The Banquet Book: A Classified Collection of Quotations Designed for General Reference, and Also as an Aid in the Preparation of the Toast List, the After-dinner Speech, and the Occasional Address; Together with Suggestions Concerning the Menu and Certain Other Details Connected with the Proper Ordering of the BanquetG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902 - 475 páginas |
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... may To do whate'er we For the pleasure of a friend , Is better far than drinking , Wishing riches without end . Albany , July , 1902 . Cupler Reynolds , hat . Bit 6-10-25 11950 INTRODUCTION ( 6 IT has John F. Montignani PG . PN.
... may To do whate'er we For the pleasure of a friend , Is better far than drinking , Wishing riches without end . Albany , July , 1902 . Cupler Reynolds , hat . Bit 6-10-25 11950 INTRODUCTION ( 6 IT has John F. Montignani PG . PN.
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... better for things to come than had the cork been allowed to remain cobwebbed to the bottle ; so for an equally long time it has been thought mete that a good book , like the good dinner , receive encouragement afore it . Some persons ...
... better for things to come than had the cork been allowed to remain cobwebbed to the bottle ; so for an equally long time it has been thought mete that a good book , like the good dinner , receive encouragement afore it . Some persons ...
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... better personal en- deavour . It takes him away from self so com- pletely , by reason of the brilliancy , that the mind assumes a status in a degree like that of the one who wrote ; as one lady at a feast will imbibe ideas to serve her ...
... better personal en- deavour . It takes him away from self so com- pletely , by reason of the brilliancy , that the mind assumes a status in a degree like that of the one who wrote ; as one lady at a feast will imbibe ideas to serve her ...
Página vii
... better than some other , only let it be a fancy born of sound reason . Who has not found it so , that the cookie ab- stracted from the pantry by the youth is far sweeter than any bought by affluence , and a com- piler must stand in the ...
... better than some other , only let it be a fancy born of sound reason . Who has not found it so , that the cookie ab- stracted from the pantry by the youth is far sweeter than any bought by affluence , and a com- piler must stand in the ...
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... better pipe at the play - house . Surely the stars are images of love . FOOTE , The Cozeners . BAILEY , Festus . Garden scene . A fellow of no mark , or livelihood . King Henry IV . Pt . I , iii , 2 . He coude songes make , and wel ...
... better pipe at the play - house . Surely the stars are images of love . FOOTE , The Cozeners . BAILEY , Festus . Garden scene . A fellow of no mark , or livelihood . King Henry IV . Pt . I , iii , 2 . He coude songes make , and wel ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ambition ANON Antony and Cleopatra BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER beauty BEN JONSON better BYRON Canto CHESTERFIELD Childe Harold COLTON contents are equivalent COWPER dessertspoons Dream drink DRYDEN ELIOT EMERSON Epistolæ Essay fool friends friendship gallon GOLDSMITH Hamlet hath heart heaven Henry VI Here's hogshead honour hope HORACE HUBBARD jigger John JONSON Julius Cæsar King Henry IV King Henry VIII King Richard King Richard III kiss Lacon Lady learning lemon live LONGFELLOW Lord Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth Merchant of Venice Merry Wives MILTON mind Nature never Night Thoughts Othello Paradise Lost Philistine pint POPE Pope's trans quart ROCHEFOUCAULD Romeo and Juliet Saying Shrew Song soul Speech sweet SWIFT tablespoons Taming TENNYSON thee things Thomas THOREAU thou Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night virtue wine wise Wives of Windsor woman WORDSWORTH young youth
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Página 322 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Página 318 - I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon; To whom the better elements And kindly stars have given A form so fair, that, like the air, Tis less of earth than heaven.
Página 154 - Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears; while the used key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says.
Página 357 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 319 - I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold!
Página 273 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Página 327 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Página 327 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Página 163 - If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost ; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Página 153 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's...