Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1909 - 1104 páginas |
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... proverb is varied by the alternatives , " Words show the wit of a man , but actions his meaning ; " " Saying and not ... ( Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit ) ; in Jules Simon , " In the eyes of God there is not a prayer which is worth a good ...
... proverb is varied by the alternatives , " Words show the wit of a man , but actions his meaning ; " " Saying and not ... ( Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit ) ; in Jules Simon , " In the eyes of God there is not a prayer which is worth a good ...
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... proverb then . In English litera- ture its earliest recorded appearance is in a poem by Richard Rolle de Ham- pole ... proverbs , adds a second couplet which contains ar answer to the first , -i.e . Upstart [ upstarted ] a churl and ...
... proverb then . In English litera- ture its earliest recorded appearance is in a poem by Richard Rolle de Ham- pole ... proverbs , adds a second couplet which contains ar answer to the first , -i.e . Upstart [ upstarted ] a churl and ...
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... proverb , whose exact counterpart is found in the French " Battre le chien devant le lion , " meaning to punish an inferior person in the presence and to the terror of a great one.— Cotgrave's French Dictionary , s . v . Battre . And ...
... proverb , whose exact counterpart is found in the French " Battre le chien devant le lion , " meaning to punish an inferior person in the presence and to the terror of a great one.— Cotgrave's French Dictionary , s . v . Battre . And ...
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... proverb antedates him . The analogous French saying is " Un tiens vaut deux tu l'auras . " Bird . A little bird told me . An almost universal adage , based on the popular idea that this apparently ubiquitous wanderer , from the vantage ...
... proverb antedates him . The analogous French saying is " Un tiens vaut deux tu l'auras . " Bird . A little bird told me . An almost universal adage , based on the popular idea that this apparently ubiquitous wanderer , from the vantage ...
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... Proverbs " ( 1672 ) , which was probably in common use long before . Blood stands for traceable , admitted ... proverb may also allude to the spiritual relationship which , according to the Roman Catholic Church , is created ...
... Proverbs " ( 1672 ) , which was probably in common use long before . Blood stands for traceable , admitted ... proverb may also allude to the spiritual relationship which , according to the Roman Catholic Church , is created ...
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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 Lord Byron 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
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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 208 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools...
Página 230 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Página 125 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
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 258 - Yet must I not give nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion ; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, Such as thine are, and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Página 713 - Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
Página 739 - Sweet Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die.
Página 741 - 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. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Página 637 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.