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 Word |
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... common French cuisine , without enjoying , as a great luxury , the natural flavor of beef , mutton , and pork , peas , beans , and potatoes , tasting of themselves , and not of one general clammy stock - pot . ' " " Alium silere quod ...
... common French cuisine , without enjoying , as a great luxury , the natural flavor of beef , mutton , and pork , peas , beans , and potatoes , tasting of themselves , and not of one general clammy stock - pot . ' " " Alium silere quod ...
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... common sewer , or an elephant from a fly , " that is , to make a mountain of a mole - hill . Αρχη ἡμισυ παντος . Gr . HESIOD .— “ The beginning is the half of the whole . " Of the tendency of this ancient saying , the best illustration ...
... common sewer , or an elephant from a fly , " that is , to make a mountain of a mole - hill . Αρχη ἡμισυ παντος . Gr . HESIOD .— “ The beginning is the half of the whole . " Of the tendency of this ancient saying , the best illustration ...
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... common life it is most prudent to steer a middle course . Arma tenenti omnia dat , qui justa negat . Lat . LUCAN.- " He who denies what is just grants every thing to those who have arms in their hands . " A successful combatant will not ...
... common life it is most prudent to steer a middle course . Arma tenenti omnia dat , qui justa negat . Lat . LUCAN.- " He who denies what is just grants every thing to those who have arms in their hands . " A successful combatant will not ...
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... common operations of life : it is prayer , invocation , blessing . Bisogna fa trottar la vecchia . Ital . prov .- " Need makes the old wife trot . " The French say , " Besoin fait vieille trotter , " which has the same meaning ...
... common operations of life : it is prayer , invocation , blessing . Bisogna fa trottar la vecchia . Ital . prov .- " Need makes the old wife trot . " The French say , " Besoin fait vieille trotter , " which has the same meaning ...
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... common participation of a cake of wheat or barley : " this ceremony , " says BLOUNT , " is still retained in part with us by that which we call the bride - cake , used at many wed- dings : " but whatever were the ingredients of the ...
... common participation of a cake of wheat or barley : " this ceremony , " says BLOUNT , " is still retained in part with us by that which we call the bride - cake , used at many wed- dings : " but whatever were the ingredients of the ...
Common terms and phrases
aetas amor ancient animus applied atque bien C'est called caprina 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 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
Popular passages
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 147 - Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia neu se Impediat verbis lassas...
Page 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!
Page 235 - Je suis oiseau, voyez mes ailes— Je suis souris, vivent les rats!
Page 227 - Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum : Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 201 - ... huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia fuit, ut natum ad id unum diceres quodcumque ageret...