Proverbs, Chiefly Taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with Explanations; and Further Illustrated by Corresponding Examples from the Spanish, Italian, French & English Languages, 1권T. Egerton, 1814 |
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... born of a woman is of short con- tinuance , and full of trouble ; all his days are sorrow , and his travels grief , his heart also taketh not rest in the night . " And " you may as soon , " Burton says , separate weight from lead , heat ...
... born of a woman is of short con- tinuance , and full of trouble ; all his days are sorrow , and his travels grief , his heart also taketh not rest in the night . " And " you may as soon , " Burton says , separate weight from lead , heat ...
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... the Athenians . Quartă Lunâ nati . Born in the fourth moon . Persons who were peculiarly unfortunate , scarcely any thing succeeding to their minds , were said to be thing ( 30 ) the contrary, was considered as a bird of ill ...
... the Athenians . Quartă Lunâ nati . Born in the fourth moon . Persons who were peculiarly unfortunate , scarcely any thing succeeding to their minds , were said to be thing ( 30 ) the contrary, was considered as a bird of ill ...
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... born , whose labours , though beneficial to the world , were productive of little advantage to himself . The Spaniards say , " En hora mala nace , quien mala fama cobra , " he was born under an unlucky planet , or in an evil hour , who ...
... born , whose labours , though beneficial to the world , were productive of little advantage to himself . The Spaniards say , " En hora mala nace , quien mala fama cobra , " he was born under an unlucky planet , or in an evil hour , who ...
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... born under a fortunate planet , or in a lucky hour . Laureum baculum gesto . I am always armed with a sprig of laurel , was said by persons who had unexpectedly escaped from any threatened danger . The laurel was thought by the ancients ...
... born under a fortunate planet , or in a lucky hour . Laureum baculum gesto . I am always armed with a sprig of laurel , was said by persons who had unexpectedly escaped from any threatened danger . The laurel was thought by the ancients ...
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... born a king or an idiot , he should be at the top , or at the bottom of the wheel of fortune ; at the least , there are men so ambitious , of such high and daring spirits , that they will venture every thing , their fortunes , and their ...
... born a king or an idiot , he should be at the top , or at the bottom of the wheel of fortune ; at the least , there are men so ambitious , of such high and daring spirits , that they will venture every thing , their fortunes , and their ...
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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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281 페이지 - 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.
191 페이지 - 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?
275 페이지 - 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.
191 페이지 - 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.
41 페이지 - 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...
279 페이지 - 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...
71 페이지 - 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.
279 페이지 - ... (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.
144 페이지 - 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.
35 페이지 - 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.