| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...dear old friend.' There is one passage in the original, better transfused by Oldham than by Johnson : 'Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit ^ which is an exquisite remark on the galling meanness and contempt annexed to poverty: JOHNSON'S imitation... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 484 pages
...bear, reads — the poor man's contumely ; the contumely which the potman is obliged to endure : " Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, " Quam quod ridiculos homines facit." Malont. 7 — — of despis'd love,'] The folio reads — of dispriz'd love. Steevens. '— — might... | |
| Pietro Metastasio - 1814 - 542 pages
...alter Pelle patet ; vel si consuto vulnere crassum , Atque recens li nuin.. ostendit non una cicatrix I Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in, se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit. Exeat , ìr iti pudor est , et de pulvino surgat equestri , Cnìus res legi non sufficit , et sedeant... | |
| Jeremy Taylor - Sermons, English - 1816 - 526 pages
...therefore Plutarch said well, qui generose et re~ gio more instituuntur, primum tacere, deinde loaui discunt ; to be taught first to be silent, then to...well and handsomely, is education fit for a prince ; and that is St. Paul's method here : first we were taught how to restrain our tongues in the foregoing... | |
| Charles Phillips - 1818 - 356 pages
...Phantasmagoria? After expatiatirig upon the sad effects of poverty, you may remember he pathetically remarks— " Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit " Lord Avonmore bristled up at once — " Why, Mr, Curran, Hesiod was not in historian, he was a poet,... | |
| Juvenal - Verse satire, Latin - 1819 - 156 pages
...alter Pelle patet ; vel si, consuto vulnere, crassum ISO Atque recens linum ostendit non una cicatrix? Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit. Exeat, inquit, Si pudor est, et de pulvino surgat equestri, Cujus res legi non sufficit; et sedeant... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 368 pages
..." — — Materiem praebet causasque jocorum Omnibus hie idem ? si foeda et scissa lacerna, &c. 14 Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit. " — — — — Agmine facto, Debuerant olim tenues migrasse Quirites. * The Spaniards at this time... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 558 pages
...folio reads — " the poor man's contumely ; " the contumely which the poor man is obliged to endure : Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit. MALONE. 8 — of DESPIS'D love,] The folio reads — of dispriz'd love. STEEVENS. 9 — might his auiETus... | |
| Robert Burton - 1821 - 614 pages
...comedy) friends and strangers, all forsake me. Which is most grievous, poverty makes men ridiculous : Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, Quam quod ridiculos homines facit : they must endure s jests, taunts, flouts, blows of their betters, and take all in good part to get... | |
| Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 630 pages
...sin, this sets forward the interests of religion. And therefore Plutarch said well, " Qui generosfe et regio more instituuntur, primum tacere, deinde...well and handsomely, is education fit for a prince ;" and that is St. Paul's method here : first we are taught how to restrain our tongues, in the foregoing... | |
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