A new dictionary of quotations from the Greek, Latin, and modern languages, tr. by the author of 'Live and learn'.1859 |
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Strana 14
... Labour in vain . Africa semper aliquid novi offert . Lat . " Africa always offers to our notice something new ; of the interior we are in almost perfect ignor- ance . Africa may be said to possess a stronger attraction than most other ...
... Labour in vain . Africa semper aliquid novi offert . Lat . " Africa always offers to our notice something new ; of the interior we are in almost perfect ignor- ance . Africa may be said to possess a stronger attraction than most other ...
Strana 42
... pour le venir . Fr. prov .- " To have one's going for one's coming , " have one's journey in vain . To have nothing but one's labour for one's pains . Avoir le cœur haut et la fortune basse . Fr 42 A NEW DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS .
... pour le venir . Fr. prov .- " To have one's going for one's coming , " have one's journey in vain . To have nothing but one's labour for one's pains . Avoir le cœur haut et la fortune basse . Fr 42 A NEW DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS .
Strana 43
... galley - slaves or convicts are kept in chains , where galley - slaves or convicts are shut up after labour . Bahadoor . " A great person , a pompous fellow . " Bala pev , aλa poda . Gr .- " Short A NEW DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS . 43.
... galley - slaves or convicts are kept in chains , where galley - slaves or convicts are shut up after labour . Bahadoor . " A great person , a pompous fellow . " Bala pev , aλa poda . Gr .- " Short A NEW DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS . 43.
Strana 54
... labour , strive to be short , brief , concise [ in my style ] , but I become obscure . " An expression applied to authors , who , aiming at too great brevity , leave so much unexplained as to become obscure to their readers . Quintilian ...
... labour , strive to be short , brief , concise [ in my style ] , but I become obscure . " An expression applied to authors , who , aiming at too great brevity , leave so much unexplained as to become obscure to their readers . Quintilian ...
Strana 85
... labour , both labour in vain , and are disgracefully exposed to ridicule , are basely derided , are shamefully jeered at . " Consiliis nox apta ducum , lux aptior armis . Lat . RABIRIUS.— " Night is adapted , suitable , for the ...
... labour , both labour in vain , and are disgracefully exposed to ridicule , are basely derided , are shamefully jeered at . " Consiliis nox apta ducum , lux aptior armis . Lat . RABIRIUS.— " Night is adapted , suitable , for the ...
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aetas ancient animus applied atque bien C'est called character CICERO CLAUDIAN Compare SHAKSPERE CORNELIUS NEPOS court death dicere everything evil expression facit fear feel folly fool fortune Fr.-The French genius give Greek happy homines homme honour HORACE HORACE.-"The human Ital JUVENAL king labour Latin Law maxim learned live LORD LUCAN LUCRETIUS magna mali manner matter means mihi mind motto Multa nature Nemo never Nihil nisi nulla omnes omnia one's OVID passion PERSIUS person PHAEDRUS philosopher phrase PLAUTUS pleasure poet potest prov proverb PUBLIUS SYRUS quae quam quid QUINTILIAN quod quotation rebus rerum risum ROCHEFOUCAULT Roman saepe SALLUST semper SENECA sense sibi signify sine soul speaking sunt TACITUS TERENCE term things thou tibi vice VIRGIL virtue vita wise word writ writing دو وو
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Strana 180 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Strana 49 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Strana 3 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism.
Strana 143 - Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia neu se Impediat verbis lassas...
Strana 406 - Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. Strenua nos exercet inertia : navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere. Quod petis hic est, Est Ulubris, animus si te non deficit aequus.
Strana 427 - He hath put down the mighty from their seat : and hath exalted the humble and meek.
Strana 98 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Strana 21 - This is some fellow, Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and constrains the garb Quite from his nature : ,he cannot flatter, he ! — An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth ! An they will take it, so ; if not, he's plain.
Strana 229 - Je suis oiseau, voyez mes ailes— Je suis souris, vivent les rats!
Strana 116 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.