A new dictionary of quotations from the Greek, Latin, and modern languages, tr. by the author of 'Live and learn'.1859 |
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6. oldal
... wish for , by flying into a passion . England has shown - we trust , to the satisfaction of Europe assuredly to the approbation of her own con- science - how well we can keep our temper , under severe provocation ; but for the future ...
... wish for , by flying into a passion . England has shown - we trust , to the satisfaction of Europe assuredly to the approbation of her own con- science - how well we can keep our temper , under severe provocation ; but for the future ...
27. oldal
... wish whatever to do so . Anglice . Lat .- " In English , according to the English fashion . " Anguillam cauda tenes . Lat . prov .- " You hold an eel by the tail . " You are engaged with an active and slippery opponent . 66 Anguis in ...
... wish whatever to do so . Anglice . Lat .- " In English , according to the English fashion . " Anguillam cauda tenes . Lat . prov .- " You hold an eel by the tail . " You are engaged with an active and slippery opponent . 66 Anguis in ...
28. oldal
... wish for , desiderate , what it has missed , and loses it- self in the retrospective contemplation . " Most men have occasion to look back with regret on their lost opportunities . Compare SHAKSPERE : 66 There is a tide in the affairs ...
... wish for , desiderate , what it has missed , and loses it- self in the retrospective contemplation . " Most men have occasion to look back with regret on their lost opportunities . Compare SHAKSPERE : 66 There is a tide in the affairs ...
31. oldal
... wish to intimate that we give ourselves no trouble or concern about what will happen after our decease . Après perdre perd on bien . Fr. prov.- " After losing we often continue to lose . " Misfortunes seldom come alone . Απροσεκτων ...
... wish to intimate that we give ourselves no trouble or concern about what will happen after our decease . Après perdre perd on bien . Fr. prov.- " After losing we often continue to lose . " Misfortunes seldom come alone . Απροσεκτων ...
39. oldal
Greek. " The man , within the golden mean Who can his boldest wish restrain , Securely views the ruined cell Where sordid want and sorrow dwell , And , in himself serenely great , Declines an envied room of state . " Aureo hamo piscari ...
Greek. " The man , within the golden mean Who can his boldest wish restrain , Securely views the ruined cell Where sordid want and sorrow dwell , And , in himself serenely great , Declines an envied room of state . " Aureo hamo piscari ...
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A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages ... Greek Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2018 |
A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages ... Greek Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2015 |
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aetas ancient animus applied atque bien C'est called character CICERO CLAUDIAN Compare SHAKSPERE CORNELIUS NEPOS court death dicere everything evil expression facit fear feel folly fool fortune Fr.-The French genius give Greek happy homines homme honour HORACE HORACE.-"The human Ital JUVENAL king labour Latin Law maxim learned live LORD LUCAN LUCRETIUS magna mali manner matter means mihi mind motto Multa nature Nemo never Nihil nisi nulla omnes omnia one's OVID passion PERSIUS person PHAEDRUS philosopher phrase PLAUTUS pleasure poet potest prov proverb PUBLIUS SYRUS quae quam quid QUINTILIAN quod quotation rebus rerum risum ROCHEFOUCAULT Roman saepe SALLUST semper SENECA sense sibi signify sine soul speaking sunt TACITUS TERENCE term things thou tibi vice VIRGIL virtue vita wise word writ writing دو وو
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180. oldal - 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!
49. oldal - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
3. oldal - 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.
143. oldal - Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia neu se Impediat verbis lassas...
406. oldal - Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. Strenua nos exercet inertia : navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere. Quod petis hic est, Est Ulubris, animus si te non deficit aequus.
427. oldal - He hath put down the mighty from their seat : and hath exalted the humble and meek.
98. oldal - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
21. oldal - 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.
229. oldal - Je suis oiseau, voyez mes ailes— Je suis souris, vivent les rats!
116. oldal - 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.