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... Eras . Ad . p . 370 , ' Amazonum cantilena ' ( the song of the Amazons ) , which Erasmus explains as a satirical allusion to the delicate and effeminate men whom the Amazons were wont to celebrate in their songs . In the Promus the word ...
... Eras . Ad . p . 370 , ' Amazonum cantilena ' ( the song of the Amazons ) , which Erasmus explains as a satirical allusion to the delicate and effeminate men whom the Amazons were wont to celebrate in their songs . In the Promus the word ...
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... Eras . Adagia , 359 . beautiful or good is difficult , or hard of attainment . ) These oracles are hardly attained And hardly understood . ( 2 Hen . VI . i . 4. ) Is my Cressid , then , so hard to win ? ( Tr . Cr . iii . 1. ) Study is ...
... Eras . Adagia , 359 . beautiful or good is difficult , or hard of attainment . ) These oracles are hardly attained And hardly understood . ( 2 Hen . VI . i . 4. ) Is my Cressid , then , so hard to win ? ( Tr . Cr . iii . 1. ) Study is ...
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... Eras . Ad . 241 ; Martial , 457. ) Item . - No knight of this order shall give out what gracious words the Prince hath given him . Contrary to the late inhibition of selling smoke . ( Gesta . Graym . ) Sweet smoke of rhetoric ...
... Eras . Ad . 241 ; Martial , 457. ) Item . - No knight of this order shall give out what gracious words the Prince hath given him . Contrary to the late inhibition of selling smoke . ( Gesta . Graym . ) Sweet smoke of rhetoric ...
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... darkling . ( Lear , i . 4. ) 409. Vita salillum . ( Life is a little salt cellar.- from Eras . Adag . p . 1046 , where , quoting Plautus , Erasmus uses the expression , ' Salillum animæ , ' 194 FOL . 91 . MISCELLANEOUS .
... darkling . ( Lear , i . 4. ) 409. Vita salillum . ( Life is a little salt cellar.- from Eras . Adag . p . 1046 , where , quoting Plautus , Erasmus uses the expression , ' Salillum animæ , ' 194 FOL . 91 . MISCELLANEOUS .
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... Eras . Adagia , 122. ( The sources of great rivers are navigable . i.e. A little coming from a great man outweighs the whole merits of smaller men . ) You are the fount that makes small brooks to flow . Now stops the spring ; my sea ...
... Eras . Adagia , 122. ( The sources of great rivers are navigable . i.e. A little coming from a great man outweighs the whole merits of smaller men . ) You are the fount that makes small brooks to flow . Now stops the spring ; my sea ...
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The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594 ... Mrs. Henry Pott Visualização completa - 1883 |
The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594 ... Mrs. Henry Pott,Francis Bacon Visualização completa - 1883 |
The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594 ... Mrs. Henry Pott Visualização completa - 1883 |
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Adagia Advt All's appear authors Bacon Ben Jonson better Cæs Cæsar Collier's text Compare Cymb death dost doth ears Erasmus essay eyes fear Folio fool forms fortune Francis Bacon friends Gentlemen of Verona give Good-morrow Good-night grace grief hast hath heart heaven Heywood's honour idea instance John King Kins Latin Lear lord M. M. ii Macb mind nature never noble Noble Kinsmen Notes of Expressions Ovid passages plays Poems Promus entries Promus notes prose quæ quod quotations Quoted Rich Romeo and Juliet salutation seems Shakespeare similes Sir Thomas Heywood Sonnet soul speak Spedding speech sweet Temp thee thine things thou art thought Toby Matthew tongue truth turns of expression VIII Virg virtue Vulgate words writings
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Página 485 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all.
Página 94 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Página 298 - God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day ; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Página 427 - Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety : other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry, Where most she satisfies ; for vilest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Página 433 - O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...
Página 188 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — to thine own self be true ; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Página 104 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty, guilty!
Página 210 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Página 463 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give, Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; And vice sometimes by action dignified.