Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 76
Página 8
... things , or in medias res . Abacot , a spurious word which by a remarkable series of blunders has gained a foothold ... thing has any real existence . In Hall's " Chronicles " the word bicocket ( Old Fr. bicoquet , a sort of peaked cap ...
... things , or in medias res . Abacot , a spurious word which by a remarkable series of blunders has gained a foothold ... thing has any real existence . In Hall's " Chronicles " the word bicocket ( Old Fr. bicoquet , a sort of peaked cap ...
Página 13
... thing ? " Action ! " And the third thing ? " Action ! ” The saying has often been imitated . The Marshal de Trivulce , to the query of Louis XI . as to what he needed to make war , promptly replied , " Three things : money , more money ...
... thing ? " Action ! " And the third thing ? " Action ! ” The saying has often been imitated . The Marshal de Trivulce , to the query of Louis XI . as to what he needed to make war , promptly replied , " Three things : money , more money ...
Página 17
... things that belong to prosperity are to be wished , but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired " ( Essays : Of Adversity ) . Aristotle found in education " an ornament in pros- perity and a refuge in adversity ...
... things that belong to prosperity are to be wished , but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired " ( Essays : Of Adversity ) . Aristotle found in education " an ornament in pros- perity and a refuge in adversity ...
Página 25
... thing we wish them to do . There is one thing in particular they are always disposed to give us , and which we are as unwilling to take , namely , advice . " ( Characteristics , No. 88. ) Johnson offers an excellent reason both for the ...
... thing we wish them to do . There is one thing in particular they are always disposed to give us , and which we are as unwilling to take , namely , advice . " ( Characteristics , No. 88. ) Johnson offers an excellent reason both for the ...
Página 27
... thing in nature , a piece of impertinent correspondency , ... a death's - head at your banquet , Agathocles ' pot ... thing in which most of these good people agreed was the one thing in which I differed from them . They were quite sure ...
... thing in nature , a piece of impertinent correspondency , ... a death's - head at your banquet , Agathocles ' pot ... thing in which most of these good people agreed was the one thing in which I differed from them . They were quite sure ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
acrostic admiration advertisements Æsop American anagram ancient appeared asked Ben Jonson bouts-rimés Cæsar called century Charles common cried curious dead death Diogenes Laertius doth Duke Echo England English epigram epitaph essay expression eyes famous father fool France French gentleman give Goethe Greek hand hath head heart heaven Henry honor Horace Walpole horse Hudibras humor John Julius Cæsar king known lady language Latin letter lines literary literature live London Lord macaronic meaning mind modern Molière never Notes and Queries once origin person phrase play Plutarch poem poet political Pope popular proverb Publius Syrus quoted replied says sense Shakespeare slang soul speech stanza story tell term thee things thou thought tion told turn verse Voltaire wife word write wrote young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 739 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Página 711 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Página 579 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too; We've fought the Bear before, and while Britons shall be true The Russians shall not have Constantinople.
Página 659 - Many of them also which used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Página 197 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Página 109 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...
Página 739 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Página 616 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 301 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Página 250 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.