Proverbs, Chiefly Taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with Explanations; and Further Illustrated by Corresponding Examples from the Spanish, Italian, French & English Languages, 第 1 卷T. Egerton, 1814 |
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... poets , orators , and artisans , who are gene- rally as much enamoured with their own pro- ductions , as lovers are ... poet , or orator , Cicero says , who thought any other superior to himself in his art , nor any lover who did not ...
... poets , orators , and artisans , who are gene- rally as much enamoured with their own pro- ductions , as lovers are ... poet , or orator , Cicero says , who thought any other superior to himself in his art , nor any lover who did not ...
第 116 頁
... expected to be also a poet , or a man skilled in one art , to be equally expert in another . The same sentiment is contained in Unus Unus Vir , nullus Vir . From one man unaided ( 116 ) Ne Hercules quidem adversus duos. ...
... expected to be also a poet , or a man skilled in one art , to be equally expert in another . The same sentiment is contained in Unus Unus Vir , nullus Vir . From one man unaided ( 116 ) Ne Hercules quidem adversus duos. ...
第 139 頁
... Poet says , two wallets , the one filled with the errors of our neighbours , the other with our own . That containing the errors of our neighbours , hangs to our breasts , but that filled with our own , rests on our backs . Hence it is ...
... Poet says , two wallets , the one filled with the errors of our neighbours , the other with our own . That containing the errors of our neighbours , hangs to our breasts , but that filled with our own , rests on our backs . Hence it is ...
第 151 頁
... poet , " " Tis better , Sir , I should you now displease , Than by complying , risque my future ease . " Duabus sedere Sellis . " Avoir le cul entre deux selles , " " between two stools we ofttimes come to the ground . ” Irresolute ...
... poet , " " Tis better , Sir , I should you now displease , Than by complying , risque my future ease . " Duabus sedere Sellis . " Avoir le cul entre deux selles , " " between two stools we ofttimes come to the ground . ” Irresolute ...
第 163 頁
... poet Simonides , seeing all the passengers in a vessel in which he was sailing , and which was in danger of sinking , collecting their valuables , said , " Omnia mea mecum porto , " I carry all my valuables about me , let me but escape ...
... poet Simonides , seeing all the passengers in a vessel in which he was sailing , and which was in danger of sinking , collecting their valuables , said , " Omnia mea mecum porto , " I carry all my valuables about me , let me but escape ...
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第 281 頁 - 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.
第 191 頁 - 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?
第 275 頁 - 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.
第 191 頁 - 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.
第 41 頁 - 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...
第 279 頁 - 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...
第 71 頁 - 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.
第 279 頁 - ... (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.
第 144 頁 - 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.
第 35 頁 - 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.