Ancient and Modern Familiar Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern LanguagesJ.B. Lippincott, 1875 - 527 pagine |
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Pagina 64
... Italy ; it is applied by analogy to the extreme parti- sans of pure democracy , an ultra - democrat . The plural is carbonari . N.B. In the wooded districts of the Abruzzi , a secluded and romantic region of Italy , the manufacture of ...
... Italy ; it is applied by analogy to the extreme parti- sans of pure democracy , an ultra - democrat . The plural is carbonari . N.B. In the wooded districts of the Abruzzi , a secluded and romantic region of Italy , the manufacture of ...
Pagina 152
... Italy and Sicily . In the one nearest to Italy was a cave , in which dwelt SCYLLA , a daughter of CRATAEIS , a fearful monster , barking like a dog , with twelve feet , and six long necks and heads , each of which contained three rows ...
... Italy and Sicily . In the one nearest to Italy was a cave , in which dwelt SCYLLA , a daughter of CRATAEIS , a fearful monster , barking like a dog , with twelve feet , and six long necks and heads , each of which contained three rows ...
Pagina 176
... Italy , in the mean time , has not been safe from the gens inimica sibi [ AUSTRIA ] . " Gens togata . Lat . VIRGIL .- " The gowned nation , " that is , the Roman nation . See Jus togae . " .. Gent libérale . Fr .- " Persons of liberal ...
... Italy , in the mean time , has not been safe from the gens inimica sibi [ AUSTRIA ] . " Gens togata . Lat . VIRGIL .- " The gowned nation , " that is , the Roman nation . See Jus togae . " .. Gent libérale . Fr .- " Persons of liberal ...
Pagina 203
... Italy , is more known by the circumstances related of his death than by any thing now remaining of him . The story is , that he was waylaid by thieves , who murdered him ; and that , in dying , he remarked some cranes flying overhead ...
... Italy , is more known by the circumstances related of his death than by any thing now remaining of him . The story is , that he was waylaid by thieves , who murdered him ; and that , in dying , he remarked some cranes flying overhead ...
Pagina 235
... Italy : ] a regular vocabulary was published at Barcelona in 1609. The " fancy " Spaniards honor the author as their DR . JOHNSON , and his dictionary has gone through many editions . It is very useful to the reader of QUEVEDO . A ...
... Italy : ] a regular vocabulary was published at Barcelona in 1609. The " fancy " Spaniards honor the author as their DR . JOHNSON , and his dictionary has gone through many editions . It is very useful to the reader of QUEVEDO . A ...
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Parole e frasi comuni
affect ancient appear applied bear become better body called cause character comes common Compare court danger death equal existence expression fear feel follow fortune French frequently give given Greek hand happy head heart honor hope HORACE human Ital Italy judge kind king labor land learned live look LORD manner matter maxim means mind nature never object once one's opinion original OVID pass PERSIUS person philosopher phrase PLAUTUS pleasure poet present prov quae quam quid quod reason Roman sense signify sometimes speak TERENCE term thing thou true truth vice VIRGIL virtue whole wise wish writing
Brani popolari
Pagina 25 - 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.
Pagina 53 - 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.
Pagina 184 - 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!
Pagina 303 - Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...
Pagina 162 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Pagina 120 - 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.
Pagina 235 - Je suis oiseau, voyez mes ailes— Je suis souris, vivent les rats!
Pagina 32 - The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Pagina 260 - YE are to take care that this child be brought to the bishop, to be confirmed by him, so soon as he can say the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments, in the vulgar tongue, and be further instructed in the Church Catechism set forth for that purpose.
Pagina 432 - — the latter four times repeated. Bathyllus owned himself unable to fill them out; and Virgil proved himself the author by completing them as follows : — " Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores : Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves ; Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves ; Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes ; Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves.