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 11
... senses have left him . Absit invidia . Lat.- " All envy apart . " Without being supposed to speak invidiously , enviously . N.B. The full expression , which occurs in LIvy , is , " Absit verbo invidia , " that is , Take it not ill ...
... senses have left him . Absit invidia . Lat.- " All envy apart . " Without being supposed to speak invidiously , enviously . N.B. The full expression , which occurs in LIvy , is , " Absit verbo invidia , " that is , Take it not ill ...
Pagina 23
... senses , and besiege me round . " Aliena negotia curo , excussus propriis . Lat . HORACE .— “ I at- tend to other men's business , having none of my own to occupy me . " PUBLIUS SYRUS . — The quotation is used to mark an idle obtruder ...
... senses , and besiege me round . " Aliena negotia curo , excussus propriis . Lat . HORACE .— “ I at- tend to other men's business , having none of my own to occupy me . " PUBLIUS SYRUS . — The quotation is used to mark an idle obtruder ...
Pagina 24
... sense to serve my turn in store , And he's a humbug who pretends to more : Care I whate'er those book - learned 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 - learned blockheads say ? Solon's the veriest fool - can one say nay ? " " Aliquis malo sit usus ab illo . Lat . " Some use or ...
Pagina 26
... sense seems to fix it there : but there occurs to me a still more plausible one ; the termination anth is so obviously the Gr . avvos [ 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 . avvos [ anthos ] , flower , that I rather suspect the etymology to stand thus : - a , privative [ that is ...
Pagina 29
... sense different from its ordinary import , meaning ] is taken from the potter's wheel . The quotation is applied to those who , having promised a magnificent work , produced in the end something inadequate , and perhaps contemptible ...
... sense different from its ordinary import , meaning ] is taken from the potter's wheel . The quotation is applied to those who , having promised a magnificent work , produced in the end something inadequate , and perhaps contemptible ...
Parole e frasi comuni
aetas amor ancient animus applied atque bien C'est called character CICERO CLAUDIAN court death dicere EPICURUS 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 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 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...