Can any thing be more pro- voking , than for a man to insult his wife after that merciless rate ; or more odious , than for a woman to expose her ...
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... Pope . XCVIII . Orators and stage coachmen , when the one wants ar- guments and the other a coat of arms , adorn their cause and their coaches with rhetoric and flowerpots . - Shen- stone . XCIX . Looks kill love , and love by looks ...
... Pope . XCVIII . Orators and stage coachmen , when the one wants ar- guments and the other a coat of arms , adorn their cause and their coaches with rhetoric and flowerpots . - Shen- stone . XCIX . Looks kill love , and love by looks ...
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... Pope . False friendship , like the ivy , decays and ruins the walls it embraces ; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports . - Burton . CXXXV . There are severa . persons who in some certain periods of ...
... Pope . False friendship , like the ivy , decays and ruins the walls it embraces ; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports . - Burton . CXXXV . There are severa . persons who in some certain periods of ...
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