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 20
... sense to serve my turn in store , And he's a humbug who pretends to more : Care I whate'er those book - learn'd blockheads say ? Solon's the veriest fool - can one say nay ? " " Aliquis malo sit usus ab illo . Lat .- " Some use or ...
... sense to serve my turn in store , And he's a humbug who pretends to more : Care I whate'er those book - learn'd blockheads say ? Solon's the veriest fool - can one say nay ? " " Aliquis malo sit usus ab illo . Lat .- " Some use or ...
Strana 22
... sense seems to fix it there : but there occurs to me a still more plausible one ; the termination anth is so obviously the Gr . avoc [ anthos ] , flower , that I rather suspect the etymology to stand thus : - : - a , privative [ that is ...
... sense seems to fix it there : but there occurs to me a still more plausible one ; the termination anth is so obviously the Gr . avoc [ anthos ] , flower , that I rather suspect the etymology to stand thus : - : - a , privative [ that is ...
Strana 25
... sense different from its ordinary import , meaning ] is taken from the potter's wheel . The quot- ation is applied to those who , having promised a magnificent work , pro- duced in the end something inadequate , and perhaps contemptible ...
... sense different from its ordinary import , meaning ] is taken from the potter's wheel . The quot- ation is applied to those who , having promised a magnificent work , pro- duced in the end something inadequate , and perhaps contemptible ...
Strana 26
... sense Amor [ Love ] is an anagram of Roma [ Rome and evil of live : but metagrammatism implies a transposition of letters , which has be- come the popular sense of anagrammatism . A metagram , then , is the trans- position of the ...
... sense Amor [ Love ] is an anagram of Roma [ Rome and evil of live : but metagrammatism implies a transposition of letters , which has be- come the popular sense of anagrammatism . A metagram , then , is the trans- position of the ...
Strana 33
... sense as " argent comptant , " or " comptant . " 66 " C 99 Argent reçu le bras rompu . Fr. prov .- " Borrowed money that you cannot repay , but must work out , is well nigh having an arm broken . ” To work for a dead horse , or goose ...
... sense as " argent comptant , " or " comptant . " 66 " C 99 Argent reçu le bras rompu . Fr. prov .- " Borrowed money that you cannot repay , but must work out , is well nigh having an arm broken . ” To work for a dead horse , or goose ...
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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.