A dictionary of daily blunders, by the author of 'A handy book of synonyms'. [With] A handy book of common English synonyms [and] A handy classical dictionary. [3 pt. Issued together in a publisher's casing with the general title Handbook for writers and readers]. |
Common terms and phrases
according Achilles affliction afterwards Alcmena alludes amongst ancient Antony Apollo army ascended assassinated Athenians Athens Augustus banished battle battle of Actium beauty became blunder Boeotia born brother Brutus called calm Calydonian boar celebrated Roman chariot Christian Clytemnestra Colchis confounded conquered consul correct corrupt daughter of Jupiter death defeated deity destroy died A.D. distinguished emperor enamoured famous father fleet fretful gave goddess gods Greece Greeks head Hercules Hesiod honour incite infernal regions irritate Jason Julius Cæsar Juno Jupiter killed lived Lord Byron Macedonia married Masinissa means Minerva mistake monster mother Muses Neptune nounced nymph obtained Oceanides philosopher Phocis plural poet Polydectes Pompey Priam Procne pronounced Ptolemy reign rendered retired Rome Saturn sentence singular sometimes wrongly spelled subs supposed surnamed syllable temple Thebes Theseus Thessaly throne tion tragedy Trojan Trojan war Troy Ulysses valour Venus victory whilst wife word writing wrong wrote Xerxes
Popular passages
Page 52 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations; - all were his! He counted them at break of day And when the sun set where were they?
Page 105 - He that fights and runs away May turn and fight another day ; But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again.
Page 116 - Ye shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of Power to rest ; Where man can boast that he has trod On him, that was
Page 97 - And long accustom'd bondage uncreate? Not such thy sons who whilome did await, The hopeless warriors of a willing doom, In bleak Thermopylae's sepulchral strait— Oh ! who that gallant spirit shall resume, Leap from Eurotas' banks, and call thee from the tomb?
Page 47 - Or, turning to the Vatican, go see LaocoOn's torture dignifying pain— A father's love and mortal's agony With an immortal's patience blending...
Page 89 - The very spot where Sappho sung Her swan-like music, ere she sprung (Still holding, in that fearful leap, By her loved lyre,) into the deep, And dying quench'd the fatal fire, At once, of both her heart and lyre.
Page 8 - Romans elected him dictator, and he forgot their ingratitude, and marched to the relief of his country, which he delivered, after it had been for some time in the possession of the enemy. He died in the...
Page 43 - Janus received him with much hospitality, and made him his colleague on the throne. Janus is represented with two faces, because he was acquainted with the past and the future ; or, according to others, because he was taken for the sun who opens the day at his rising, and shuts it at his setting.
Page 35 - Lo, I will stand at thy right hand, And keep the bridge with thee.
Page 6 - Phoenicia by Telephassa or Agriope, was ordered by his father to go in quest of his sister Europa, whom Jupiter had carried away, and he was never to return to Phoenicia if he did not bring her back. As...