Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 2C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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Page 42
... sleeps are not able to repay her mid- night watchings . I have known a woman carried off half dead from Bassette , and have many a time grieved to see a person of quality gliding by me in her chair at two o'clock in the morning , and ...
... sleeps are not able to repay her mid- night watchings . I have known a woman carried off half dead from Bassette , and have many a time grieved to see a person of quality gliding by me in her chair at two o'clock in the morning , and ...
Page 98
... Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces , And yet so humble too , as not to scorn The meanest country cottages : " His poppy grows among the corn . " The halcyon sleep will never build his nest In any stormy breast . ' Tis not ...
... Sleep is a god too proud to wait in palaces , And yet so humble too , as not to scorn The meanest country cottages : " His poppy grows among the corn . " The halcyon sleep will never build his nest In any stormy breast . ' Tis not ...
Page 115
... sleep would have bound both parties to the peace , and made them as good friends as ever before . - Fuller . CCCCLIII . Among the rest she thought of jealousy , Time left untouch'd to grace antiquity , She was decipher'd by a tim'rous ...
... sleep would have bound both parties to the peace , and made them as good friends as ever before . - Fuller . CCCCLIII . Among the rest she thought of jealousy , Time left untouch'd to grace antiquity , She was decipher'd by a tim'rous ...
Page 140
... sleep without dreaming , it is well that painful dreams are avoided . If , while we sleep , we can have any pleasing dreams , it is , as the French say , tant gagné , so much added to the pleasure of life . - Franklin . DLII . Those who ...
... sleep without dreaming , it is well that painful dreams are avoided . If , while we sleep , we can have any pleasing dreams , it is , as the French say , tant gagné , so much added to the pleasure of life . - Franklin . DLII . Those who ...
Page 150
... sleeps , and life's poor play is o'er . DXCII . age : Pope . Knighthood is a very frugal method of recompensing the most important services ; and it is very fortunate for kings that their subjects are satisfied with such trifling re ...
... sleeps , and life's poor play is o'er . DXCII . age : Pope . Knighthood is a very frugal method of recompensing the most important services ; and it is very fortunate for kings that their subjects are satisfied with such trifling re ...
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