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He is born naked, and falls a whining at the first. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, mem. 3, subsect. 10) [Birth] Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him." - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, mem. 4, subsect. 6) [Beggary] Build castles in the air. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 1, subsect. 3) [Imagination] Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 2, subsec. 2) [Cookery] As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 2, subsect. 2) [Festivities] For idleness is an appendix to nobility. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 2, subsect. 6) [Idleness] And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsec. 12) [Misers] A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsec. 13) [Misers] A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsec. 6) [Shame] All our geese are swans. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. 14) [Swans] They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. 14) [Pride] Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn? - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. 2) [Example] I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people: they go commonly together. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. XIII) [Temptation] Aristotle said , , , melancholy men of all others are most witty. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. III, memb. 1, subsect. 3) [Wit] From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. [Lat., Hinc quam sit calamus saevior euse, patet.] - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. XXI, mem. 4, subsec. 4) [Pen] [Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sect. II, memb. 1, subsect. 3) [Childhood] 'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy face in it, brake it in pieces; but for that one he saw many more as bad in a moment. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sc. 3, mem. 7) [Contention] Go then merrily to Heaven. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. 3, memb. 1) [Merriment] So good things may be abused, and that which was first invented to refresh men's weary spirits. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. II, mem. 4) [Amusements] Many things happen between the cup and the lip. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. II, memb. 3) [Fate] Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog? - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. III, mem. 7) [Moon] Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. [Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outride the Devil.] - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. III, memb. 2) [Beggary] All places are distant from heaven alike. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. III, Memb. 4) [Heaven] They have cheveril consciences that will stretch. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. IV, memb. 2, subsect. 3) [Conscience] Put his shoulder to the wheel. - Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sect. I, memb. 2) [Action] Displaying page 4 of 6 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6
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