A Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical Quotations, Comprising Idioms, Proverbs, Maxims, Mottoes, Technical Words and Terms, Press Allusions... from the Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese... with English Translations & Equivalents, Ed. with NotesHugh Percy Jones J. Grant, 1908 - 532 pages |
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Page 10
... beautiful , but anything like an adequate translation is hopeless . Animus non deficit æquus . Animus quod perdidit optat ,. Amor gignit amorem . Amor magnus doctor est . -St . Augustine . Amor patitur moras . Amor patriæ . Amor timere ...
... beautiful , but anything like an adequate translation is hopeless . Animus non deficit æquus . Animus quod perdidit optat ,. Amor gignit amorem . Amor magnus doctor est . -St . Augustine . Amor patitur moras . Amor patriæ . Amor timere ...
Page 29
... beautiful above , ends in the tail of a fish . ) A bad literary style presents similar incongruities . To unbend on occasion . Sicilian dainties will have no delightful flavour for the man over whose im- pious neck ever hangs the naked ...
... beautiful above , ends in the tail of a fish . ) A bad literary style presents similar incongruities . To unbend on occasion . Sicilian dainties will have no delightful flavour for the man over whose im- pious neck ever hangs the naked ...
Page 83
... beautiful if it is not also useful . ( Our confidence is everywhere mis- placed . ) We cannot trust a single person . He or she died . A thing said by the way . Concealing the truth in obscure terms . ( One obscure thing by something ...
... beautiful if it is not also useful . ( Our confidence is everywhere mis- placed . ) We cannot trust a single person . He or she died . A thing said by the way . Concealing the truth in obscure terms . ( One obscure thing by something ...
Page 147
... beautiful , often seems so to the eyes of love . ( Silence is a sufficient answer to the wise . ) Silence gives consent . ( Hegemony . ) The lead , the chief com- mand ; the sovereignty of one state over smaller states . My tongue has ...
... beautiful , often seems so to the eyes of love . ( Silence is a sufficient answer to the wise . ) Silence gives consent . ( Hegemony . ) The lead , the chief com- mand ; the sovereignty of one state over smaller states . My tongue has ...
Page 156
... beautiful woman conquers both fire and sword . ) Beauty is invincible . Victory comes now to this man , now to that . Respect the law , lest it cause thee trouble . Welcome is the best cheer . ( A sword wounds the body , but a sharp ...
... beautiful woman conquers both fire and sword . ) Beauty is invincible . Victory comes now to this man , now to that . Respect the law , lest it cause thee trouble . Welcome is the best cheer . ( A sword wounds the body , but a sharp ...
Common terms and phrases
amigo amor autres avoir better bien bird bonne Bruyère buen c'est casa Cicero cœur Dante death deux Dieu Dios être Euripides evil eyes faire fait faut femme Fontaine fool fortune give Goethe grand happy heart Heaven hombre homme honour Horace jamais jour king l'amour l'homme l'on La Rochefoucauld live Lope de Vega man's Menander mieux mind Molière monde mort Motto n'est never nihil omnia one's Ovid Perez peut poco prend Publius Syrus qu'il qu'on qu'un quæ quam quod rien Rochefoucauld Roman saying semper Simonides of Ceos Sophocles souvent speak style thee things thou Tirso de Molina tout truth vaut veut Victor Hugo virtue wise woman words ἂν γὰρ δὲ ἐκ ἐν καὶ μὲν μὴ οἱ οὐ οὐκ τὰ τε τὴν τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τῶν ὡς
Popular passages
Page 77 - 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.
Page 73 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Page 340 - ... tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
Page 370 - Ich sag es dir: ein Kerl, der spekuliert, Ist wie ein Tier, auf dürrer Heide Von einem bösen Geist im Kreis herumgeführt, Und rings umher liegt schöne grüne Weide.
Page 24 - 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.
Page 323 - He who fights, and runs away, May live to fight another day.
Page 383 - Was vernünftig ist, das ist wirklich; und was wirklich ist, das ist vernünftig.
Page 34 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 150 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
Page 159 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.