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For horses will do more for a whistle than for a whip, and by hearing their bells,
jingle away their weariness. Thomas Fuller. Nothing. He who takes hold of an eel
by the tail, and a woman at her word, may say he holds nothing. Italian Proverb.
For horses will do more for a whistle than for a whip, and by hearing their bells,
jingle away their weariness. Thomas Fuller. Nothing. He who takes hold of an eel
by the tail, and a woman at her word, may say he holds nothing. Italian Proverb.
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Italian Proverb. The Secret History of Books. If the secret history of books could
be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down
alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and
dull tales ...
Italian Proverb. The Secret History of Books. If the secret history of books could
be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down
alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and
dull tales ...
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Thackeray. Disappointments. To expect what never comes, to lie in bed and not
sleep, to serve well and not be advanced, are three things to die of. Italian
Proverb. National Impudence. Impudence in an Englishman is sullen and
insolent,.
Thackeray. Disappointments. To expect what never comes, to lie in bed and not
sleep, to serve well and not be advanced, are three things to die of. Italian
Proverb. National Impudence. Impudence in an Englishman is sullen and
insolent,.
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... the shoulders of a camel, and the legs of a deer. Italian Proverb. Laughter. One
should take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Addison. Qualifications of the Poet. He who, in an enlightened and TABLE TALK.
... the shoulders of a camel, and the legs of a deer. Italian Proverb. Laughter. One
should take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Addison. Qualifications of the Poet. He who, in an enlightened and TABLE TALK.
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Italian Proverb. Laughter. Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the
greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent
among our forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, was founded
...
Italian Proverb. Laughter. Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the
greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent
among our forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, was founded
...
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Página 76 - Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Página 50 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 90 - ... an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it.
Página 51 - It is to be regretted that the prose writings of Milton should, in our time, be so little read. As compositions, they deserve the attention of every man who wishes to become acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations ot Burke sink into insignificance.
Página 19 - But language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.
Página 34 - That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it. Dr. Johnson, all whose studies were desultory, and who hated, as he said, to read books through, made an exception in favour of the Pilgrim's Progress.
Página 90 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound...
Página 41 - There she is — the great engine — she never sleeps. She has her ambassadors in every quarter of the world, her couriers upon every road. Her officers march along with armies, and her envoys walk into statesmen's cabinets. They are ubiquitous. Yonder journal has an agent, at this minute, giving bribes at Madrid, and another inspecting the price of potatoes in Covent Garden.
Página 66 - Friendship is a vase which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once ; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again ; precious ones, never.
Página 35 - The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.