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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... sayings which , perhaps better than anything else , illustrate a nation's peculiar habit of thought . It will , doubtless , be interesting to many to find the same or a similar proverb possessed by many nations , a fact which may well ...
... sayings which , perhaps better than anything else , illustrate a nation's peculiar habit of thought . It will , doubtless , be interesting to many to find the same or a similar proverb possessed by many nations , a fact which may well ...
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... sayings we owe to the Greek writers . Many of these are well known in a Latin or English dress . For instance , such popular sayings as : " Call a spade a spade ! " " Speak no ill of the dead ! " " Nothing in excess ! " " Those whom the ...
... sayings we owe to the Greek writers . Many of these are well known in a Latin or English dress . For instance , such popular sayings as : " Call a spade a spade ! " " Speak no ill of the dead ! " " Nothing in excess ! " " Those whom the ...
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... sayings , both for the knowledge of human nature they show and for their terseness of expression , must commend themselves to every age . The apothegms of Vauvenargues are especially noteworthy on account of their loftiness of thought ...
... sayings , both for the knowledge of human nature they show and for their terseness of expression , must commend themselves to every age . The apothegms of Vauvenargues are especially noteworthy on account of their loftiness of thought ...
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... sayings will be difficult to destroy . This section owes much to Büchmann's Geflügelte Worte , wherein are collected the " winged words " taken German . from the literatures of various countries . The German portion of that book is , as ...
... sayings will be difficult to destroy . This section owes much to Büchmann's Geflügelte Worte , wherein are collected the " winged words " taken German . from the literatures of various countries . The German portion of that book is , as ...
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... sayings of this kind - the refranes , adagios , and proverbios - hold in the estimation of the people of Spain . If France may be said to be the land of the bon mot , assuredly Spain is the country of proverbs . Probably no nation ...
... sayings of this kind - the refranes , adagios , and proverbios - hold in the estimation of the people of Spain . If France may be said to be the land of the bon mot , assuredly Spain is the country of proverbs . Probably no nation ...
Expressions et termes fréquents
amigo amor autres avoir better bien bird bonne Bruyère c'est casa Cicero cœur Dante death deux Dieu Dios être Euripides evil eyes faire fait faut femme fool fortune French give Goethe grand Greek 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 Metastasio mieux mind Molière monde mort Motto n'est never nihil omnia one's Ovid Perez peut poco poet prend Publius Syrus qu'il qu'on qu'un quæ quam quod rien Rochefoucauld Roman saying semper Simonides of Ceos Sophocles souvent speak 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
Fréquemment cités
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.