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 pàgines |
Frases i termes més freqüents
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
Passatges populars
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 73 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Pàgina 340 - ... tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 323 - He who fights, and runs away, May live to fight another day.
Pàgina 383 - Was vernünftig ist, das ist wirklich; und was wirklich ist, das ist vernünftig.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.