Latin proverbs and quotations: With translations and parallel passages and a copious English indexS. Low, son, and Marston, 1869 - 505 pagina's |
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Pagina 25
... catch flies . " The eagle suffers little birds to sing , And is not careful what they mean thereby . " SHAKS . Aquilam volare , delphīnum natāre doces . — Teach an eagle to fly , a dolphin to swim . " Teach your grandame to suck eggs ...
... catch flies . " The eagle suffers little birds to sing , And is not careful what they mean thereby . " SHAKS . Aquilam volare , delphīnum natāre doces . — Teach an eagle to fly , a dolphin to swim . " Teach your grandame to suck eggs ...
Pagina 36
... catch . " Beati monoculi in regione cæcorum . - Happy are one - eyed men in the country of the blind . " A triton among minnows . " " In Blindman's land your one - eyed man's a god . " " A giant among the pigmies . " Beatus ille qui ...
... catch . " Beati monoculi in regione cæcorum . - Happy are one - eyed men in the country of the blind . " A triton among minnows . " " In Blindman's land your one - eyed man's a god . " " A giant among the pigmies . " Beatus ille qui ...
Pagina 43
... catch a hare with a tabret . " Obscurus fio . Brevis esse laboro , HOR . In trying to be concise I become obscure . Brevis est magni fortūna favōris . - The favour of the great is not lasting . " O how wretched Is that poor man that ...
... catch a hare with a tabret . " Obscurus fio . Brevis esse laboro , HOR . In trying to be concise I become obscure . Brevis est magni fortūna favōris . - The favour of the great is not lasting . " O how wretched Is that poor man that ...
Pagina 46
... catch the hare ! Cancros lepori compăras . - You compare the tortoise to the hare . Candida pax homines , trux decet ira feras . OVID . - Honour- able peace becomes men , fierce anger should belong to beasts . Candor dat viribus alas ...
... catch the hare ! Cancros lepori compăras . - You compare the tortoise to the hare . Candida pax homines , trux decet ira feras . OVID . - Honour- able peace becomes men , fierce anger should belong to beasts . Candor dat viribus alas ...
Pagina 48
... catch we are caught . Subtlety set a trap and caught itself . " " Dissemblers oftener deceive themselves than others . " " Trickery comes back to its master . " See " Neque enim . ” " Qui capit . " Captivum impunè lacessunt . - A ...
... catch we are caught . Subtlety set a trap and caught itself . " " Dissemblers oftener deceive themselves than others . " " Trickery comes back to its master . " See " Neque enim . ” " Qui capit . " Captivum impunè lacessunt . - A ...
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Latin proverbs and quotations: With translations and parallel passages and a ... Alfred Henderson Volledige weergave - 1869 |
Latin proverbs and quotations: With translations and parallel passages and a ... Alfred Henderson Volledige weergave - 1869 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 184 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Pagina 42 - 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.
Pagina 447 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Pagina 267 - The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it.
Pagina 389 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Pagina 95 - What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe, Effeminately vanquished?
Pagina 91 - GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but...
Pagina 103 - Nomentanus?" pergis pugnantia secum frontibus adversis componere. non ego avarum cum veto te fieri, vappam iubeo ac nebulonem. est inter Tanain quiddam socerumque Viselli : 105 est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines, quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum.
Pagina 60 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Pagina 441 - Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw: Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sigh'd and said amang them a'; — "Ye are na Mary Morison!