Proverbs, Chiefly Taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with Explanations; and Further Illustrated by Corresponding Examples from the Spanish, Italian, French & English Languages, Volumen 1T. Egerton, 1814 |
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... tulerit Vitulum , illa potest . " Who has been used to carry a calf , may in time carry an ox . " The adage is said to have taken its rise from the story of a woman who who took delight in nursing and carrying about with her ( 48 )
... tulerit Vitulum , illa potest . " Who has been used to carry a calf , may in time carry an ox . " The adage is said to have taken its rise from the story of a woman who who took delight in nursing and carrying about with her ( 48 )
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... story of Milo the Crotonian , who was said , with great ease to take up an ox , and carry it on his shoulders ; but who perished miserably , " Wedged in the oak which he strove to rend . " It may be used to shew the force of habit or ...
... story of Milo the Crotonian , who was said , with great ease to take up an ox , and carry it on his shoulders ; but who perished miserably , " Wedged in the oak which he strove to rend . " It may be used to shew the force of habit or ...
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... what think you of his head - piece ? is he proper for the office of ambassador ? Sir , said Bacon , tall men are " Sir like houses of four or five stories , wherein commonly like ( 54 ) them to others." This is no bad model ...
... what think you of his head - piece ? is he proper for the office of ambassador ? Sir , said Bacon , tall men are " Sir like houses of four or five stories , wherein commonly like ( 54 ) them to others." This is no bad model ...
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like houses of four or five stories , wherein commonly the uppermost room is worst fur- nished . " And Burton says , that " commonly your vast bodies and fine features are sottish , dull , and heavy spirits . " Yet , notwithstanding ...
like houses of four or five stories , wherein commonly the uppermost room is worst fur- nished . " And Burton says , that " commonly your vast bodies and fine features are sottish , dull , and heavy spirits . " Yet , notwithstanding ...
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... story , as giving origin to the latter adage . Demosthenes observing , that the judges before whom he was pleading , paid no attention to what he was saying , but were discoursing on matters that had no relation to the subject before ...
... story , as giving origin to the latter adage . Demosthenes observing , that the judges before whom he was pleading , paid no attention to what he was saying , but were discoursing on matters that had no relation to the subject before ...
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acquired adage ADAGIA Æsop Amyclas ancients Antisthenes apothegm applied to persons attempting Augustus Cæsar bear become better bird Cæsar censure Cicero cure danger death Demosthenes disgrace dispositions doth ears endeavour Epictetus Erasmus escape esteemed evil expected eyes fall fame favour fear follies fool fortune French frequently friends give hand hath hear Hence honour horse intimate Jupiter Juvenal king la boca labour live Lord Verulam mala malè manner Marc Anthony master means ment mind misery misfortune neighbours never nihil observed obtained occasion opinion ourselves perhaps Philip of Macedon phrase physician Plautus pleasure Plutarch poet possess proverb punishment quæ quam quid quod racter rich Romans sense servants shew Spaniards say speak story suffer Syloson tain taken tell thee thing thou thought tion told tongue vice wise young
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Página 281 - Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Página 191 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Página 275 - 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.
Página 191 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 41 - But where to find that happiest spot below Who can direct, when all pretend to know ? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own ; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease...
Página 279 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below...
Página 71 - STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed; Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Página 279 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Página 144 - It happened at Athens, during a public representation of some play exhibited in honour of the commonwealth, that an old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to his age and quality. Many of the young gentlemen who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in, made signs to him that they would accommodate him if he came where they sat.
Página 35 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.