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 pagina's |
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Pagina 30
... become the popular sense of anagrammatism . A metagram , then , is the transposition of the letters in one or more words to form a new word , or new words . " Father Finardi , with great felicity , said of Magliabecchi , the celebrated ...
... become the popular sense of anagrammatism . A metagram , then , is the transposition of the letters in one or more words to form a new word , or new words . " Father Finardi , with great felicity , said of Magliabecchi , the celebrated ...
Pagina 32
... become of thy former wit and humor ? Thou shalt jest and be gay no more . " Animum nunc huc celerem , nunc dividit illuc . Lat . VIRGIL.- " This way and that he turns his anxious mind . " A picture of an active mind , always bent on ...
... become of thy former wit and humor ? Thou shalt jest and be gay no more . " Animum nunc huc celerem , nunc dividit illuc . Lat . VIRGIL.- " This way and that he turns his anxious mind . " A picture of an active mind , always bent on ...
Pagina 43
... become , that nothing is respected but wealth and its possessors . Aurum per medios ire satellites , Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius Ictu fulmineo . Lat . HORACE.- " Gold loves to make its way through the midst of guards and ...
... become , that nothing is respected but wealth and its possessors . Aurum per medios ire satellites , Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius Ictu fulmineo . Lat . HORACE.- " Gold loves to make its way through the midst of guards and ...
Pagina 58
... become obscure . " An expression applied to authors who , aiming at too great brevity , leave so much unexplained as to become obscure to their readers . Quintilian tells us that Nimium corripientes omnia sequitur obscuritas , that is ...
... become obscure . " An expression applied to authors who , aiming at too great brevity , leave so much unexplained as to become obscure to their readers . Quintilian tells us that Nimium corripientes omnia sequitur obscuritas , that is ...
Pagina 61
... become the object of universal ridicule and sarcasm , even in that age . An epigram describes this meek and lowly successor of the apostles as disdaining to associate with the ignoble inmates of heaven ; it ends thus : - ' On dit qu ...
... become the object of universal ridicule and sarcasm , even in that age . An epigram describes this meek and lowly successor of the apostles as disdaining to associate with the ignoble inmates of heaven ; it ends thus : - ' On dit qu ...
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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
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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.
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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...