A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages: Translated Into English, and Occasionally Accompanied with Illustrations, Historical Poetical, and Anecdotal, with an Extensive Index, Referring to Every Important WordJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1869 - 528 pagine |
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Pagina 16
... ancient Rome ] adjudged to their creditors , to be committed to prison , or otherwise secured , until satisfaction was made . Soldiers , how- ever , were also called “ addicti , ” in allusion to the military oath , which they took when ...
... ancient Rome ] adjudged to their creditors , to be committed to prison , or otherwise secured , until satisfaction was made . Soldiers , how- ever , were also called “ addicti , ” in allusion to the military oath , which they took when ...
Pagina 24
... ancient division of Russia , which comprehended the provinces of Great or Black Russia , Little or Red Russia , and White Russia . St. Petersburg , the capital of Russia , took its name from having been built by PETER THE GREAT . Allah ...
... ancient division of Russia , which comprehended the provinces of Great or Black Russia , Little or Red Russia , and White Russia . St. Petersburg , the capital of Russia , took its name from having been built by PETER THE GREAT . Allah ...
Pagina 29
... ancients , for the better preservation of their manuscripts , rubbed them with oil of cedar and kept them in cases of cypress . An nescis longas regibus esse manus ? Lat . OVID .- " Do you not know that kings have long hands ? " " It ...
... ancients , for the better preservation of their manuscripts , rubbed them with oil of cedar and kept them in cases of cypress . An nescis longas regibus esse manus ? Lat . OVID .- " Do you not know that kings have long hands ? " " It ...
Pagina 31
... ancient Latin writers . 66 Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus . Lat . CICERO . - " Cultivation is as necessary to the mind , as food is to the body . " Animo et facto . Lat .- " Verily and indeed , really and truly . " Animo ...
... ancient Latin writers . 66 Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus . Lat . CICERO . - " Cultivation is as necessary to the mind , as food is to the body . " Animo et facto . Lat .- " Verily and indeed , really and truly . " Animo ...
Pagina 36
... ancient Greece , of Arcadia , the Switzerland of Greece ; men who were passionately fond of music , and who cultivated it with success ] ; and both equally skilled in the opening song and in the response . " The poet speaks of two ...
... ancient Greece , of Arcadia , the Switzerland of Greece ; men who were passionately fond of music , and who cultivated it with success ] ; and both equally skilled in the opening song and in the response . " The poet speaks of two ...
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 phrase PLAUTUS pleasure poet present prov quae quam quid quod reason Roman SENECA sense signify sometimes speak TERENCE term thing thou true truth vice VIRGIL virtue whole wise wish writing
Brani popolari
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 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 201 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Pagina 147 - Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia neu se Impediat verbis lassas...
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 235 - Je suis oiseau, voyez mes ailes— Je suis souris, vivent les rats!
Pagina 227 - Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum : Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora.
Pagina 437 - Spiritus intus alit: totamque infusa per artus ' Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet ' Inde hominum pecudumque genus vitaeque volantum ' Et quae marmoreo fert monstra sub aequore pontus.
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 201 - ... huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia fuit, ut natum ad id unum diceres quodcumque ageret...