Ancient and Modern Familiar Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern LanguagesJ.B. Lippincott, 1875 - 527 pagine |
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Pagina 6
... one's will ; with a bad grace . ' " " A cuspide corona . Lat .- " A crown from the spear . " Honor ! earned by military exploits : in other words , by legally blowing one's fel- low - creatures ' brains out , or running them through ...
... one's will ; with a bad grace . ' " " A cuspide corona . Lat .- " A crown from the spear . " Honor ! earned by military exploits : in other words , by legally blowing one's fel- low - creatures ' brains out , or running them through ...
Pagina 7
... one's heart's content . " A haute voix . Fr .- " Loudly , openly . " A l'abri . Fr.- " Sheltered , under cover . " A l'aise marche à pied qui mène son cheval par la bride . Fr. prov .- " " Tis good to go on foot when a man hath a horse ...
... one's heart's content . " A haute voix . Fr .- " Loudly , openly . " A l'abri . Fr.- " Sheltered , under cover . " A l'aise marche à pied qui mène son cheval par la bride . Fr. prov .- " " Tis good to go on foot when a man hath a horse ...
Pagina 8
... one's own convenience . " A la mode . Fr .- " In fashion ; in the fashion ; fashionably . " A longue corde tire qui d'autrui mort désire . Fr. prov.- " He who is anxious for the death of another has a long rope to pull . " He that waits ...
... one's own convenience . " A la mode . Fr .- " In fashion ; in the fashion ; fashionably . " A longue corde tire qui d'autrui mort désire . Fr. prov.- " He who is anxious for the death of another has a long rope to pull . " He that waits ...
Pagina 9
... one's back ; in the rear . " A tort et à droit . Fr .- " Right or wrong . " A tort et à travers . Fr .- " At random ; without discretion ; with- out due consideration ; making a mull of a thing . " A tort ou à droit . Fr .- " Reason or ...
... one's back ; in the rear . " A tort et à droit . Fr .- " Right or wrong . " A tort et à travers . Fr .- " At random ; without discretion ; with- out due consideration ; making a mull of a thing . " A tort ou à droit . Fr .- " Reason or ...
Pagina 11
... one's mark . " Abietibus juvenes patriis et montibus aequi . Lat . VIRGIL.— Youths , of height and size 66 Like firs , that on their mother - mountain rise . " May be applied to the Life - guards and Grenadiers . Abnormis sapiens . Lat ...
... one's mark . " Abietibus juvenes patriis et montibus aequi . Lat . VIRGIL.— Youths , of height and size 66 Like firs , that on their mother - mountain rise . " May be applied to the Life - guards and Grenadiers . Abnormis sapiens . Lat ...
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amor ancient animus applied atque bien C'est called character CICERO CLAUDIAN CORNELIUS NEPOS court death dicere evil exemplum expression facit fear feel fool fortune Fr.-The French genius give Greek happy homines homme honor HORACE HORACE.-"The human Ital JUVENAL king labor Latin Law maxim learned live LORD LUCAN LUCRETIUS magna mali manner matter means ment mihi mind motto multa n'est nature nemo never nihil nisi nulla omnes omnia one's opinion OVID passion PERSIUS person PHAEDRUS philosopher phrase PLAUTUS pleasure poet potest prov proverb PUBLIUS SYRUS quae quam quid QUINTILIAN quod quotation rebus rerum risum Roman saepe Scots law semper SENECA sense sibi signify sine soul speak sunt TACITUS TERENCE term thing thou tibi truth vice VIRGIL virtue vita wise word writ writing
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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.