Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 páginas |
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... phrase, generally with allusion to the custom of beginning a meal with eggs, in this case forming the first part of the phrase ab ovo usque ad ma/a, from the egg to the apples, i.e., from beginning to end ; but sometimes the allusion is ...
... phrase, generally with allusion to the custom of beginning a meal with eggs, in this case forming the first part of the phrase ab ovo usque ad ma/a, from the egg to the apples, i.e., from beginning to end ; but sometimes the allusion is ...
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... phrase dates back to Sidney's " Arcadia," Book I. : " Between these two persons [Dametas and Miso], who never agreed in any humor but in disagreeing, is issued forth Mistress Mopsa, a fit woman to partake of both their perfections ...
... phrase dates back to Sidney's " Arcadia," Book I. : " Between these two persons [Dametas and Miso], who never agreed in any humor but in disagreeing, is issued forth Mistress Mopsa, a fit woman to partake of both their perfections ...
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... phrase occurs as a quotation in Bacon's " Advancement of Learning," book i. (1605). Bacon explains it thus : " These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by ...
... phrase occurs as a quotation in Bacon's " Advancement of Learning," book i. (1605). Bacon explains it thus : " These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by ...
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... phrase " L'appetit vient en mangeant" (** Appetite comes in eating"). The context is worth quoting : "The stone called asbestos is not more inextinguishable than is the thirst of which I am the parent. Appetite comes with eating, said ...
... phrase " L'appetit vient en mangeant" (** Appetite comes in eating"). The context is worth quoting : "The stone called asbestos is not more inextinguishable than is the thirst of which I am the parent. Appetite comes with eating, said ...
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... phrase appears. Perhaps the derivation suggested in Barrere and Leland's " Slang Dictionary" is the true one : "Order is an old word for a row, and a properly-made apple-pie had, of old, always an order or row of regularly-cut turrets ...
... phrase appears. Perhaps the derivation suggested in Barrere and Leland's " Slang Dictionary" is the true one : "Order is an old word for a row, and a properly-made apple-pie had, of old, always an order or row of regularly-cut turrets ...
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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 740 - 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 282 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
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. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd...
Página 423 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
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 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.
Página 417 - 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 317 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Página 595 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.