Laconics: Or, the Best Works of the Best Authors, Volume 3C. Tilt, 1840 - Aphorisms and apothegms |
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... and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination . " - SWIFT . IN THREE VOLUMES . VOL . I. SEVENTH EDITION . LONDON : CHARLES TILT , FLEET STREET . MDCCCXL . PRINTED BY C. ADLARD , BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE . Laconics .
... and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination . " - SWIFT . IN THREE VOLUMES . VOL . I. SEVENTH EDITION . LONDON : CHARLES TILT , FLEET STREET . MDCCCXL . PRINTED BY C. ADLARD , BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE . Laconics .
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... Swift , I. QUOTATION , sir , is a good thing ; there is a community of mind in it : classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world . - Johnson . II . Two evils , ignorance and want of taste , have produced a third ...
... Swift , I. QUOTATION , sir , is a good thing ; there is a community of mind in it : classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world . - Johnson . II . Two evils , ignorance and want of taste , have produced a third ...
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... Swift . XVI . Pleasure of meat , drink , clothes , & c . , are forbidden those that know not how to use them ; just as nurses cry pah ! when they see a knife in a child's hand ; they will never say any thing to a man . - Selden . XVII ...
... Swift . XVI . Pleasure of meat , drink , clothes , & c . , are forbidden those that know not how to use them ; just as nurses cry pah ! when they see a knife in a child's hand ; they will never say any thing to a man . - Selden . XVII ...
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... Swift . XXVII . Nothing sinks a young man into low company , both of women and men , so surely as timidity and diffidence of himself . If he thinks that he shall not , he may depend upon it he will not please . But with proper ...
... Swift . XXVII . Nothing sinks a young man into low company , both of women and men , so surely as timidity and diffidence of himself . If he thinks that he shall not , he may depend upon it he will not please . But with proper ...
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... Swift . XL . How often at our theatre , has the tear of sympathy and burst of laughter been repressed by a malignant species of pride , refusing approbation to the author and actor , and renouncing society with the audience . - Smollet ...
... Swift . XL . How often at our theatre , has the tear of sympathy and burst of laughter been repressed by a malignant species of pride , refusing approbation to the author and actor , and renouncing society with the audience . - Smollet ...
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