A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern LanguagesJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1869 - 527 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... pleasure , the student and the superficial reader , the busy and the idle . Every one who takes any share in conversation , or who dips , however cur- sorily , into any newspaper or other publication , will every now and then find the ...
... pleasure , the student and the superficial reader , the busy and the idle . Every one who takes any share in conversation , or who dips , however cur- sorily , into any newspaper or other publication , will every now and then find the ...
Pagina 15
... pleasure , at pleasure . " In music it is used to signify those ornamental graces which are left to the taste of the performer . The same Ad nauseam . Lat .- " Enough to make one sick . ” — “ ideas re - appear ad nauseam , " that is ...
... pleasure , at pleasure . " In music it is used to signify those ornamental graces which are left to the taste of the performer . The same Ad nauseam . Lat .- " Enough to make one sick . ” — “ ideas re - appear ad nauseam , " that is ...
Pagina 37
... pleasure , like soft clay . " This is one of the numerous apophthegms which insist on the advantage of early impressions . Argumentum a particulari ad universale . Lat .- " An argument that attempts to show from a single instance that ...
... pleasure , like soft clay . " This is one of the numerous apophthegms which insist on the advantage of early impressions . Argumentum a particulari ad universale . Lat .- " An argument that attempts to show from a single instance that ...
Pagina 47
... pleasure arising from the perusal of the very bagatelles [ literary trifles , light compositions ] of men renowned for their knowledge and genius . " Bagne . Fr. - A place where galley - slaves or convicts are kept in chains , where ...
... pleasure arising from the perusal of the very bagatelles [ literary trifles , light compositions ] of men renowned for their knowledge and genius . " Bagne . Fr. - A place where galley - slaves or convicts are kept in chains , where ...
Pagina 63
... pleasure . " This was anciently the form of a regal ordinance , under the Norman line . It is now happily used only in an ironical sense to mark some act of despotic uthority . Caravan . Persian . - Merchants traveling together in ...
... pleasure . " This was anciently the form of a regal ordinance , under the Norman line . It is now happily used only in an ironical sense to mark some act of despotic uthority . Caravan . Persian . - Merchants traveling together in ...
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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 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 SHAKSPEARE sibi signify sine soul Span speak sunt TACITUS TERENCE term thing thou tibi truth vice VIRGIL virtue vita wise word writ writing
Populaire passages
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 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 131 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Pagina 147 - Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia neu se Impediat verbis lassas...
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 327 - O Thou whose power o'er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine. Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast, With silent confidence and holy rest : From thee, great God ! we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end...
Pagina 160 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Pagina 7 - 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.